2010, January: the road to Molly Malone's

[El Gordo]

You needen´t worry about the black matter, S. I think there is still Guinness there. Anyway, I´ll have to tell them to get a lot of kegs for that long weekend. However, I find Burana, new Molly Malone´s,too noisy.

The bar itself is of little consequence. I think others have expressed a similar opinion re: noisy patrons (though I feel this is a case of pots snd kettles). Funny how after a few hours that problem seems to go away ...

The main issue is this. There are several bars in Almeria that serve Guinness. Most of them use that odd can/ tablet arrangement which, to be honest, is worse than drinking fizzy lager. If there's another bar in the locale that serves Black Gold from a keg I'd be more than happy to give it a go. Otherwise might I respectfully recommend headphones/ ear muffs?

I'm quite prepared to switch to Rioja if that makes life easier. Hic.

Agree with all of that.

Not sure what sort of "noisy" the bar has become, but if that means it's become disco-ey, then I suggest we find somewhere else.

I've done a Google trawl without immediately finding an alternative. No other Irish bars anyway. Antonio -- I appreciate you're not an expert on bars in the town, but are you aware of any other possibilities?

The one place I wondered about was that bar we went to in 2006, the second year we were there, when it was just Sweder and SP and me. We went to a bar which I think was not too far from the hotel. Quite a biggish place, very busy... they were showing football... fairly young clientele.... no idea if they had draught Guinness - probably not... we met a runner you knew who had just run the half in 1:08. (He had two bottles of beer then went home to bed -- let that be a lesson to us all...). Do you recall the place I'm thinking of? It may be that I've exaggerated the memory but it seemed quite a decent place.

Molly's has become a tradition but I have no particular affiliation to the place. In fact, I feel pretty neutral towards it. A bit the same with Guinness actually

So I'm happy to branch out. There must be some alternatives.