{"id":2109,"date":"2016-08-09T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T02:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rira.compub.com\/las-vegas\/?p=2109"},"modified":"2017-03-27T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T20:26:37","slug":"guide-craic-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/pub-talk\/guide-craic-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyril&#8217;s essential guide to the Craic Tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Cyril Francis Martin Kenny from Kilkenny and every year I go on a journey.<\/p>\n<p>Not just any journey, a journey with our customers and staff on a mission to find the real \u2018craic\u2019 in Ireland and to find out what it really means to be Irish. What is the \u2018craic\u2019 you might ask and that my friend is a very good question, to which there is no real answer.<\/p>\n<p>It is something you have to experience first hand and what better way than on an unforgettable 5 day trip to Ireland with me, the official R\u00ed R\u00e1 Pub Ambassador. It has taken a lot of night\u2019s out, pint drinking and pub crawling to actually earn this title so you are in good hands. I guarantee the craic will be mighty, the banter will be flowing and the hangovers legendary. Over breakfast we will recant the fun we had the night before, be reminded of the great moments we had forgotten and get ready for another day of adventure.<\/p>\n<p>I have put together some little hints and tips ahead of our next journey and if you remember these you will be golden!!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To us Irish, drinking is a sacred pastime. In other words, the Irish take their drinking very, very seriously.<\/li>\n<li>You may find yourself in a pub at least once a day. OK, more like twice a day or perhaps all day\u2026 don\u2019t worry that\u2019s normal.<\/li>\n<li>On entering a pub, don\u2019t wait to be seated, you will be left waiting.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your hands off the Guinness until the bartender hands it to you. The \u201cperfect pour\u201d is a tradition in Ireland, consisting of a two part pour.<\/li>\n<li>If someone buys you a drink, buy them one back.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t attempt to pay for one drink on a credit card.<\/li>\n<li>Opening a tab can be done, but we\u2019d rather not.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re really drunk, you\u2019re \u201clocked\u201d or \u201clangered.\u201d If you\u2019re under the table, the locals will say you\u2019re \u201cossified,\u201d \u201cparalytic,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes it\u2019s best to forego the booze, and have a \u201cmineral\u201d (a soft drink).<\/li>\n<li>Us Irish will talk to anyone, if you don\u2019t know what to talk about, the preferred topic of conversation in such situations\u00a0is often the weather \u2013 there is always plenty to discuss when it comes to Ireland\u2019s weather!<\/li>\n<li>Do not greet people with \u201cTop of the morning\u201d or say goodbye to them with \u201cMay the road rise to meet you\u201d! Nobody Irish outside of a bad movie has ever said any of these things.<\/li>\n<li>Socks and sandals don\u2019t do it \u2026 you will stand out like a sore thumb.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the chipper and order a battered sausage\u2026 you will not be disappointed!<\/li>\n<li>The usual way to tell the difference between winter and summer in Ireland is to measure the temperature of the rain.<\/li>\n<li>The use of \u201cthe F word\u201d is also very common in public, it\u2019s even often used in a friendly way, it\u2019s just a very unfortunate national habit.<\/li>\n<li>If you wake up on a morning and can\u2019t remember what happened the night before then it is a sign of a great night out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyril gives some sage-like advice about what to expect on the legendary annual R\u00ed R\u00e1 Craic Tour of Ireland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,13],"tags":[50,49,35,48,47],"class_list":["post-2109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff","category-stories","tag-craic-tour","tag-cyril","tag-irish","tag-las-vegas","tag-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2109\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rira.com\/las-vegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}