Galway

Salthill Promenade (The Prom)

The one walk that explains Galway's relationship with the Atlantic — flat, free, forty minutes each way, and the sunset is genuinely worth timing your evening around.

St Nicholas' Collegiate Church

The largest medieval parish church still in use in Ireland, free to walk into, and almost everyone on Quay Street walks straight past it.

Blackrock Diving Tower

A free public diving tower that a whole city has used daily for seventy years. Jump if you're brave; if not, the watching is the attraction.

McDonagh's

The best fish and chips in a city that takes them more seriously than Dublin does, in the room that's been doing it since 1902.

Aniar

Aniar

The only Michelin star in the west of Ireland, and it spends it on seaweed, ferments and wild game rather than on imported luxury. Book weeks ahead.

Kai

Kai Cafe + Restaurant

The rare restaurant that is both the city's most decorated all-rounder and a place you can eat at for €20 at lunchtime if you're willing to queue.

Tigh Neachtain

Galway's defining pub interior — a maze of snugs from 1894 with the session in the window — and it has stayed good despite being on every postcard.

O'Connor's Famous Pub

The most photogenic old pub in Galway with the music to justify it — as long as you accept you'll be sharing it with everyone else who saw the video.

The Crane Bar

The Crane Bar

Galway's most consistently good trad, seven nights a week, with an upstairs listening room where people actually stop talking.