Get away with yourself
As the summer finally begins to fade and the dark nights of winter start to creep in, many of us look for a last chance to get an away break before the build-up for Christmas begins. Jackie Hayden reviews some of the options countrywide.
Jackie Hayden, 23 Oct 2006
Thankfully, these days, no matter where you go there’s bound to something going on around which you can organise your visit. Or you may merely want to check out the nightlife in a different environment from that which you normally enjoy.
So if you want to start at the top of the map you can choose to savour the various delights of the Belfast Festival at Queens University from October 19, before you head over to Derry for the Banks of The Foyle Festival on October 24.
One of the major events also coming up is the Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork over the October bank holiday weekend. This is always a major attraction, and the plethora on fringe events means you don’t have to be a jazz buff to enjoy the atmosphere and the sideshows. Cork also has many fine restaurants to savour, including Isaacs in MacCurtain Street and Toddies down the road in Kinsale or you could opt to visit for the Fastnet Rally event at Skibbereen.
Time was when people travelled from all over the country to the big cities to experience the colour and excitement of a nightclub. Now, this trend is being reversed, with folks from the cities going to distant towns to enjoy the unique nightlife on offer, and Letterkenny in Co Donegal is one popular destination.
Milan Nightclub has made Letterkenny’s club scene as vibrant as you’d expect in a big city anywhere. The open plan club, split over three levels, offers a fresh funky mix of music every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. This Donegal club is well worth a visit if you want to go somewhere that’s sophisticated in both its style and the coolness of the crowd.
At Milan you can experience the best in up-front house music to a solid r&b and hip hop set with a few tasty anthems thrown in. But it pays to expect the unexpected when the venue hosts Letterkenny’s biggest party every Saturday night, with Donegal’s top DJs plus some surprising twists. Where else would you get performance artists, such as pyromancers on stilts!) accompanying the regular club dancers and their fresh routines. The upstairs Havana Bar is new and has an all-important smoking room. Milan and Havana go “large” every Sunday night with club anthems in the Main Room and house classics in Havana, but let’s not forget the Student specials every Wednesday.
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