Oyster Festival

As the Oyster festival approaches, it is with an air of apprehensive and melancholic gloom that I write these words. Traditionally the last thing to happen in Galway until the next season, one wonders whether or not we will all still be here come the next season. Furthermore, I wonder also if the summer season is getting so short that it can adequately fit into the last two weeks of of July and the first week of August.

I do remember (as many others will also remember) went it was with Paddy's day all started and remained that way until the weekend of the Oyster Festival.

But alas!

Now they are gone. Our helicon days.

Let us hope that October and November are not all doom and gloom (with sideways rain and perpendicular wind).

Let us also hope the rent comes down.

But could Cava move elsewhere?

No doubt.

But hopefully it will not come to this.

Jp.