2º trip: The Ploughing

 

IRISH BLOG: THE PLOUGHING COMPETITION.

      The Ploughing Compitition, or Ploughing for short, is a tournament of, you guessed it, ploughing. It took place far from us, like an hour train journey.

       There were so many tractor all over the place. But altough the ploughing itself could have been cool, we went because all the shops that they set up at the competition. And, lucky us! We had the opportunity to be there, beacuse its only once a year. Moreover, we had the greatest weather that we could have had. Usually, the place its very muddy due to all the rain. But while we were there, the previous days were really sunny, so the event was really enjoyable.

       The competition normally has around 60.000 people that go, mainly for the shops. The trick to atract so many people are the prices and the free samples. The clearest example is O´neails. O´neails its a hurling shop, the biggest in Ireland. The usual prices are more or less, 50 euros per jacket. Nevertheless, at the ploughing, they were at 35 euros. The funny part is, while all our irish parners were making the best out of all the deals, we were complaining about the stupidly high prices in Ireland.