Our friends from Krvavec (Slovenia) visit next week

By jcunning71 on 03/07/2015

We have made many friends and contacts through our trips to the FIBA U13 tournament in Ardres over the years but none better than Damjan Korosec and his Krvavec club from Slovenia. They will visit Ireland next week for the second time. They came in 2008 and our U17’s paid a return visit last October….

They are a fun loving bunch from a country with a great love of basketball and their traditional accordion players provide a wonderful atmosphere at their games. In a trip that would seem like total madness to the “Ryanair loving Irish”, 43 of them boarded a bus that left Cerklje this (Thursday) morning on a 5000 km round trip, taking in Brussels, Ardres, Calais, Dover, Stonehenge, Cardiff, Pembroke, Rosslare, Cork and Killarney on their way here….. and it was 30 degrees in Slovenia 🙂

Their Trip:

Their schedule in Ireland (subject to change) is as follows:

Sun, June 7^th, arrive Rosslare @ 6,45am, drive to Cork via Rock of Cashel
Sun, June 7^th , tour Cork city and play 3 games in Neptune @ 3-6pm, then travel to Killarney to stay overnight
Mon, July 8^th , sightseeing around Killarney (possibly Ring of Kerry) and then travel to Moycullen
Tues, July 9^th, Tour of Galway city/Salthill or Connemara depending on the weather 🙂
Tues, July 9^th, Games vs Moycullen in Kingfisher NUIG from 4.30pm to 8pm (Order, U12, U17, Senior) followed by dinner in the Forge with some traditional music (Irish and Slovenian) after… all welcome..
Weds, July 10^th, They will tour Connemara/Mayo or Galway City/Salthill depending on weather again and then travel to see Moycullen Minors play An Ceathru Rua in Spiddal @ 7.30pm
Thurs, July 11th, Depart for Dublin where they will do some further sightseeing and then will play two games against Kubs before departing on the overnight ferry to Holyhead