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Alfred O’Neill
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Donald’s buggy ride & stories make any day perfect at the Gap of Dunloe. (County Kerry)
A magic buggy ride in the Gap of Dunloe, county Kerry, Ireland. Humor, wild tales, wild wind. Truly by the roadside.
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Touring Beara for 8 Days. And I am sure I saw hardly any of it!
…and behind me the jagged schist mountains.
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A glorious pastoral hideaway: An Doras Bui shepherds’ hut in the Sperrin Mountains
Walking the lane near An Doras Bui can be beautiful — and with the tight curves and no dies, a bit…challenging.
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Escape the cacophony of Rome for Ostia Antica: Once Rome’s mighty port, open, preserved and off the beaten track.
Ostia Antica. Rome is overwhelming in its magnificence but let’s admit it, it is just as overwhelming a city because of the tourist hordes. Everyone wants a piece of the magnificent beauty and history. Is there even an off-season? But imagine a place of intact frescoes, ornate mosaics, tall marble columns, buildings and avenues free…
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Madrid is about the art. The art of urban living.
Never having been to Madrid, we did some planning but decided to approach the city the big euro city like an empty canvas we would paint exp[eeiences on. But quickly, and mostly due to the not-too-central fabulous AirBnB we stayed at, the city took on the proper mix of off-season tourism and exploring our neighborhood…
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Burger as art form to the palate. Welcome to Flipside, Sligo.
Winner of the Best Burger in Ireland, 2021 is a high honor, especially when Flipside Burger Bar is competing with every pub in the land, plus many finer restaurants, and has only been open since 2018! While food awards are great for business and righteous recognition of hard work and passion, Flipside is almost like…
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The Village of the Dead is all about the living. Slievemore, Achill Island.
Achill Island, Ireland. Such a stunningly beautiful place to experience such profound sadness.Of all the fraught tales of Ireland, none gets near the collective pain of the Potato Famine, the Great Hunger, several names for one massive tragedy: one million people died, one million left for the US. Done by 1851 for the most part,…
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Achill Island, Ireland: Croghaun mountain and the (very) Wild Atlantic Way.
For a wanderer, everything begins and ends with the humans you meet. This tale begins with Jon Brannen, of the same named pub and BnB in Newport, county Mayo, Ireland. He was a hiker, a gruff and burly man who wore his kindness in his words. I was staying at his place and with a…
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Stories of being lost can often be about being found.
Stories of being lost can often be about being found. I got lost in the Sperrin Mountains of N Ireland and yet found a tale of kindness and mirth with one Thomas McClary. Plan was to go to the O’Neill family farm for lunch with Annie and Niall (ny-ale); I had last been in 2010.…
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