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Top Attractions in Nice: Food, Art, and Culture
This city bubbles over with a sprit of fun. I fell in love with Nice, and didn’t mean to. After a week in Provence, the last thing I was in the mood for was a city. But it was so relaxing, delightful, colorful, friendly, complex, cultured, relaxing, busy, that I extended a three day visit…
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Best of Ireland: Beara.
The Irish will praise Beara, most of which lies in County Cork on the southwestern tip of the island, as one of the most beautiful places on the Island. Given the expanse of Nature’s beauty here, that is both a great compliment and insight to the Irish tastes. Ireland is a cascade of nature’s beauty,…
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Meet Ireland’s brilliant furniture designer, Adrian Duyn. Let’s talk Kintsuki! (Kenmare, Ireland).
Before arriving in Joop and Adrian Duyn’s Joop Duyn & Sons workshop in Kenmare, Ireland, I had seen the expansive and exquisite furniture designs on their website. So I was prepared to be impressed. Jopp Duyn began this woodworking business 40 years ago, with Adrian’s presence adding the “Sons” some years later. Meeting the father…
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Visiting N. Ireland and you missed the Shepherd’s Hut of the Sperrin Mtns?
Justine says it best: “At the Shepherds Hut, you just feel like you’re part of nature. There’s almost a mystical feeling about it to me. And that’s what’s so hard to convey in social media, is that it’s not just the views. It’s not just the hot tub. There’s an actual mystical beauty to it…
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Can you count the many shades of green? Give up. (Gleninchaquin Park, County Kerry.)
Stories tell us that the Goddess Eiru is the body of the island and thus the people are the caretakers of her body and soul. And with such abundance and gift of beauty, how could one not? Their relationship with the land is astonishingly strong. Such is Ireland. Few places represent this astounding beauty of…
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Now why would Nat’l Geographic call the Sperrin’s one of the most beautiful mountain ranges on Earth?
When you see a place so stunning, yet simple in its beauty, you never forget it. So, Instead of me writing about the Sperrin Mountains of Northern Ireland, U.K., let me show you what I saw. National Geographic, as always, was so damned right.
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