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Best of Ireland: Achill Island.
Achill Island; despite having visited Ireland so many times, for some reason, no one ever mentioned going to Achill Island. I suspect it is an Irish secret so they can have some fun without the tourists. Yet, the cliffs are higher than Moher, the Keel and Keem strand are stunning beaches, it is far less…
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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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Let Irish history come alive with the passion & authenticity of Davy Holden (Kilkenny).
Davy Holden has just entered his 30’s but already owns the wisdom of someone who understands his country’s history form a very human and authentic place.
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What makes a truly great hotel? Just go have a drink.(Fabio and the El Palace of Barcelona).
The magnificence of any grand hotel is about the people. El Palace of Barcelona, Spain.
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Stories of being lost and found. Michael, my savior in the wilds of of the Sperrin Mountains, N. Ireland.
The magnificent Sperrin Mountains of Northern Ireland and getting lost, then delightfully found.
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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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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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The magic of Egnazia: the lost town and the museum of the ancients outside of Monopli, Puglia.
In Puglia, on the southeastern coast of Italy, near the vacation town of Monopoli, was the oddest, almost ignored and yet gem of a museum and ancient archaeological town site called Engazia, dating back to pre-Roman Bronze Age period when the Greeks colonized the Eastern coast of Italy. We love ancient places; they teach so…
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