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Hello and welcome to the We Should Move Here Travels podcast.
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My name is Brittany.
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I'm Josh
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and we are your hosts.
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Today we are gonna be talking about Clifden and the Lough Rynn Castle.
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yeah, A couple amazing stops on our Ireland adventure and we've been home for a couple weeks now recording, and I miss them both already.
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Yeah, me too.
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These stops were truly amazing.
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After Teelin, we stopped at the Lough Rynn Castle.
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Mm-hmm.
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And that was absolutely incredible.
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I wish we could have stayed longer, but it was pretty expensive to stay there just for the night.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I'm glad we splurged a little bit and did it because staying in a castle just like hits a little different than anywhere else.
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I know sometimes I act like I'm a princess, but like I truly felt like a princess.
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This was one of your wishlist items for Ireland was staying in a castle?
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Yeah.
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Well, we got to do it in Scotland.
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Well, it was in Abbey, but it was basically a freaking castle, I just really appreciated that time in Scotland and I wanted to do it again.
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So that was on my wishlist.
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Yeah.
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If I'm being honest, this wasn't quite the level of the Abbey, I think the Abbey, the setting Just the small town around it.
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Scotland in general just had a little more to it, but this castle was still amazing.
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If you're looking for a place to stay
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Yeah.
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For a night or a couple nights if you have the opportunity to.
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Yeah.
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Well, the Abbey in Scotland was right on Loch Ness, and it was, more of like an Airbnb situation.
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Mm-hmm.
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Whereas this was a castle that was converted into a hotel.
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Yeah.
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so it was really nice though.
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the dinner, the accommodation, the bar area, everything was so beautiful and so delicious.
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I really appreciated the time here.
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From the moment we stepped on the grounds, we were greeted by the staff who were very helpful.
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We went to our room, which was like you said, stunning, comfortable, heated bathroom floor.
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Yeah.
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Felt like true royalty.
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With that,
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we were living the life we were
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for the less than 24 hours we were there.
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before dinner, we had some.
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Gin and tonics at the bar area?
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Yeah, and like the fireplace bar room, which was super nice.
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I will say this is one of the only times on this whole trip we got a little turned up.
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I mean, we had the gin and tonics.
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We had wine at dinner, which we paired with each course of the meal.
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And then we had a Guinness after dinner.
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So we were feeling pretty good at the end of the night.
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But like you said, it was wonderful.
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Dinner was delicious.
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What did we have for dinner there?
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so we had a couple different courses to start.
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We had a amuse bouch, We had a sliced carrot puree with sliced carrot on top.
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that was really nice.
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And then a lemon sorbet to cleanse the palette after that.
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And then for our appetizer, we had a seared Atlantic tuna, which was delicious.
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Ugh.
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I loved it.
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It was so good.
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the outside was seared, the middle was raw.
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It was really, really good.
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And then for dinner, we had the roasted chicken supreme and the beef filet, which again, delicious.
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absolutely loved the roasted chicken.
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I would highly recommend that dish.
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And then for dessert, we had the chocolate fondant and rhubarb mousse.
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I remember really loving the chocolate fondant, which was like a chocolate lava cake basically.
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And I love anything chocolate, so it was so good though.
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this whole meal it was super fancy.
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a place where you knew that you were gonna be taken care of.
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a place where I kind of felt like out of place a little bit, which I love putting myself in those situations.
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Right.
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Um, just'cause they don't happen very often and sometimes it's fun to act like, I don't know, royalty.
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Mm-hmm.
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But that does not mean that you're not nice to your servers when you're acting like royalty because the server was incredible.
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She had just, moved from, where did she move from?
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I wanna say Spain.
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Oh yes.
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It was Spain.
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so she was from Spain and she was doing like a, a work visa
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mm-hmm.
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Kind of thing.
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And we got to know her a little bit.
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She was so kind, so sweet.
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Really nice.
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And we've seen that on a lot of our trips now since we started the podcast where young adults come from many different countries to do a holiday work visa or something similar and just save up money, explore.
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Yeah.
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And then once they've had their fun or they're ready to move on to the next thing, they go somewhere else or they go back home.
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So she said, I, I think she said she was gonna try to be going to Canada next, if I remember correctly too.
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Yeah.
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She also said she wanted to come to the States and we were like, maybe hold off until we get a different administration.
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Wait till everything cools down a little bit.
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Yeah.
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Because right now like immigration, no way.
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I would never recommend somebody from another country to move here right now.
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Well, it's just unfortunate'cause you're not a hundred percent sure if you know you're gonna be welcomed with open arms.
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Yeah.
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Even if you come about legally.
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Yeah.
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So unfortunate.
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But regardless, staff was fantastic, really great place to stay.
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The next morning we woke up and we took a walk around the grounds.
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Mm-hmm.
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In the gardens along the lake.
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Wonderful.
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It was so beautiful.
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No, it was stunning.
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I really appreciated that walk.
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so we took a walk around the walled gardens.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then we walked around the rest of the grounds.
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Mm-hmm.
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And there was, I remember this cute little bridge that I was like, can we walk on that?
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Because it looked like old and mm-hmm.
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Like, it was gonna cave it and you're just like, ah, fuck it.
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And you just like, walk out there.
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And I'm like, oh my God, if you fall through into that river.
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But then I was like, Ugh, if he can do it, I can do it.
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So I walked out there too, but
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just a, just a little encouragement is all you needed.
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Yeah.
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I don't even know if you knew that was going through my mind.
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No.
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But the walled gardens, even though.
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We went in the winter, and so it wasn't really much of a garden area.
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Yeah,
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because everything was dormant.
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It was still beautiful.
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We were the only ones out there in the morning, so it was a really nice walk.
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Just really nice.
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I can imagine how much nicer it'd be when everything's in full bloom.
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Maybe late spring, summertime.
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Mm-hmm.
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Maybe even early fall with different color leaves on the trees.
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But it was still lovely.
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Really enjoyed it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I bet in the fall it is absolutely beautiful.
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Mm-hmm.
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We just gotta go back.
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Yeah.
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Gotta go back.
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And this was a place where.
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Because you wanted to stay in a castle.
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We had looked at a few different options and through the website we're able to book this with the dinner included, obviously an upcharge for the dinner.
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Mm-hmm.
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But came out to a pretty decent deal as far as we thought.
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A night in this castle.
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And then the dinner as well.
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Yeah.
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Because we were staying there in the winter.
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Mm-hmm.
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It gave us a pretty good deal.
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Yeah.
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so definitely look on the website.
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If you are looking to stay here and it's kind of off season, you can probably get a deal.
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Yeah.
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And I think that goes for a lot of places.
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We used to be very travelocity, booking.com.
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Mm-hmm.
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People, but now we're definitely cross checking with the website.
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'cause a lot of times they want you to book right through them to avoid the fees you we'll still book through booking.com and travel velocity sometimes because of points or specials they have going on.
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We've been getting a lot more hits on the websites as of recent, so
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yeah, we have been, which I, I think is really interesting because we've also been traveling during the off season.
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Mm-hmm.
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Or we've been trying to do that, so I wonder if there's more deals on the websites because of that.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I wonder if that's also like a, a suggestion I would have is maybe travel during the off season.
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You're not gonna, get all of the tours and all of the things you might want during the tourist season.
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Mm-hmm.
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So maybe weigh your options if that's something that's worth it to you, take it into consideration for
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sure.
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If, if you're coming here
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plus as we will get into in this one, if you come during the off season in Ireland and some of these places, it's gonna be a lot.
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Narrower or slimmer
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mm-hmm.
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Options for
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you.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, because after the castle we went to our next stop Clifden.
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Mm-hmm.
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And we stayed at the Ben View Inn there.
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Oh my gosh.
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I loved it here.
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Mm.
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The Ben View Inn was so cute.
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Yeah.
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it was like the cutest little B&B.
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Mm-hmm.
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In the middle of town.
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Yeah.
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So cute.
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Really great location.
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Easy access.
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In and out parking right there.
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It's not included with it, but street parking is insanely cheap.
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And then you can just walk the whole town from right there.
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Yeah.
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And we got breakfast every morning there.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think we missed one morning, but every morning you got the Irish breakfast and I got the pancakes.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because there were, I think, three options and one of them was smoked salmon.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I believe smoked salmon was one of them, but because you're not a smoked salmon fan, we just, we decided not to go with that, so we could still split the, split the breakfast.
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Yeah.
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So we split those breakfasts every morning and, the pancakes were incredible there.
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Mm-hmm.
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So good.
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this place was, is run by Eileen and Des Morris brother and sister.
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Really fun people.
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Des was there the majority of the time that we were there, and he gave us lots of suggestions on where to go to eat, what to go to see around the peninsula.
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Just a really great fun gentleman.
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Yeah.
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And one of your old family names is Morris.
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It is.
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And we didn't find that out his last name out.
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Mm-hmm.
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Until the end.
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Yeah.
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Uh, which is interesting.
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Mm-hmm.
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You guys couldn't, could have been related.
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Yeah.
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It could have been.
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One of my uncles has done some family research and the Galway, Donegal area is kind of where some of my family is from back before they immigrated to the United States.
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So who knows?
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regardless, really great people would suggest staying there.
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especially in the off season.
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There are other places you can stay, but.
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This was one that was open.
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Yeah.
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I really appreciated how, clean the room was.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the breakfast.
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I think those are the two highlights that I'll give this place.
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And it's just like a really, a cute and cozy kind of vibe.
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Mm-hmm.
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So cute.
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Um, which I think is what they're going for.
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And they nailed it.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So,
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and all the Bed and Breakfast, we've stayed in on all of our trips so far.
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We make sure they have en suite bathrooms because not our.
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Ideal situation to be sharing bathrooms with other people while we're on these trips.
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So,
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yeah, that's a no go for me.
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So it, it had an en suite bathroom and this was one that I think we had to book through the website and I actually had to email back and forth with'em.
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So it's worth the effort to, to have to book through email or book through someone's website similar to Lough Rynn and now Ben View.
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So yeah, I think that's a good suggestion, like you said, is to kind of dig deeper, go into the websites instead of
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Yeah.
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The usual booking or travelocities.
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As far as Clifden goes.
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Mm-hmm.
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I really loved Clifden.
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I would compare Clifden and Teelin a little bit because there were cliffs in Clifden.
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Well, on the outside of Clifden, if you take a drive or if you're a brave soul, a walk, down sky road.
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It is incredible.
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It's so beautiful.
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Mm-hmm.
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We met a horse, we met two horses Yep.
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on this drive, and we stopped over to say hi to them and they were so sweet.
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But they get this stunning view all day, every day.
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And they're just overlooking the ocean.
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And they have all of this like mountainside with tons of fresh grass to eat.
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Like they're just such happy horses.
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Yeah.
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It is truly so beautiful and we loved every minute of exploring around this area.
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Mm-hmm.
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We did so much driving we did another great hike here.
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It just another place.
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There's so much to do.
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Yeah.
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And like you said, the Sky Road.
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Very well known and for good reason.
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Yeah.
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Look up the sky road.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's, it's insane with the beauty.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's just so wild.
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Ugh.
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It was so beautiful.
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We also, like you mentioned, did this hike.
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yeah.
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We went ahead and did the upper lower diamond loop.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This was definitely on the All Trails app, a moderate, but it could have been a high difficulty hike for sure.
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It was much harder than the first one that we did.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, it was much scarier than the first one we did.
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I wish I knew going in, but then I wouldn't have done it.
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I'm really proud of us and happy that we did it, and it's a huge accomplishment, I think that we did it.
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however, I will say, I don't think I wanna do a hike like this again.
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It was really scary.
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There were points where I was like, I was shaking because we're like on the edge of this cliff and we have to climb basically up these rocks.
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Um, and at one point I'm like on the hands and knees on these rocks because I'm too short to make the step and one wrong move.
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And you're like on the bottom,
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you weren't gonna fall.
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I was.
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You're splat right there.
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Oh my God.
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It was so scary
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there.
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There were some parts where it was steep and like you said, you had to have both feet down, both hands holding on.
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I just don't think I wanna do more hikes like this.
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I loved the first one that we did.
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That was probably the extent of what I wanna do.
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Mm-hmm.
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On future hikes.
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I'm just not the kind of, uh, heights and cliff person that this hike entailed me to be.
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But the view at the top was definitely worth it.
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The view at the top was so beautiful.
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Mm-hmm.
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You could see the abbey from there.
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Mm-hmm.
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So there's an abbey, uh, called Kylemore.
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Yep.
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Kylemore.
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Abbey, Kylemore Abbey.
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Really beautiful.
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You can see all of the lakes, all of the mountains around you.
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It was, it was pretty cool.
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Yeah.
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It was stunning to see up there.
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I enjoyed it.
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We just have a, a different sort of liking for,'cause I enjoy those moments where it's like, you gotta be meticulous with your, with where you put your feet in, how you climb up things.
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I really enjoyed it.
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I thought it was nice.
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I'm not saying it was better than the first one and Wicklow or the next one when we were in Donegal.
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Yeah.
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But that view at top, I was, I was blown away by it for sure.
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Yeah.
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And it, it's definitely a popular one.
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There was a pretty good crowd hiking it when we were there, even at this time of year.
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Mm-hmm.
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So
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it'd be interesting for people to say if it's even more busy during like high tour season.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I'm sure it is.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm sure it's really busy.
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there were quite a bit of people I, I enjoyed it.
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I did like it.
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And when we got to the top, it felt worth it.
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Yeah.
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And then we had to come down.
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Mm-hmm.
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And here's the thing.
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I fall a lot.
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I am, I'm not a graceful human.
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Okay.
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I fall, and if I fell on this hike, I would've died.
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Okay?
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Don't get me wrong.
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There were points where if you would've fallen a very specific way, could someone die?
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Absolutely.
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this was a.
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four hour hike, almost five miles over 1200 feet of elevation gain.
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So not even quite as high as we did on our first one, I don't think.
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Mm-hmm.
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In the Wicklow Mountains.
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Yeah.
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it's steeper in the first one for sure.
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Yes, absolutely.
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That one took longer because you're slowly ascending for a very long time.
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This is like
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mm-hmm.
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You go straight up.
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Yeah.
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No.
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At one point you're like looking down and you're about to go up and you're like, how the fuck are we getting up there?
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I remember looking up and I'm like, we're not going up there.
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How?
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That's not possible.
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You need to rock, climb to get up there.
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Faced our fears and we did it.
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We sure did.
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And for people who are listening, if you haven't listened to our Teelin or Wicklow episodes, we did some beautiful hikes on there as well.
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If you're looking for some hikes.
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Yeah.
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And if hiking is not your thing, we have many other things that we did too, so stay tuned.
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Mm-hmm.
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If hiking is your thing or even just walking is your thing, I highly recommend you do some hikes
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mm-hmm.
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In Ireland because it is stunning here and you will miss out.
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Yeah.
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If you're looking for the nature kind of vibes Yeah.
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From Ireland.
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Mm-hmm.
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So.
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I'm glad we did them.
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Huge part of our trip.
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Of course.
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Yeah.
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Otherwise driving it.
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Like we said, sky Road was lovely.
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with it being off season, there was supposed to be a coffee cart out there that we tried to go to twice.
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Just wasn't open for the season yet.
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Yeah.
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And that was a struggle that you had at this section'cause there was a lot of places closed.
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There were so many places closed.
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We for dinner every single night we went to the same place, which was guys.
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Mm-hmm.
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Which was incredible.
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Minus one night we went to EJ King's.
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Oh yes.
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Yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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It was incredible and I loved it, but I also really appreciate being able to explore different restaurants in a city.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, I think it helps me kind of envision what date nights would look like with you.
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Yeah.
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and I really loved guys.
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I think every single meal was delicious.
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Mm-hmm.
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It was a really cozy atmosphere.
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EJ King's was really nice too.
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That was more of like a pub atmosphere.
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Yep.
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I really did want more restaurants.
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I was wishing at that time that not everything was closed.
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Yeah.
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And we met up with, uh, Sam
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mm-hmm.
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Who we had found on, well, he had found us on TikTok.
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Yeah.
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he plays music, And it, it was incredible.
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I mean, he plays really good music and I really enjoyed listening and, I don't know, exploring the town with him that one night.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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his family's pub is McGrath's, which just happened to be a hundred yards from Ben View Inn.
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Didn't plan that at all.
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It just turned out that way.
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He told us that we had to come listen to him play, and we did for a couple nights.
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Really great.
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His entire family plays, so we got to hear his grandfather play a little bit.
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His brother played with him.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the first night that we met up with him and talked to him a little bit, he took us to Lowry's, another very popular bar pub.
00:22:21.305 --> 00:22:21.484
Mm-hmm.
00:22:21.964 --> 00:22:27.921
And we met up with some of his friends, and I think his cousin or his uncle,
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his uncle was playing,
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was playing in that pub.
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Mm-hmm.
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It just felt like such a, I don't know, small town Ireland experience to be like, oh, my brother's playing here tonight with me.
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Oh, my grandpa go over this pub.
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My uncle's playing here.
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Yeah.
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Go to McGraths.
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There was live music from him and his family pretty much every night we were there.
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Same with Lowry's.
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Lots of live music going on, in this town.
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as far as what else we did besides hiking, you had mentioned Kylemore Abbey
00:23:04.951 --> 00:23:06.211
Yeah, it was really fun.
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We got to learn a lot about the history of the building.
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Mm-hmm.
00:23:09.931 --> 00:23:14.131
And there are still nuns that are in the building.
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They continuously change up how they make money in the area.
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Mm-hmm.
00:23:22.736 --> 00:23:27.145
And some things that stick and work out well, they, they keep doing.
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So one thing that we ended up purchasing was chocolate there, which was delicious.
00:23:32.905 --> 00:23:37.016
as far as the Abbey as a whole, it's massive.
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Mm-hmm.
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We came at, I think close to two o'clock, two 30, and they have free tours of the Abbey, and we did that.
00:23:46.465 --> 00:23:53.635
And then after that it was basically closing time, so we didn't actually get a chance to go to the garden, which is beautiful.
00:23:54.026 --> 00:23:56.605
Another kind of church on the property.
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Mm-hmm.
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They didn't get to go to that.
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So if you end up trying to go to Kylemore Abbey, which they suggest it's beautiful, it's like got a beautiful backdrop.
00:24:05.905 --> 00:24:09.986
You gotta give yourself probably at least three full hours before they close.
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Yeah.
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And if you wanna explore and stuff, maybe four or five.
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Yeah, for sure.
00:24:14.875 --> 00:24:19.435
It could definitely be a whole day trip if you wanted to.
00:24:19.435 --> 00:24:19.645
It could
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be.
00:24:19.885 --> 00:24:20.185
Yeah.
00:24:20.246 --> 00:24:25.915
They have a cafe there so you could get snacks, breakfast, lunch, it seemed like.
00:24:26.006 --> 00:24:26.096
Mm-hmm.
00:24:27.115 --> 00:24:28.405
Lots you can do there.
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Yeah.
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It was really beautiful too.
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And as we were walking out, there was a rainbow.
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Super cute.
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Yeah.
00:24:35.215 --> 00:24:35.486
Yeah.
00:24:35.593 --> 00:24:42.762
coming back to Clifden, we, when we ate at guys, we had some really delicious meals.
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Mm-hmm.
00:24:43.143 --> 00:24:49.262
the first night we had butternut squash, coconut and chili soup.
00:24:50.583 --> 00:24:51.423
That was divine.
00:24:52.482 --> 00:24:57.143
then we also got a Caesar salad and then, beef stroganoff.
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Mm-hmm.
00:24:57.989 --> 00:25:06.628
we had also got, on other nights, the chicken go Johns, the beef stew, which was amazing.
00:25:06.628 --> 00:25:08.699
Beef stew, especially paired with a Guinness.
00:25:08.818 --> 00:25:15.278
I don't know what it is about Irish beef stew, but it really hits we also got some dessert here.
00:25:15.278 --> 00:25:15.398
Mm-hmm.
00:25:15.848 --> 00:25:17.648
Moroccan orange cake.
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Lovely.
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Ah, it was so good.
00:25:20.374 --> 00:25:22.773
And then a pistachio cheesecake.
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Yeah.
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Also really good.
00:25:24.483 --> 00:25:24.933
Yes.
00:25:24.993 --> 00:25:25.834
Love pistachio.
00:25:26.614 --> 00:25:28.413
And then at EJ King's
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mm-hmm.
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We had our first experience with a spice bag.
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I think that's a problem.
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It took us this long to have a spice bag.
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It was a problem.
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It definitely was a problem.
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Because it was delicious.
00:25:41.973 --> 00:25:42.364
Yes.
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And I want one now.
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Everything is seasoned to perfection.
00:25:48.203 --> 00:25:54.384
they have a lot of spices on them, and then you can dip them in like a curry sauce, maybe a mustard.
00:25:54.653 --> 00:25:55.703
So good.
00:25:55.824 --> 00:25:56.094
Delicious.
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So delicious.
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And then we also got a chicken sandwich.
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That was amazing as well.
00:26:01.357 --> 00:26:06.048
We also got a Bailey's and chocolate cheesecake that was amazing as well.
00:26:06.053 --> 00:26:06.083
Mm-hmm.
00:26:06.182 --> 00:26:11.673
Yeah, highly recommend going here, especially if you want kind of like a bar pub environment.
00:26:11.702 --> 00:26:11.792
Mm-hmm.
00:26:12.303 --> 00:26:22.383
And then for lunch, the day that we were heading out, we went to Griffin's Pub and we got a Cajun chicken with spicy mayo wrap.
00:26:22.445 --> 00:26:25.593
That was so delicious.
00:26:25.623 --> 00:26:25.712
Mm-hmm.
00:26:26.343 --> 00:26:27.692
It was so good.
00:26:27.692 --> 00:26:32.192
I wish that we would've came here sooner'cause I would've gotten that a lot more.
00:26:32.522 --> 00:26:33.752
That was fantastic.
00:26:33.752 --> 00:26:39.873
This is like dark horse, like one of the best like single items we might've ate,
00:26:40.292 --> 00:26:40.833
honestly.
00:26:40.833 --> 00:26:41.042
Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
00:26:41.883 --> 00:26:45.032
We also got a chicken on sourdough sandwich,
00:26:45.063 --> 00:26:46.053
which was good as well.
00:26:46.113 --> 00:26:46.863
It was good.
00:26:46.863 --> 00:26:51.722
But the Cajun chicken with spicy mayo wrap was out of this world.
00:26:51.752 --> 00:26:51.843
Mm-hmm.
00:26:52.368 --> 00:26:58.489
And because it was off season, they didn't have their point of sale system up yet, so it was the only place I'm pretty sure.
00:26:59.568 --> 00:27:04.398
On the entire trip, that was like, you have to use cash.
00:27:04.398 --> 00:27:04.848
Mm-hmm.
00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:09.828
It was the only place, otherwise, every place else was tap card and Good.
00:27:09.828 --> 00:27:10.068
Go.
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This was like, yep.
00:27:11.269 --> 00:27:12.169
Still outta season.
00:27:12.169 --> 00:27:13.398
So cash only.
00:27:13.909 --> 00:27:14.088
Yeah.
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Make sure you have some cash on you and get this wrap.
00:27:18.864 --> 00:27:19.153
Yeah.
00:27:20.445 --> 00:27:22.786
the restaurants were really nice.
00:27:22.816 --> 00:27:25.576
I again wish that more were open.
00:27:25.635 --> 00:27:25.756
Mm-hmm.
00:27:26.415 --> 00:27:33.105
I think though that Clifden was a homey kind of town.
00:27:33.165 --> 00:27:33.316
Yeah.
00:27:33.645 --> 00:27:45.576
it seemed like everybody kind of knows each other and I really appreciated that at this point in the trip, It seemed like a place that we could envision ourselves a little bit more
00:27:45.635 --> 00:27:45.726
mm-hmm.
00:27:46.175 --> 00:27:52.306
Than, Teelin, which is a really spread out, place.
00:27:52.605 --> 00:27:56.445
Very like sparsely populated.
00:27:56.776 --> 00:27:56.865
Yeah.
00:27:56.865 --> 00:28:01.846
You know, it's, it's not, you get on a street and walk down and there's a restaurant house
00:28:02.205 --> 00:28:02.476
mm-hmm.
00:28:02.566 --> 00:28:04.635
Bunch of different facilities.
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Grocery store.
00:28:06.105 --> 00:28:08.566
That's not what Teelin was, but that's what Clifden was.
00:28:08.685 --> 00:28:08.865
Mm-hmm.
00:28:09.435 --> 00:28:10.875
At least downtown Clifden.
00:28:11.056 --> 00:28:14.536
I'm sure it's bigger than just the area that we stayed in.
00:28:14.722 --> 00:28:18.563
But it was so nice there, there wasn't a ton of people.
00:28:19.133 --> 00:28:21.682
There were a bunch of restaurants just all closed.
00:28:21.682 --> 00:28:23.212
'cause it was off season.
00:28:24.518 --> 00:28:28.417
Grocery store that we went into, bunch of pubs.
00:28:28.778 --> 00:28:31.028
Everyone was friendly to us.
00:28:31.268 --> 00:28:31.597
Yeah.
00:28:31.627 --> 00:28:35.347
Like I said, the one thing we ran into was not like a ton of coffee places.
00:28:35.347 --> 00:28:36.488
So you were kind of like, eh.
00:28:38.407 --> 00:28:38.798
Yeah.
00:28:38.857 --> 00:28:43.147
I had a little rough go of it with the coffee situation.
00:28:43.147 --> 00:28:47.198
I mean, they do have coffee at the bed and breakfast as well.
00:28:47.250 --> 00:28:49.351
I'm just very picky about my coffee.
00:28:49.471 --> 00:28:50.010
You are.
00:28:50.340 --> 00:28:50.611
Yeah.
00:28:50.661 --> 00:28:55.260
I feel like each place you get a different version of yourself.
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from Wicklow to Donegal to now county, Galway, Clifden.
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Each place is a different version of me, I feel like.
00:29:06.409 --> 00:29:06.828
Yeah.
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And this was much more like small town living.
00:29:11.858 --> 00:29:12.219
Hmm.
00:29:12.278 --> 00:29:25.419
You could very easily see yourself living in this small town, having a job, getting groceries, doing laundry, talking to this person, going to the pub, going home is kind of what it felt like to me.
00:29:25.753 --> 00:29:26.173
Mm-hmm.
00:29:26.469 --> 00:29:26.769
Yeah.
00:29:27.159 --> 00:29:27.578
Yeah.
00:29:27.578 --> 00:29:33.009
It seemed like it was easier to envision us here mm-hmm.
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Than in the other places that we visited.
00:29:35.318 --> 00:29:35.558
Right.
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Just because it was an you know, an actual town mm-hmm.
00:29:39.134 --> 00:29:42.969
Where you could walk to places where you could see other people where Right.
00:29:43.179 --> 00:29:45.249
There is a grocery store there.
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Yeah.
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but it also wasn't too big.
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'cause there are some places that are too big.
00:29:49.898 --> 00:29:53.528
It was like, just like the perfect size little town.
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And there's all of this beauty surrounding it.
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Mm-hmm.
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I mean, you walk for 10 minutes and you're on Sky Road.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it's out of this world.
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Beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Like you're, is this even real, I mean, at points on Sky Road, I was just like, I can't believe this place is real.
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Yeah.
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did you get the feeling here?
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No, I don't think so.
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It, it wasn't something that.
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Really grabbed me.
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It's again, a place where if someone said like, Hey, you have to live here, would I be happy?
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Of course.
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Yeah.
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But it, it is not some place where I'm like, we gotta move here.
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It's, this is the place just not for me.
00:30:38.741 --> 00:30:39.192
Yeah.
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What about you?
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No, I didn't either.
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I think I got the feeling slightly more only because I could see it a little bit more.
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Yeah.
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it also felt like, if we wanted to go do something mm-hmm.
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We would have to go out to the bars, to the pubs.
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Mm-hmm.
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And while that is, you know, a thing that a lot of.
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People go and do.
00:31:02.443 --> 00:31:02.864
Mm-hmm.
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And there's no hate on that.
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that's just not something that I see for us all the time.
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I also think with restaurants being closed, it didn't give me a full picture.
00:31:13.038 --> 00:31:13.338
Yeah.
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But it gave me a picture of what it would look like outside of tourist season.
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which is such a huge benefit because that's half the year, over half the year potentially.
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Absolutely.
00:31:24.398 --> 00:31:28.989
As far as visiting here, just for someone coming to.
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Have a vacation.
00:31:30.128 --> 00:31:30.459
Yeah.
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I would highly recommend coming here.
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if you're a hiker doing the hike, it is beautiful.
00:31:35.654 --> 00:31:42.615
I also think the Abbey, walking along the water in some of those spots mm-hmm.
00:31:43.095 --> 00:31:49.884
walking around the town, visiting some pubs, drinking some Guinness, doing Sky Road.
00:31:49.884 --> 00:31:49.944
Yeah.
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I think all of these things are definite things that I would come back for.
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And I would recommend people go and do these things.
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'cause the beauty here is just, it's life changing.
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It really is.
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There were parts of this part of the trip where I felt like my life had changed.
00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:12.108
Mm-hmm.
00:32:12.528 --> 00:32:15.169
Just because I was able to see some of this beauty.
00:32:15.169 --> 00:32:15.229
Yeah.
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it, we've talked about it before, it's a part of some of our travels where you see something or you do something and it's so beautiful that you start to think how small you are mm-hmm.
00:32:28.535 --> 00:32:29.974
In the world and Yeah.
00:32:29.974 --> 00:32:38.944
how sometimes we catastrophize things in our lives that are really meaningless.
00:32:38.974 --> 00:32:39.095
Mm-hmm.
00:32:39.588 --> 00:32:49.969
not to say that things that bother you don't hold any weight, because they certainly do, but I think that sometimes it's important to get that reminder that.
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Things are bigger than you.
00:32:52.308 --> 00:32:52.788
Yeah.
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That the world and the universe is bigger than you.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I think that's what this part of the trip did for me.
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Yeah.
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I, I feel that.
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I really do.
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I saw this I quote the other day that really resonates with that.
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And I wrote it down.
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It's wander long enough and even questions start to feel like answers.
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Mm.
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And that really kinda like vibes with that.
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And I really enjoy what you said there because That's, it's so true.
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That's exactly what it was.
00:33:23.765 --> 00:33:26.525
It just kind of let everything else fall away.
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Yeah.
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You know, all the problems that are in the world right now.
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appreciate the world and the stillness for a moment.
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And I think that's what you can get in a lot of Ireland.
00:33:37.714 --> 00:33:42.035
And I think that's why a lot of people go to Ireland is to look for that stillness.
00:33:42.545 --> 00:33:43.144
Yeah.
00:33:43.150 --> 00:33:43.279
Mm-hmm.
00:33:43.365 --> 00:33:51.694
The stillness, the quietness, you just get to experience these views that just remind you that the world is so big mm-hmm.
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And much bigger than you.
00:33:54.378 --> 00:34:02.598
And even though Ireland is this small island, it's about the size of a lot of our states in the United States.
00:34:02.598 --> 00:34:03.078
So,
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but it's like one of the most beautiful places we've ever been to.
00:34:07.439 --> 00:34:07.628
Mm-hmm.
00:34:07.709 --> 00:34:09.028
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:09.168 --> 00:34:10.588
Clifden specifically.
00:34:10.768 --> 00:34:11.123
Mm-hmm.
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I think it's, it's definitely a place that I think we both can agree that if people are looking for a place to go county, Galway and Clifden is definitely a good stop.
00:34:19.793 --> 00:34:22.824
That you should probably go on your trip.
00:34:22.869 --> 00:34:23.159
Yeah.
00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:23.436
Mm-hmm.
00:34:23.436 --> 00:34:24.637
I agree.
00:34:25.126 --> 00:34:37.427
Anything else you're thinking about this portion of our trip from the castle to, you know, the hike, the beach, any places we ate the people?
00:34:38.023 --> 00:34:39.793
I really loved it here.
00:34:39.873 --> 00:34:41.103
So beautiful.
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Just totally worth it.
00:34:43.532 --> 00:34:55.063
Even if you just do a trip from, Dublin to Clifden and you rent a car for that, maybe go to our next stop too.
00:34:55.777 --> 00:34:56.197
Mm-hmm.
00:34:57.672 --> 00:34:59.922
Because our next stop was one of my favorites.
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I do think that renting a car is totally worth it in Ireland.
00:35:06.157 --> 00:35:06.327
Mm-hmm.
00:35:07.068 --> 00:35:07.288
Now.
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You do have a lot of small roads.
00:35:12.588 --> 00:35:12.677
Mm-hmm.
00:35:13.608 --> 00:35:20.057
And I think going into Clifden, there were also cliffs that we were driving on the edge of as well.
00:35:20.088 --> 00:35:20.568
Oh, definitely.
00:35:20.568 --> 00:35:21.047
At points.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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just be careful.
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Mm-hmm.
00:35:23.182 --> 00:35:23.302
Be
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careful out there.
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Mm-hmm.
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But I think it's worth it to rent a car.
00:35:27.018 --> 00:35:27.677
Yeah, for
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sure.
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And I think the way we did this trip too was so beautiful because we went from, the Wicklow Mountains By Dublin.
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we did a long trip all the way to Donegal, which is stunning, but it's very isolated.
00:35:47.983 --> 00:35:48.284
Mm-hmm.
00:35:48.409 --> 00:35:56.762
And then we did Lough Rynn Castle just for the one night, it kind of gave us that breather of we're not gonna do our hikes.
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we're just gonna rest here.
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eat food, we're gonna enjoy ourselves.
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It gave us that night.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then we went to Clifden and there's just this indescribable beauty.
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And after that rest night, I think it helped us appreciate it so much more.
00:36:14.063 --> 00:36:19.103
So I think we crafted this trip very nicely.
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and I think that if people wanted to, they could use our trip as a reference of what they should do.
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:25.268
For sure.
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'cause I think it was perfect.
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Yeah.
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I really do.
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I think it was a really good blueprint.
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Of course, you're never gonna get everything right in a trip.
00:36:33.938 --> 00:36:39.278
Someone's gonna say, you know, you didn't go into Northern Ireland, you didn't see Giants Causeway Belfast.
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Of course we didn't go all the way to the Southern points of Ireland.
00:36:45.373 --> 00:36:45.594
Mm-hmm.
00:36:45.969 --> 00:36:48.458
Didn't get to see a lot of the East Coast.
00:36:49.298 --> 00:36:56.679
But this was a really good blueprint for people to maybe copy use parts of for their own trip.
00:36:56.978 --> 00:36:57.398
Yeah.
00:36:57.398 --> 00:37:00.909
And it was a nice starting point for Ireland.
00:37:00.909 --> 00:37:06.998
Like I think we should go back and see the places that we haven't seen in the future.
00:37:06.998 --> 00:37:07.418
Right.
00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:14.469
But I think this was a really good starting point for me'cause you've seen Ireland.
00:37:14.688 --> 00:37:17.483
but for me to see Ireland for the first time, yeah.
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I just really love the way we, we did it.
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:21.048
Yeah.
00:37:21.409 --> 00:37:22.458
What about you?
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Do you have any final points or any thoughts?
00:37:26.418 --> 00:37:30.179
Clifden's great and I think there's lots to do.
00:37:30.179 --> 00:37:45.748
We even had a day where it was pretty much rainy the whole day, and we were just able to go on a drive and see the scenery from the car, which sometimes isn't always great, but here there's a lot of great roads to drive on.
00:37:45.748 --> 00:37:46.619
Mm-hmm.
00:37:46.625 --> 00:37:47.114
And just.
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Marvel at the beauty, like you've said, we've said so many times.
00:37:50.923 --> 00:37:52.244
It is just gorgeous out there.
00:37:52.304 --> 00:37:53.233
You have to see it.
00:37:53.474 --> 00:37:55.664
None of our pictures are gonna do it justice.
00:37:55.664 --> 00:38:00.853
None of our videos are gonna do it justice because we didn't videotape and record 24 7.
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There are plenty of times, so we passed some and we're like, oh, we should have gotten a picture of that.
00:38:04.483 --> 00:38:04.724
Yeah,
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because it is something that you have to see.
00:38:09.583 --> 00:38:09.824
Yeah.
00:38:09.824 --> 00:38:10.963
We're still new to this.
00:38:10.994 --> 00:38:11.233
Yeah.
00:38:11.773 --> 00:38:12.434
We're still babies,
00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:24.141
in the town of Clifden it, it could just be a nice time to go stay there, go to some pubs, go to some restaurants, go do a few hikes.
00:38:24.141 --> 00:38:26.061
It seems like a great town to go do that.
00:38:26.271 --> 00:38:26.661
Yeah.
00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:27.021
So
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I agree.
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Really enjoyed it.
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But I'm really excited for our next episode as well.
00:38:32.001 --> 00:38:33.050
I am too.
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I loved it here.
00:38:34.340 --> 00:38:34.431
Mm-hmm.
00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:47.791
our next episode is about dingle, which is also gorgeous, and we will talk about all of the pubs, all of the local spots that we went to.
00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:48.061
Mm-hmm.
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Along with a hike where we got ran off by a sheep.
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Hello and welcome to the We Should Move Here Travels podcast.
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My name is Brittany.
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I'm Josh
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and we are your hosts.
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Today we are gonna be talking about Clifden and the Lough Rynn Castle.
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yeah, A couple amazing stops on our Ireland adventure and we've been home for a couple weeks now recording, and I miss them both already.
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Yeah, me too.
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These stops were truly amazing.
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After Teelin, we stopped at the Lough Rynn Castle.
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Mm-hmm.
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And that was absolutely incredible.
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I wish we could have stayed longer, but it was pretty expensive to stay there just for the night.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I'm glad we splurged a little bit and did it because staying in a castle just like hits a little different than anywhere else.
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I know sometimes I act like I'm a princess, but like I truly felt like a princess.
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This was one of your wishlist items for Ireland was staying in a castle?
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Yeah.
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Well, we got to do it in Scotland.
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Well, it was in Abbey, but it was basically a freaking castle, I just really appreciated that time in Scotland and I wanted to do it again.
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So that was on my wishlist.
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Yeah.
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If I'm being honest, this wasn't quite the level of the Abbey, I think the Abbey, the setting Just the small town around it.
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Scotland in general just had a little more to it, but this castle was still amazing.
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If you're looking for a place to stay
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Yeah.
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For a night or a couple nights if you have the opportunity to.
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Yeah.
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Well, the Abbey in Scotland was right on Loch Ness, and it was, more of like an Airbnb situation.
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Mm-hmm.
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Whereas this was a castle that was converted into a hotel.
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Yeah.
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so it was really nice though.
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the dinner, the accommodation, the bar area, everything was so beautiful and so delicious.
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I really appreciated the time here.
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From the moment we stepped on the grounds, we were greeted by the staff who were very helpful.
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We went to our room, which was like you said, stunning, comfortable, heated bathroom floor.
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Yeah.
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Felt like true royalty.
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With that,
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we were living the life we were
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for the less than 24 hours we were there.
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before dinner, we had some.
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Gin and tonics at the bar area?
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Yeah, and like the fireplace bar room, which was super nice.
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I will say this is one of the only times on this whole trip we got a little turned up.
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I mean, we had the gin and tonics.
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We had wine at dinner, which we paired with each course of the meal.
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And then we had a Guinness after dinner.
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So we were feeling pretty good at the end of the night.
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But like you said, it was wonderful.
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Dinner was delicious.
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What did we have for dinner there?
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so we had a couple different courses to start.
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We had a amuse bouch, We had a sliced carrot puree with sliced carrot on top.
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that was really nice.
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And then a lemon sorbet to cleanse the palette after that.
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And then for our appetizer, we had a seared Atlantic tuna, which was delicious.
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Ugh.
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I loved it.
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It was so good.
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the outside was seared, the middle was raw.
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It was really, really good.
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And then for dinner, we had the roasted chicken supreme and the beef filet, which again, delicious.
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absolutely loved the roasted chicken.
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I would highly recommend that dish.
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And then for dessert, we had the chocolate fondant and rhubarb mousse.
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I remember really loving the chocolate fondant, which was like a chocolate lava cake basically.
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And I love anything chocolate, so it was so good though.
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this whole meal it was super fancy.
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a place where you knew that you were gonna be taken care of.
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a place where I kind of felt like out of place a little bit, which I love putting myself in those situations.
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Right.
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Um, just'cause they don't happen very often and sometimes it's fun to act like, I don't know, royalty.
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Mm-hmm.
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But that does not mean that you're not nice to your servers when you're acting like royalty because the server was incredible.
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She had just, moved from, where did she move from?
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I wanna say Spain.
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Oh yes.
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It was Spain.
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so she was from Spain and she was doing like a, a work visa
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mm-hmm.
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Kind of thing.
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And we got to know her a little bit.
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She was so kind, so sweet.
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Really nice.
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And we've seen that on a lot of our trips now since we started the podcast where young adults come from many different countries to do a holiday work visa or something similar and just save up money, explore.
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Yeah.
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And then once they've had their fun or they're ready to move on to the next thing, they go somewhere else or they go back home.
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So she said, I, I think she said she was gonna try to be going to Canada next, if I remember correctly too.
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Yeah.
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She also said she wanted to come to the States and we were like, maybe hold off until we get a different administration.
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Wait till everything cools down a little bit.
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Yeah.
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Because right now like immigration, no way.
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I would never recommend somebody from another country to move here right now.
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Well, it's just unfortunate'cause you're not a hundred percent sure if you know you're gonna be welcomed with open arms.
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Yeah.
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Even if you come about legally.
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Yeah.
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So unfortunate.
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But regardless, staff was fantastic, really great place to stay.
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The next morning we woke up and we took a walk around the grounds.
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Mm-hmm.
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In the gardens along the lake.
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Wonderful.
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It was so beautiful.
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No, it was stunning.
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I really appreciated that walk.
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so we took a walk around the walled gardens.
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Mm-hmm.
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And then we walked around the rest of the grounds.
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Mm-hmm.
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And there was, I remember this cute little bridge that I was like, can we walk on that?
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Because it looked like old and mm-hmm.
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Like, it was gonna cave it and you're just like, ah, fuck it.
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And you just like, walk out there.
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And I'm like, oh my God, if you fall through into that river.
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But then I was like, Ugh, if he can do it, I can do it.
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So I walked out there too, but
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just a, just a little encouragement is all you needed.
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Yeah.
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I don't even know if you knew that was going through my mind.
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No.
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But the walled gardens, even though.
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We went in the winter, and so it wasn't really much of a garden area.
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Yeah,
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because everything was dormant.
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It was still beautiful.
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We were the only ones out there in the morning, so it was a really nice walk.
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Just really nice.
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I can imagine how much nicer it'd be when everything's in full bloom.
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Maybe late spring, summertime.
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Mm-hmm.
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Maybe even early fall with different color leaves on the trees.
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But it was still lovely.
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Really enjoyed it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I agree.
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I bet in the fall it is absolutely beautiful.
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Mm-hmm.
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We just gotta go back.
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Yeah.
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Gotta go back.
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And this was a place where.
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Because you wanted to stay in a castle.
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We had looked at a few different options and through the website we're able to book this with the dinner included, obviously an upcharge for the dinner.
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Mm-hmm.
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But came out to a pretty decent deal as far as we thought.
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A night in this castle.
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And then the dinner as well.
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Yeah.
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Because we were staying there in the winter.
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Mm-hmm.
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It gave us a pretty good deal.
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Yeah.
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so definitely look on the website.
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If you are looking to stay here and it's kind of off season, you can probably get a deal.
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Yeah.
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And I think that goes for a lot of places.
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We used to be very travelocity, booking.com.
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Mm-hmm.
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People, but now we're definitely cross checking with the website.
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'cause a lot of times they want you to book right through them to avoid the fees you we'll still book through booking.com and travel velocity sometimes because of points or specials they have going on.
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We've been getting a lot more hits on the websites as of recent, so
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yeah, we have been, which I, I think is really interesting because we've also been traveling during the off season.
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Mm-hmm.
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Or we've been trying to do that, so I wonder if there's more deals on the websites because of that.
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Mm-hmm.
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So I wonder if that's also like a, a suggestion I would have is maybe travel during the off season.
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You're not gonna, get all of the tours and all of the things you might want during the tourist season.
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Mm-hmm.
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So maybe weigh your options if that's something that's worth it to you, take it into consideration for
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sure.
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If, if you're coming here
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plus as we will get into in this one, if you come during the off season in Ireland and some of these places, it's gonna be a lot.
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Narrower or slimmer
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mm-hmm.
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Options for
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you.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, because after the castle we went to our next stop Clifden.
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Mm-hmm.
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And we stayed at the Ben View Inn there.
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Oh my gosh.
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I loved it here.
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Mm.
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The Ben View Inn was so cute.
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Yeah.
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it was like the cutest little B&B.
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Mm-hmm.
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In the middle of town.
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Yeah.
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So cute.
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Really great location.
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Easy access.
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In and out parking right there.
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It's not included with it, but street parking is insanely cheap.
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And then you can just walk the whole town from right there.
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Yeah.
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And we got breakfast every morning there.
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Mm-hmm.
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I think we missed one morning, but every morning you got the Irish breakfast and I got the pancakes.
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Mm-hmm.
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Because there were, I think, three options and one of them was smoked salmon.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I believe smoked salmon was one of them, but because you're not a smoked salmon fan, we just, we decided not to go with that, so we could still split the, split the breakfast.
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Yeah.
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So we split those breakfasts every morning and, the pancakes were incredible there.
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Mm-hmm.
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So good.
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this place was, is run by Eileen and Des Morris brother and sister.
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Really fun people.
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Des was there the majority of the time that we were there, and he gave us lots of suggestions on where to go to eat, what to go to see around the peninsula.
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Just a really great fun gentleman.
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Yeah.
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And one of your old family names is Morris.
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It is.
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And we didn't find that out his last name out.
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Mm-hmm.
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Until the end.
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Yeah.
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Uh, which is interesting.
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Mm-hmm.
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You guys couldn't, could have been related.
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Yeah.
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It could have been.
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One of my uncles has done some family research and the Galway, Donegal area is kind of where some of my family is from back before they immigrated to the United States.
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So who knows?
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regardless, really great people would suggest staying there.
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especially in the off season.
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There are other places you can stay, but.
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This was one that was open.
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Yeah.
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I really appreciated how, clean the room was.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the breakfast.
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I think those are the two highlights that I'll give this place.
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And it's just like a really, a cute and cozy kind of vibe.
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Mm-hmm.
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So cute.
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Um, which I think is what they're going for.
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And they nailed it.
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Yeah, for sure.
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So,
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and all the Bed and Breakfast, we've stayed in on all of our trips so far.
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We make sure they have en suite bathrooms because not our.
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Ideal situation to be sharing bathrooms with other people while we're on these trips.
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So,
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yeah, that's a no go for me.
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So it, it had an en suite bathroom and this was one that I think we had to book through the website and I actually had to email back and forth with'em.
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So it's worth the effort to, to have to book through email or book through someone's website similar to Lough Rynn and now Ben View.
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So yeah, I think that's a good suggestion, like you said, is to kind of dig deeper, go into the websites instead of
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Yeah.
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The usual booking or travelocities.
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As far as Clifden goes.
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Mm-hmm.
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I really loved Clifden.
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I would compare Clifden and Teelin a little bit because there were cliffs in Clifden.
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Well, on the outside of Clifden, if you take a drive or if you're a brave soul, a walk, down sky road.
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It is incredible.
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It's so beautiful.
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Mm-hmm.
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We met a horse, we met two horses Yep.
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on this drive, and we stopped over to say hi to them and they were so sweet.
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But they get this stunning view all day, every day.
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And they're just overlooking the ocean.
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And they have all of this like mountainside with tons of fresh grass to eat.
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Like they're just such happy horses.
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Yeah.
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It is truly so beautiful and we loved every minute of exploring around this area.
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Mm-hmm.
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We did so much driving we did another great hike here.
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It just another place.
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There's so much to do.
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Yeah.
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And like you said, the Sky Road.
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Very well known and for good reason.
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Yeah.
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Look up the sky road.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's, it's insane with the beauty.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's just so wild.
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Ugh.
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It was so beautiful.
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We also, like you mentioned, did this hike.
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yeah.
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We went ahead and did the upper lower diamond loop.
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Mm-hmm.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This was definitely on the All Trails app, a moderate, but it could have been a high difficulty hike for sure.
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It was much harder than the first one that we did.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, it was much scarier than the first one we did.
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I wish I knew going in, but then I wouldn't have done it.
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I'm really proud of us and happy that we did it, and it's a huge accomplishment, I think that we did it.
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however, I will say, I don't think I wanna do a hike like this again.
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It was really scary.
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There were points where I was like, I was shaking because we're like on the edge of this cliff and we have to climb basically up these rocks.
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Um, and at one point I'm like on the hands and knees on these rocks because I'm too short to make the step and one wrong move.
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And you're like on the bottom,
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you weren't gonna fall.
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I was.
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You're splat right there.
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Oh my God.
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It was so scary
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there.
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There were some parts where it was steep and like you said, you had to have both feet down, both hands holding on.
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I just don't think I wanna do more hikes like this.
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I loved the first one that we did.
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That was probably the extent of what I wanna do.
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Mm-hmm.
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On future hikes.
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I'm just not the kind of, uh, heights and cliff person that this hike entailed me to be.
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But the view at the top was definitely worth it.
00:17:02.254 --> 00:17:05.015
The view at the top was so beautiful.
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Mm-hmm.
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You could see the abbey from there.
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Mm-hmm.
00:17:08.464 --> 00:17:11.765
So there's an abbey, uh, called Kylemore.
00:17:12.075 --> 00:17:12.255
Yep.
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Kylemore.
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Abbey, Kylemore Abbey.
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Really beautiful.
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You can see all of the lakes, all of the mountains around you.
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It was, it was pretty cool.
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Yeah.
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It was stunning to see up there.
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I enjoyed it.
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We just have a, a different sort of liking for,'cause I enjoy those moments where it's like, you gotta be meticulous with your, with where you put your feet in, how you climb up things.
00:17:37.605 --> 00:17:38.595
I really enjoyed it.
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I thought it was nice.
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I'm not saying it was better than the first one and Wicklow or the next one when we were in Donegal.
00:17:46.154 --> 00:17:46.484
Yeah.
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But that view at top, I was, I was blown away by it for sure.
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Yeah.
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And it, it's definitely a popular one.
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There was a pretty good crowd hiking it when we were there, even at this time of year.
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Mm-hmm.
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So
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it'd be interesting for people to say if it's even more busy during like high tour season.
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Yeah.
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Oh, I'm sure it is.
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Mm-hmm.
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I'm sure it's really busy.
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there were quite a bit of people I, I enjoyed it.
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I did like it.
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And when we got to the top, it felt worth it.
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Yeah.
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And then we had to come down.
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Mm-hmm.
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And here's the thing.
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I fall a lot.
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I am, I'm not a graceful human.
00:18:33.275 --> 00:18:33.934
Okay.
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I fall, and if I fell on this hike, I would've died.
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Okay?
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Don't get me wrong.
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There were points where if you would've fallen a very specific way, could someone die?
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Absolutely.
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this was a.
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four hour hike, almost five miles over 1200 feet of elevation gain.
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So not even quite as high as we did on our first one, I don't think.
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Mm-hmm.
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In the Wicklow Mountains.
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Yeah.
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it's steeper in the first one for sure.
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Yes, absolutely.
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That one took longer because you're slowly ascending for a very long time.
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This is like
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mm-hmm.
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You go straight up.
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Yeah.
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No.
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At one point you're like looking down and you're about to go up and you're like, how the fuck are we getting up there?
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I remember looking up and I'm like, we're not going up there.
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How?
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That's not possible.
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You need to rock, climb to get up there.
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Faced our fears and we did it.
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We sure did.
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And for people who are listening, if you haven't listened to our Teelin or Wicklow episodes, we did some beautiful hikes on there as well.
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If you're looking for some hikes.
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Yeah.
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And if hiking is not your thing, we have many other things that we did too, so stay tuned.
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Mm-hmm.
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If hiking is your thing or even just walking is your thing, I highly recommend you do some hikes
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mm-hmm.
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In Ireland because it is stunning here and you will miss out.
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Yeah.
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If you're looking for the nature kind of vibes Yeah.
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From Ireland.
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Mm-hmm.
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So.
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I'm glad we did them.
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Huge part of our trip.
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Of course.
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Yeah.
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Otherwise driving it.
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Like we said, sky Road was lovely.
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with it being off season, there was supposed to be a coffee cart out there that we tried to go to twice.
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Just wasn't open for the season yet.
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Yeah.
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And that was a struggle that you had at this section'cause there was a lot of places closed.
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There were so many places closed.
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We for dinner every single night we went to the same place, which was guys.
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Mm-hmm.
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Which was incredible.
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Minus one night we went to EJ King's.
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Oh yes.
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Yes.
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Mm-hmm.
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It was incredible and I loved it, but I also really appreciate being able to explore different restaurants in a city.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, I think it helps me kind of envision what date nights would look like with you.
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Yeah.
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and I really loved guys.
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I think every single meal was delicious.
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Mm-hmm.
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It was a really cozy atmosphere.
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EJ King's was really nice too.
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That was more of like a pub atmosphere.
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Yep.
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I really did want more restaurants.
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I was wishing at that time that not everything was closed.
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Yeah.
00:21:24.825 --> 00:21:27.555
And we met up with, uh, Sam
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mm-hmm.
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Who we had found on, well, he had found us on TikTok.
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Yeah.
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he plays music, And it, it was incredible.
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I mean, he plays really good music and I really enjoyed listening and, I don't know, exploring the town with him that one night.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:21:46.325 --> 00:21:53.494
his family's pub is McGrath's, which just happened to be a hundred yards from Ben View Inn.
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Didn't plan that at all.
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It just turned out that way.
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He told us that we had to come listen to him play, and we did for a couple nights.
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Really great.
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His entire family plays, so we got to hear his grandfather play a little bit.
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His brother played with him.
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Mm-hmm.
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And the first night that we met up with him and talked to him a little bit, he took us to Lowry's, another very popular bar pub.
00:22:21.305 --> 00:22:21.484
Mm-hmm.
00:22:21.964 --> 00:22:27.921
And we met up with some of his friends, and I think his cousin or his uncle,
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his uncle was playing,
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was playing in that pub.
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Mm-hmm.
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It just felt like such a, I don't know, small town Ireland experience to be like, oh, my brother's playing here tonight with me.
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Oh, my grandpa go over this pub.
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My uncle's playing here.
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Yeah.
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Go to McGraths.
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There was live music from him and his family pretty much every night we were there.
00:22:52.070 --> 00:22:53.601
Same with Lowry's.
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Lots of live music going on, in this town.
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as far as what else we did besides hiking, you had mentioned Kylemore Abbey
00:23:04.951 --> 00:23:06.211
Yeah, it was really fun.
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We got to learn a lot about the history of the building.
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Mm-hmm.
00:23:09.931 --> 00:23:14.131
And there are still nuns that are in the building.
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They continuously change up how they make money in the area.
00:23:21.596 --> 00:23:21.685
Mm-hmm.
00:23:22.736 --> 00:23:27.145
And some things that stick and work out well, they, they keep doing.
00:23:27.205 --> 00:23:32.905
So one thing that we ended up purchasing was chocolate there, which was delicious.
00:23:32.905 --> 00:23:37.016
as far as the Abbey as a whole, it's massive.
00:23:37.165 --> 00:23:37.346
Mm-hmm.
00:23:37.615 --> 00:23:46.465
We came at, I think close to two o'clock, two 30, and they have free tours of the Abbey, and we did that.
00:23:46.465 --> 00:23:53.635
And then after that it was basically closing time, so we didn't actually get a chance to go to the garden, which is beautiful.
00:23:54.026 --> 00:23:56.605
Another kind of church on the property.
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Mm-hmm.
00:23:57.326 --> 00:23:58.496
They didn't get to go to that.
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So if you end up trying to go to Kylemore Abbey, which they suggest it's beautiful, it's like got a beautiful backdrop.
00:24:05.905 --> 00:24:09.986
You gotta give yourself probably at least three full hours before they close.
00:24:10.046 --> 00:24:10.465
Yeah.
00:24:10.885 --> 00:24:13.796
And if you wanna explore and stuff, maybe four or five.
00:24:14.036 --> 00:24:14.875
Yeah, for sure.
00:24:14.875 --> 00:24:19.435
It could definitely be a whole day trip if you wanted to.
00:24:19.435 --> 00:24:19.645
It could
00:24:19.645 --> 00:24:19.885
be.
00:24:19.885 --> 00:24:20.185
Yeah.
00:24:20.246 --> 00:24:25.915
They have a cafe there so you could get snacks, breakfast, lunch, it seemed like.
00:24:26.006 --> 00:24:26.096
Mm-hmm.
00:24:27.115 --> 00:24:28.405
Lots you can do there.
00:24:28.496 --> 00:24:28.736
Yeah.
00:24:28.736 --> 00:24:30.205
It was really beautiful too.
00:24:30.205 --> 00:24:32.605
And as we were walking out, there was a rainbow.
00:24:33.086 --> 00:24:33.955
Super cute.
00:24:34.046 --> 00:24:34.346
Yeah.
00:24:35.215 --> 00:24:35.486
Yeah.
00:24:35.593 --> 00:24:42.762
coming back to Clifden, we, when we ate at guys, we had some really delicious meals.
00:24:42.792 --> 00:24:42.883
Mm-hmm.
00:24:43.143 --> 00:24:49.262
the first night we had butternut squash, coconut and chili soup.
00:24:50.583 --> 00:24:51.423
That was divine.
00:24:52.482 --> 00:24:57.143
then we also got a Caesar salad and then, beef stroganoff.
00:24:57.143 --> 00:24:57.232
Mm-hmm.
00:24:57.989 --> 00:25:06.628
we had also got, on other nights, the chicken go Johns, the beef stew, which was amazing.
00:25:06.628 --> 00:25:08.699
Beef stew, especially paired with a Guinness.
00:25:08.818 --> 00:25:15.278
I don't know what it is about Irish beef stew, but it really hits we also got some dessert here.
00:25:15.278 --> 00:25:15.398
Mm-hmm.
00:25:15.848 --> 00:25:17.648
Moroccan orange cake.
00:25:17.648 --> 00:25:18.098
Lovely.
00:25:18.699 --> 00:25:20.318
Ah, it was so good.
00:25:20.374 --> 00:25:22.773
And then a pistachio cheesecake.
00:25:22.864 --> 00:25:23.013
Yeah.
00:25:23.433 --> 00:25:24.304
Also really good.
00:25:24.483 --> 00:25:24.933
Yes.
00:25:24.993 --> 00:25:25.834
Love pistachio.
00:25:26.614 --> 00:25:28.413
And then at EJ King's
00:25:28.473 --> 00:25:28.594
mm-hmm.
00:25:28.864 --> 00:25:33.003
We had our first experience with a spice bag.
00:25:33.034 --> 00:25:34.054
I think that's a problem.
00:25:34.054 --> 00:25:36.723
It took us this long to have a spice bag.
00:25:36.993 --> 00:25:37.834
It was a problem.
00:25:38.973 --> 00:25:40.233
It definitely was a problem.
00:25:40.653 --> 00:25:41.943
Because it was delicious.
00:25:41.973 --> 00:25:42.364
Yes.
00:25:42.604 --> 00:25:43.564
And I want one now.
00:25:45.844 --> 00:25:48.153
Everything is seasoned to perfection.
00:25:48.203 --> 00:25:54.384
they have a lot of spices on them, and then you can dip them in like a curry sauce, maybe a mustard.
00:25:54.653 --> 00:25:55.703
So good.
00:25:55.824 --> 00:25:56.094
Delicious.
00:25:56.094 --> 00:25:57.144
So delicious.
00:25:57.144 --> 00:25:59.453
And then we also got a chicken sandwich.
00:25:59.874 --> 00:26:01.284
That was amazing as well.
00:26:01.357 --> 00:26:06.048
We also got a Bailey's and chocolate cheesecake that was amazing as well.
00:26:06.053 --> 00:26:06.083
Mm-hmm.
00:26:06.182 --> 00:26:11.673
Yeah, highly recommend going here, especially if you want kind of like a bar pub environment.
00:26:11.702 --> 00:26:11.792
Mm-hmm.
00:26:12.303 --> 00:26:22.383
And then for lunch, the day that we were heading out, we went to Griffin's Pub and we got a Cajun chicken with spicy mayo wrap.
00:26:22.445 --> 00:26:25.593
That was so delicious.
00:26:25.623 --> 00:26:25.712
Mm-hmm.
00:26:26.343 --> 00:26:27.692
It was so good.
00:26:27.692 --> 00:26:32.192
I wish that we would've came here sooner'cause I would've gotten that a lot more.
00:26:32.522 --> 00:26:33.752
That was fantastic.
00:26:33.752 --> 00:26:39.873
This is like dark horse, like one of the best like single items we might've ate,
00:26:40.292 --> 00:26:40.833
honestly.
00:26:40.833 --> 00:26:41.042
Yeah.
00:26:41.042 --> 00:26:41.853
Mm-hmm.
00:26:41.883 --> 00:26:45.032
We also got a chicken on sourdough sandwich,
00:26:45.063 --> 00:26:46.053
which was good as well.
00:26:46.113 --> 00:26:46.863
It was good.
00:26:46.863 --> 00:26:51.722
But the Cajun chicken with spicy mayo wrap was out of this world.
00:26:51.752 --> 00:26:51.843
Mm-hmm.
00:26:52.368 --> 00:26:58.489
And because it was off season, they didn't have their point of sale system up yet, so it was the only place I'm pretty sure.
00:26:59.568 --> 00:27:04.398
On the entire trip, that was like, you have to use cash.
00:27:04.398 --> 00:27:04.848
Mm-hmm.
00:27:06.019 --> 00:27:09.828
It was the only place, otherwise, every place else was tap card and Good.
00:27:09.828 --> 00:27:10.068
Go.
00:27:10.068 --> 00:27:11.028
This was like, yep.
00:27:11.269 --> 00:27:12.169
Still outta season.
00:27:12.169 --> 00:27:13.398
So cash only.
00:27:13.909 --> 00:27:14.088
Yeah.
00:27:14.838 --> 00:27:18.739
Make sure you have some cash on you and get this wrap.
00:27:18.864 --> 00:27:19.153
Yeah.
00:27:20.445 --> 00:27:22.786
the restaurants were really nice.
00:27:22.816 --> 00:27:25.576
I again wish that more were open.
00:27:25.635 --> 00:27:25.756
Mm-hmm.
00:27:26.415 --> 00:27:33.105
I think though that Clifden was a homey kind of town.
00:27:33.165 --> 00:27:33.316
Yeah.
00:27:33.645 --> 00:27:45.576
it seemed like everybody kind of knows each other and I really appreciated that at this point in the trip, It seemed like a place that we could envision ourselves a little bit more
00:27:45.635 --> 00:27:45.726
mm-hmm.
00:27:46.175 --> 00:27:52.306
Than, Teelin, which is a really spread out, place.
00:27:52.605 --> 00:27:56.445
Very like sparsely populated.
00:27:56.776 --> 00:27:56.865
Yeah.
00:27:56.865 --> 00:28:01.846
You know, it's, it's not, you get on a street and walk down and there's a restaurant house
00:28:02.205 --> 00:28:02.476
mm-hmm.
00:28:02.566 --> 00:28:04.635
Bunch of different facilities.
00:28:04.635 --> 00:28:05.596
Grocery store.
00:28:06.105 --> 00:28:08.566
That's not what Teelin was, but that's what Clifden was.
00:28:08.685 --> 00:28:08.865
Mm-hmm.
00:28:09.435 --> 00:28:10.875
At least downtown Clifden.
00:28:11.056 --> 00:28:14.536
I'm sure it's bigger than just the area that we stayed in.
00:28:14.722 --> 00:28:18.563
But it was so nice there, there wasn't a ton of people.
00:28:19.133 --> 00:28:21.682
There were a bunch of restaurants just all closed.
00:28:21.682 --> 00:28:23.212
'cause it was off season.
00:28:24.518 --> 00:28:28.417
Grocery store that we went into, bunch of pubs.
00:28:28.778 --> 00:28:31.028
Everyone was friendly to us.
00:28:31.268 --> 00:28:31.597
Yeah.
00:28:31.627 --> 00:28:35.347
Like I said, the one thing we ran into was not like a ton of coffee places.
00:28:35.347 --> 00:28:36.488
So you were kind of like, eh.
00:28:38.407 --> 00:28:38.798
Yeah.
00:28:38.857 --> 00:28:43.147
I had a little rough go of it with the coffee situation.
00:28:43.147 --> 00:28:47.198
I mean, they do have coffee at the bed and breakfast as well.
00:28:47.250 --> 00:28:49.351
I'm just very picky about my coffee.
00:28:49.471 --> 00:28:50.010
You are.
00:28:50.340 --> 00:28:50.611
Yeah.
00:28:50.661 --> 00:28:55.260
I feel like each place you get a different version of yourself.
00:28:55.298 --> 00:29:01.939
from Wicklow to Donegal to now county, Galway, Clifden.
00:29:01.939 --> 00:29:06.199
Each place is a different version of me, I feel like.
00:29:06.409 --> 00:29:06.828
Yeah.
00:29:07.098 --> 00:29:11.439
And this was much more like small town living.
00:29:11.858 --> 00:29:12.219
Hmm.
00:29:12.278 --> 00:29:25.419
You could very easily see yourself living in this small town, having a job, getting groceries, doing laundry, talking to this person, going to the pub, going home is kind of what it felt like to me.
00:29:25.753 --> 00:29:26.173
Mm-hmm.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It seemed like it was easier to envision us here mm-hmm.
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Than in the other places that we visited.
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Right.
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Just because it was an you know, an actual town mm-hmm.
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Where you could walk to places where you could see other people where Right.
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There is a grocery store there.
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Yeah.
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but it also wasn't too big.
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'cause there are some places that are too big.
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It was like, just like the perfect size little town.
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And there's all of this beauty surrounding it.
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Mm-hmm.
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I mean, you walk for 10 minutes and you're on Sky Road.
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Mm-hmm.
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And it's out of this world.
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Beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Like you're, is this even real, I mean, at points on Sky Road, I was just like, I can't believe this place is real.
00:30:16.669 --> 00:30:16.909
Yeah.
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did you get the feeling here?
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No, I don't think so.
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It, it wasn't something that.
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Really grabbed me.
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It's again, a place where if someone said like, Hey, you have to live here, would I be happy?
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Of course.
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Yeah.
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But it, it is not some place where I'm like, we gotta move here.
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It's, this is the place just not for me.
00:30:38.741 --> 00:30:39.192
Yeah.
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What about you?
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No, I didn't either.
00:30:42.221 --> 00:30:48.791
I think I got the feeling slightly more only because I could see it a little bit more.
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Yeah.
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it also felt like, if we wanted to go do something mm-hmm.
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We would have to go out to the bars, to the pubs.
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Mm-hmm.
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And while that is, you know, a thing that a lot of.
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People go and do.
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Mm-hmm.
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And there's no hate on that.
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that's just not something that I see for us all the time.
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I also think with restaurants being closed, it didn't give me a full picture.
00:31:13.038 --> 00:31:13.338
Yeah.
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But it gave me a picture of what it would look like outside of tourist season.
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which is such a huge benefit because that's half the year, over half the year potentially.
00:31:23.308 --> 00:31:24.148
Absolutely.
00:31:24.398 --> 00:31:28.989
As far as visiting here, just for someone coming to.
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Have a vacation.
00:31:30.128 --> 00:31:30.459
Yeah.
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I would highly recommend coming here.
00:31:32.365 --> 00:31:35.605
if you're a hiker doing the hike, it is beautiful.
00:31:35.654 --> 00:31:42.615
I also think the Abbey, walking along the water in some of those spots mm-hmm.
00:31:43.095 --> 00:31:49.884
walking around the town, visiting some pubs, drinking some Guinness, doing Sky Road.
00:31:49.884 --> 00:31:49.944
Yeah.
00:31:50.125 --> 00:31:55.015
I think all of these things are definite things that I would come back for.
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And I would recommend people go and do these things.
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'cause the beauty here is just, it's life changing.
00:32:03.528 --> 00:32:04.489
It really is.
00:32:04.489 --> 00:32:11.868
There were parts of this part of the trip where I felt like my life had changed.
00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:12.108
Mm-hmm.
00:32:12.528 --> 00:32:15.169
Just because I was able to see some of this beauty.
00:32:15.169 --> 00:32:15.229
Yeah.
00:32:15.884 --> 00:32:28.295
it, we've talked about it before, it's a part of some of our travels where you see something or you do something and it's so beautiful that you start to think how small you are mm-hmm.
00:32:28.535 --> 00:32:29.974
In the world and Yeah.
00:32:29.974 --> 00:32:38.944
how sometimes we catastrophize things in our lives that are really meaningless.
00:32:38.974 --> 00:32:39.095
Mm-hmm.
00:32:39.588 --> 00:32:49.969
not to say that things that bother you don't hold any weight, because they certainly do, but I think that sometimes it's important to get that reminder that.
00:32:49.969 --> 00:32:51.888
Things are bigger than you.
00:32:52.308 --> 00:32:52.788
Yeah.
00:32:52.848 --> 00:32:56.179
That the world and the universe is bigger than you.
00:32:56.233 --> 00:32:56.653
Mm-hmm.
00:32:57.499 --> 00:32:59.868
And I think that's what this part of the trip did for me.
00:33:00.769 --> 00:33:01.159
Yeah.
00:33:01.413 --> 00:33:02.449
I, I feel that.
00:33:02.628 --> 00:33:03.378
I really do.
00:33:03.528 --> 00:33:06.979
I saw this I quote the other day that really resonates with that.
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And I wrote it down.
00:33:08.568 --> 00:33:12.828
It's wander long enough and even questions start to feel like answers.
00:33:12.888 --> 00:33:12.919
Mm.
00:33:13.608 --> 00:33:17.148
And that really kinda like vibes with that.
00:33:17.193 --> 00:33:21.875
And I really enjoy what you said there because That's, it's so true.
00:33:21.875 --> 00:33:23.765
That's exactly what it was.
00:33:23.765 --> 00:33:26.525
It just kind of let everything else fall away.
00:33:26.765 --> 00:33:27.035
Yeah.
00:33:27.035 --> 00:33:30.785
You know, all the problems that are in the world right now.
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appreciate the world and the stillness for a moment.
00:33:35.285 --> 00:33:37.714
And I think that's what you can get in a lot of Ireland.
00:33:37.714 --> 00:33:42.035
And I think that's why a lot of people go to Ireland is to look for that stillness.
00:33:42.545 --> 00:33:43.144
Yeah.
00:33:43.150 --> 00:33:43.279
Mm-hmm.
00:33:43.365 --> 00:33:51.694
The stillness, the quietness, you just get to experience these views that just remind you that the world is so big mm-hmm.
00:33:53.194 --> 00:33:54.335
And much bigger than you.
00:33:54.378 --> 00:34:02.598
And even though Ireland is this small island, it's about the size of a lot of our states in the United States.
00:34:02.598 --> 00:34:03.078
So,
00:34:03.288 --> 00:34:07.219
but it's like one of the most beautiful places we've ever been to.
00:34:07.439 --> 00:34:07.628
Mm-hmm.
00:34:07.709 --> 00:34:09.028
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:09.168 --> 00:34:10.588
Clifden specifically.
00:34:10.768 --> 00:34:11.123
Mm-hmm.
00:34:11.123 --> 00:34:19.793
I think it's, it's definitely a place that I think we both can agree that if people are looking for a place to go county, Galway and Clifden is definitely a good stop.
00:34:19.793 --> 00:34:22.824
That you should probably go on your trip.
00:34:22.869 --> 00:34:23.159
Yeah.
00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:23.436
Mm-hmm.
00:34:23.436 --> 00:34:24.637
I agree.
00:34:25.126 --> 00:34:37.427
Anything else you're thinking about this portion of our trip from the castle to, you know, the hike, the beach, any places we ate the people?
00:34:38.023 --> 00:34:39.793
I really loved it here.
00:34:39.873 --> 00:34:41.103
So beautiful.
00:34:41.463 --> 00:34:43.503
Just totally worth it.
00:34:43.532 --> 00:34:55.063
Even if you just do a trip from, Dublin to Clifden and you rent a car for that, maybe go to our next stop too.
00:34:55.777 --> 00:34:56.197
Mm-hmm.
00:34:57.672 --> 00:34:59.922
Because our next stop was one of my favorites.
00:35:00.032 --> 00:35:06.152
I do think that renting a car is totally worth it in Ireland.
00:35:06.157 --> 00:35:06.327
Mm-hmm.
00:35:07.068 --> 00:35:07.288
Now.
00:35:08.057 --> 00:35:12.527
You do have a lot of small roads.
00:35:12.588 --> 00:35:12.677
Mm-hmm.
00:35:13.608 --> 00:35:20.057
And I think going into Clifden, there were also cliffs that we were driving on the edge of as well.
00:35:20.088 --> 00:35:20.568
Oh, definitely.
00:35:20.568 --> 00:35:21.047
At points.
00:35:21.047 --> 00:35:21.228
Yeah.
00:35:21.527 --> 00:35:22.007
Yeah.
00:35:22.097 --> 00:35:22.463
just be careful.
00:35:22.682 --> 00:35:23.103
Mm-hmm.
00:35:23.182 --> 00:35:23.302
Be
00:35:23.387 --> 00:35:24.257
careful out there.
00:35:24.262 --> 00:35:24.382
Mm-hmm.
00:35:24.677 --> 00:35:26.657
But I think it's worth it to rent a car.
00:35:27.018 --> 00:35:27.677
Yeah, for
00:35:27.677 --> 00:35:27.768
sure.
00:35:27.768 --> 00:35:39.514
And I think the way we did this trip too was so beautiful because we went from, the Wicklow Mountains By Dublin.
00:35:39.583 --> 00:35:47.983
we did a long trip all the way to Donegal, which is stunning, but it's very isolated.
00:35:47.983 --> 00:35:48.284
Mm-hmm.
00:35:48.409 --> 00:35:56.762
And then we did Lough Rynn Castle just for the one night, it kind of gave us that breather of we're not gonna do our hikes.
00:35:56.762 --> 00:35:58.233
we're just gonna rest here.
00:35:58.233 --> 00:36:00.813
eat food, we're gonna enjoy ourselves.
00:36:01.023 --> 00:36:02.222
It gave us that night.
00:36:02.228 --> 00:36:02.237
Mm-hmm.
00:36:02.552 --> 00:36:07.402
And then we went to Clifden and there's just this indescribable beauty.
00:36:07.432 --> 00:36:13.583
And after that rest night, I think it helped us appreciate it so much more.
00:36:14.063 --> 00:36:19.103
So I think we crafted this trip very nicely.
00:36:19.436 --> 00:36:25.119
and I think that if people wanted to, they could use our trip as a reference of what they should do.
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:25.268
For sure.
00:36:25.753 --> 00:36:27.068
'cause I think it was perfect.
00:36:27.188 --> 00:36:27.369
Yeah.
00:36:27.398 --> 00:36:27.938
I really do.
00:36:28.028 --> 00:36:29.708
I think it was a really good blueprint.
00:36:30.219 --> 00:36:33.639
Of course, you're never gonna get everything right in a trip.
00:36:33.938 --> 00:36:39.278
Someone's gonna say, you know, you didn't go into Northern Ireland, you didn't see Giants Causeway Belfast.
00:36:39.728 --> 00:36:45.369
Of course we didn't go all the way to the Southern points of Ireland.
00:36:45.373 --> 00:36:45.594
Mm-hmm.
00:36:45.969 --> 00:36:48.458
Didn't get to see a lot of the East Coast.
00:36:49.298 --> 00:36:56.679
But this was a really good blueprint for people to maybe copy use parts of for their own trip.
00:36:56.978 --> 00:36:57.398
Yeah.
00:36:57.398 --> 00:37:00.909
And it was a nice starting point for Ireland.
00:37:00.909 --> 00:37:06.998
Like I think we should go back and see the places that we haven't seen in the future.
00:37:06.998 --> 00:37:07.418
Right.
00:37:07.659 --> 00:37:14.469
But I think this was a really good starting point for me'cause you've seen Ireland.
00:37:14.688 --> 00:37:17.483
but for me to see Ireland for the first time, yeah.
00:37:18.289 --> 00:37:20.389
I just really love the way we, we did it.
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:21.048
Yeah.
00:37:21.409 --> 00:37:22.458
What about you?
00:37:22.489 --> 00:37:26.418
Do you have any final points or any thoughts?
00:37:26.418 --> 00:37:30.179
Clifden's great and I think there's lots to do.
00:37:30.179 --> 00:37:45.748
We even had a day where it was pretty much rainy the whole day, and we were just able to go on a drive and see the scenery from the car, which sometimes isn't always great, but here there's a lot of great roads to drive on.
00:37:45.748 --> 00:37:46.619
Mm-hmm.
00:37:46.625 --> 00:37:47.114
And just.
00:37:47.893 --> 00:37:50.893
Marvel at the beauty, like you've said, we've said so many times.
00:37:50.923 --> 00:37:52.244
It is just gorgeous out there.
00:37:52.304 --> 00:37:53.233
You have to see it.
00:37:53.474 --> 00:37:55.664
None of our pictures are gonna do it justice.
00:37:55.664 --> 00:38:00.853
None of our videos are gonna do it justice because we didn't videotape and record 24 7.
00:38:00.853 --> 00:38:04.423
There are plenty of times, so we passed some and we're like, oh, we should have gotten a picture of that.
00:38:04.483 --> 00:38:04.724
Yeah,
00:38:04.813 --> 00:38:08.864
because it is something that you have to see.
00:38:09.583 --> 00:38:09.824
Yeah.
00:38:09.824 --> 00:38:10.963
We're still new to this.
00:38:10.994 --> 00:38:11.233
Yeah.
00:38:11.773 --> 00:38:12.434
We're still babies,
00:38:13.550 --> 00:38:24.141
in the town of Clifden it, it could just be a nice time to go stay there, go to some pubs, go to some restaurants, go do a few hikes.
00:38:24.141 --> 00:38:26.061
It seems like a great town to go do that.
00:38:26.271 --> 00:38:26.661
Yeah.
00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:27.021
So
00:38:27.021 --> 00:38:27.380
I agree.
00:38:27.380 --> 00:38:28.521
Really enjoyed it.
00:38:28.521 --> 00:38:31.550
But I'm really excited for our next episode as well.
00:38:32.001 --> 00:38:33.050
I am too.
00:38:33.050 --> 00:38:34.280
I loved it here.
00:38:34.340 --> 00:38:34.431
Mm-hmm.
00:38:34.860 --> 00:38:47.791
our next episode is about dingle, which is also gorgeous, and we will talk about all of the pubs, all of the local spots that we went to.
00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:48.061
Mm-hmm.
00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:51.871
Along with a hike where we got ran off by a sheep.
00:38:54.150 --> 00:38:55.260
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