Welcome to Episode 060 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast.
My therapist would object to the way I was going to start this pod, so instead I’ll say ‘thank you for bearing with me and accepting the slightly less-than-regular issuing of this pod’.
Anyhoo. I have an excuse this time, and it’s very much the subject of this pod. I’ve been away from home, on a road trip around Ireland for a week and a half. My friend Anne-Laure wanted to visit Ireland and in summer 2020 we’d sketched out plans to do a 10-day trip there, but things kept getting in the way. Mainly Covid. But we finally managed to get there in mid-July 2022, and because of being away, it seemed the most obvious thing to pod about.
Topics discussed in this episode are:
- Non-Binary day, week, and socialising
- Background to our road trip, and what made it unusual as far as my trips are concerned
- Irish sport, and resulting travel concerns
- Dublin Student Accommodation
- Our various B&B stays across the country
- St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin
- Other religious sites visited, often called St Mary’s
- The joy of Knock
- Various country houses and ruined abbeys
- The Rock of Cashel
- Ruins of Ancient Ireland
- The Burren
- The Isle of Inis Mor and the Cliffs of Moher
- Dingle
- Father Ted
- The Asexual Capital Of The World
- A distinct lack of road signs
- Beer and sausage rolls
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My friend AnneLaure provided the introduction, whilst my friend V gave the interspersions, which are all song lyrics spoken in completely not the correct rhythm. This is on purpose.