“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown I think a lot of people move…
Category: Wild Atlantic Way
IF you’re cruising around Cork
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…” – Francis Bacon The weekend before I moved to New York, I went on a road trip with my sister, Hannah to Cork. We went…
IF you wander to Westport
“Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.” – J.R.R. Tolkien This weekend, my sister and my mother…
IF you’re considering the Cliffs of Moher
“As you wish…” – Westley [The Princess Bride, William Goldman] One of my favourite movies (and books) of all time is The Princess Bride. If you haven’t seen it, please know that you’re missing out and do everything in your power to rectify that as soon as possible! It’s a wonderful movie with a cult…
IF you’re killing time in Kinvara
“Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.” – George Bernard Shaw And that’s exactly what I am going to do, I am going to…
IF you’re pondering perfume in the West of Ireland
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson While driving the Wild Atlantic Way, we stopped by The Burren Perfumery and it was outstanding. It reminded me of my favourite perfumery in Paris (which I’ve written about previously here). I just had to take pictures…
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