688 Maeve Higgins’ County Cork; Southwest England; Glasgow Cool
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
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🗓️ 10 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Humorist Maeve Higgins recommends places to visit in her home turf of Ireland's County Cork. Then tour guides from southwest England share their expert advice on where best to enjoy the coastal beauty of Cornwall and Devon — and the tourist traps to avoid. And guides from Scotland describe what makes Glasgow such a cool city to explore.
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| 0:00.0 | Maeve Higgins recommends her home base of county cork as a great place to spend time in Ireland. |
| 0:07.0 | What I would say about cork, and this is fact, it's the biggest county. Again, facts, the most beautiful women are from cork. |
| 0:15.0 | And again, facts, the best storytellers and the most gorgeous stout. |
| 0:19.0 | We'll also explore the seaside beauty of the counties of Cornwall and Devon, a southwest tip of England. |
| 0:24.0 | Beautiful fishing villages, very ancient fishing villages, thousands of years old, some of them. |
| 0:28.0 | You feel as if you were walking two or three centuries ago. |
| 0:31.0 | And we'll get a taste of the working-class charm that gives Scotland's biggest city its friendly edge. |
| 0:36.0 | Glasgow's famous for the Glasgow humour, the Glasgow pattern. |
| 0:39.0 | We do like to say that in Glasgow, you'll have a better time at a funeral than you'll have at a wedding in Edinburgh. |
| 0:44.0 | Come along for the hour ahead, as hometown guides, share different slices of the Celtic world. |
| 0:49.0 | From Glasgow, and the deep south of Ireland, and England. |
| 0:53.0 | It's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:01.0 | Irish-born comedian Mae Higgins has hometown advice for enjoying the best of the old sod in County cork in a minute. |
| 1:08.0 | And guides from Scotland and England share insider tips for fun times in Glasgow and the scenic southwest counties of Devon and Cornwall. |
| 1:16.0 | That's all just ahead on today's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:20.0 | She was just another one of the girls from a large Catholic family in a small town in Ireland's County cork. |
| 1:26.0 | And from that springboard, she moved to America and is having a grand old time exploring her place in the world. |
| 1:33.0 | Mae Higgins has been making waves with her starring roles in the movie Extra Ordinary. |
| 1:38.0 | And the play, Autumn Royal, both set in her home turf, a little outside of cork city. |
| 1:44.0 | She's also written a book called Tell Everyone On This Train That I Love Them, to share her views from New York City during the pandemic. |
| 1:51.0 | Mae Higgins joins us now on travel with Rick Steves to give us some insider perspectives on what we should look for next time we're in the south of Ireland. |
| 1:59.0 | Mae, thanks for joining us. |
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