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My name is Colleen Patrick Gudro and I am your host.

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I hope you're all doing well.

On the day this episode goes live, I will be flying from London to Belfast and then renting a car to go spend the day up north at the Giants Causeway, this amazing geological wonder.

If you haven't seen it just type in Giants Cause. this amazing geological wonder.

If you haven't seen it, just type in Giants Causeway.

And that's where I'm going to be spending the day

and then we're going to be driving back down to Belfast

where we'll take the train to Dublin

and we'll spend the following week in Dublin. We're going to meet some

fabulous Dubliners at an event that the group vegan Ireland has organized, which is on Wednesday,

November 5th. So if you're hearing this and you're in Ireland near Dublin,

I hope you can join us. And by now, by the time you listen, I'll have already been to London

and have had the vegan drinks meeting all of you at London

vegan drinks but I'm not even in London yet so I'm recording this before I go

so that we didn't have to delay the episode and that you didn't have to wait for one since I like to stay on schedule

but I'm aware of what the day will be on the day we release this.

And so of course when I get home I look forward to filling you in on all of my escapades in London and in Dublin. And don't forget I already have a couple episodes on Ireland

and the UK there's one on York and there's the Lake Country and there is Edinburgh

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