I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 390. Today the amateur traveler talks about

castles and fairy forts and a tomb older than the pyramids as we go back to

Ireland. Welcome to the

I got to sit in one more cafe.

I know that I should be heading home

but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. We don't have a

sponsor for this week's episode but I do want to thank two companies that

helped me in my recent tour of Ireland. The first one is Homestay.

Homestay.com does homestays that are paid homestays within someone's home.

And Homestay dot com gave me a three day stay with Liz and Mick and honestly I think we may be lifelong friends so it really was a wonderful experience and I looked and in Dublin the cost of a home stay is typically in the range of say 25 to 40 or 50 euros but that's per room so that might be

one to three people. Pretty good deal and then you also get to meet some of the locals.

I also want to thank dawn to dusk. i.e which

does photo tours in Dublin and I did two photo tours with them a night photo

tour and then also one that I would particularly recommend which is a photo

tour down to the south coast.

And you'll be seeing some pictures on the amateur traveler and a blog post about both of those companies.

Before we get into talking about Ireland today, I have three news stories for you.

In the UK two pilots turned in themselves because they had both fallen asleep mid-flight.

One was supposed to be taking a nap while the other one stayed awake.

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