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

in my passport photo

15 Amateur Traveler episode 769. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about cliffs and crags, pubs and parks,

winding roads and traditional music as we go to Western Ireland.

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. Let's talk about Ireland.

I'd like to welcome the show Adam Ryan from as Adam goes.com

Adam has come to talk to us about Ireland and more specifically the wild

Atlantic way. Adam welcome to the show.

Hi Chris, thanks for having me on.

I'm really happy to be here.

And as people may be able to tell here from your accent,

you know a little bit about Ireland.

I do indeed. It's my home country. I'm from Ireland. I've lived here my whole life. I decided to move to the state and I kind of that got cut short because of COVID. And I came back really and when I came home it kind of opened my mind. Well I didn't open my mind it kind of forced me to enjoy my own country because with travel restrictions and you couldn't really leave and you would go to go anywhere else.

So it gave me some time to really discover what Ireland has to offer because I was a little man from Dublin and I've never really left before that I'd never really

went to a few places around Ireland but not much so when I came home I kind of I had the

travel bug and I wanted to really explore Ireland and ever since when on my weekends I'm still exploring next weekend I'm going to carry.

I love Ireland now. It's made me appreciate my country a lot more

excellent and why should someone come to Ireland?

Ireland is not a hidden gem but it's expensive a lot of people they'll brush it to one side

especially if you're from a country that the economy is ingrained you think Ireland's

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