Hi my loves, hope you enjoy! What a week! Felt like we finally got to experience what makes the wild Atlantic way so… wild! 🙂 Say hi in the comments and let us know what you think, big love from us x
Just retired, the time has come to realize the dream of exploring my Irish heritage. This series has my undivided attention. Though I have been following you since Halifax, NS. Love what you’ve done. I think you are truly extraordinary people. So professional. And inspiring. PS My grandmother believed in the faeries and would get very upset when anyone would say they weren’t real. 🧚 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚
You guys were just a few miles from us... The walls on the Burren are field boundaries. Unlike most parts of the world, cattle traditionally were put up on the mountains in winter, not brought down. The limestone stores summer warmth, and nutritious herbs grow all winter in those cracks in the rock (grikes) so cows did well up there.
I understand that there's an agri management program to ensure that farmers continue to overwinter their cattle on the hills of the Burren to ensure the very continuity of the landscape itself.
Hello and hugs from northern California. I never imagined that Ireland would have such wild and rugged terrain. I especially enjoy your photography from up above. Could watch it over and over.
Hugs to you and Dan, Bonnie 💛 Ireland is really rugged... and we haven't even hit the most rugged parts yet! Hope all is good with you in California. Sending lots of love from us xx
You guys are inspiring as ever. I love this scenery and mystic vibes. The sea weed bit gave the much needed belly laughs. So cute, so fun. Love you guys !! -Agnes, Ziggy & Stardust 😊🐶🐶💞
if ever there was a video that should be sponsored, or at least rewarded by "BORD FAILTE", (irish tourist board) then it is this one. as a sometimes homesick irishman,living in brittany i must say you completely nailed this in every sense. first time discovering your site and i think the tv will be unpluged tonight. HOOKED
@OverlandingSophia if you plan on heading to Achill Island on the way, the Croghaun cliffs and Keem beach are unmissable too! Downpatrick Head is also nearby and well worth a visit
We did a week in July this year and I'd say it rained 80 percent of the time but we loved every minute! A beautiful place. We met a couple who'd been there for 10 weeks and had still only made it to Clare travelling north!! Ireland has so much to see I think its best to do what you did and not try to cram it all in to a 2 week break. We will definitely be returning. Thanks for the videos we loved them. pats for the dogs x
I have sat and watched with awe of travels around the world. Now I watch with pride (sometimes tears) of how you are showing off my beautiful country. Also how you have picked up on our culture, sayings and embraced us. I can only wish you ever bit of Irish luck through out your lives. ☘️
Hi Guys, I live in Ireland and I am blowing away with your video, I have watched other van life videos of their visit to Ireland but your content is fantastic, you have shown Ireland at it's best with the places you have visited, I am looking forward to your next video, cheers guys.
Chesca and Ben, the way you are documenting your adventures in Ireland have really stepped up a notch since your travels in the Americas. As before, you guys are your genuine selves on camera. It's so refreshing and genuine that there is none of the hyperbole that seems to be the number one tool in many social media personality's clickbait armoury. Your storytelling is as good as any professional scriptwriters', and seems so natural, and you are obviously having a lot of fun too. Your filming/editing has developed a more cinematic approach really highlighting the beauty of the places you are visiting. Love the uncontrollable giggles at Ben's elephant snot 😄. It feels like you are finding a better pace for your travels and the results are shining through the films you are producing. Love watching your journey up the Wild Atlantic Way. We are just leaving in our van for a southern voyage to get the last of the European summer. We will be following you from there.
Really appreciate this, thank you so much for the kind words and appreciation for our slightly new way of doing things! We feel like we have space and time to travel and film now, changing to one video every 2 weeks has been almost life changing in the freedom it's given us back. Creatively we were burning out all the time but now it feels so different. It's really lovely to know it's noticed, so thank you. Enjoy your European sun! We're gonna be doing the opposite and heading to Scotland for the autumn! 🥶 xx
Beautiful video as always ❤ You guys have nailed the perfect combo of audio/ music selection with the video sections. Just love your editing. So well done :)
The trouble with Mullaghmore is that there's various walks. Mullaghnore itself has 3 or 4 walks of varying difficulties, then there's the nature trail (which is severely underrated if you like plants) and there's the Lough Avalla Farm Loop which is a really nice short hike with the cosiest cafe at the end - additionally too Fr Ted's house adds to the footfall
The Burren is sooo amazing. Nice caves there too. An Irish couple in a pub told me the walls were built to clear more land for the grass to grow. During the famine they wouldn't just give the starving people food, they made them do backbreaking work for it by building pointless walls going up into the mountains. Its such a sad part of history.
@@OverlandingSophia There actually was no famine- it was a mass genocide ( the great hunger). The British exported the food from Ireland to England and starved the Irish to death- and yes they made the starving Irish beg for food by means of building pointless walls. Not getting at you but it is such an insult to Irish people to deny it was a genocide. Ireland is beautiful, I'm so delighted you enjoyed my. home - your content was great 😊
@@JackieFitzpatrick-m1m I absolutely, whole-heartedly agree with you. I use the term famine because that's what the person in the comment referred to it as, and many people do. I'm under no illusion as to what it really was - a mass slaughter and genocide by the English, not to mention the forced displacement as millions fled to avoid a fate worse than death, creating a diaspora of refugees that halved the Irish population. I find it disgusting as an English person that we are taught about the famine as though it was a natural disaster. I stand in utter shame at what we did.
@@OverlandingSophia Don't be too ashamed !!😉you had nothing to do with it.... In Ireland we were taught the same if at all!! Lots of revisionist stuff and lies- Thank you for your reply, and thankfully many of us aren't afraid to hear the truth. Continued happy travelling ☘☘
Yet I am only English because of the famine, because my great grandfather and great grandmothers families fled to work in the pottery's in Stoke. Which means that there is so much more affinity with the Irish people worldwide now because they have spread to every corner of the globe. Which is good because history will never be repeated. And it led to the Irish people making a stand and formation of the Republic. Its also worth remembering that the vast majority of people in England had no clue what was happening and were horrified when news finally filtered through. Its more likely it was greed, ignorance and incompetence that didn't stop the tragedy, than intentional mass murder of their cheap labour force.
I can't find the words to express how much I enjoy your Ireland videos. You seem so much much more at peace and it really translates in your videography and I'm soo here for it!!
This really means so much, thank you 🥹 It's been a whole new way of working/filming and travelling since coming home and we're really enjoying the new pace. So happy this comes through in the videos too 💛
Definitely, the more I see in your travels, the more I know Bryn and I need an expedition to Ireland. So many Celtic and older sacred places to visit. Looking forward to the next episode, love Sue and Bryn xx
Your videos of Ireland are fabulous... I'm Irish and live in the west and the beauty of the varying landscapes still catch my breath and the sense of that other world presence... the history and mythology overlapping seemlessly seems totally natural and real.. and is expressed so well in generations of Irish literature..
“History and mythology overlapping seamlessly” - couldn’t have said it better, this is one of the things that spellbinds me with Ireland. It’s a country that’s so alive in so many ways. Means a lot that you’re enjoying the videos, thank you 💛
When I was in Oregon just recently I stopped and ate at a food truck called Woggy's and they had the best fish and chips and fish tacos, I had to go there 4 times while in the area of Gold Beach. Great video, loving thee scenery.
I was going to wax poetic about your beautiful choice of music, the stunning vistas even with the fog, the history of the Fairies and the scenes of River and Scout being their adorable selves🐾🐾♥ but then the two of you were sitting in the whiskey barrel with Ben with seaweed scum stuck to him and DH and I were just 🤣🤣🤣. Too funny. Now I seem to remember that seaweed is used in beauty products so my serious question is did you feel a difference with your skin after you de-slimed? 😄
Hahah the slime on Ben's face a la Ghostbusters will be forever etched into my memory. Our skin did feel softer actually! Ben said he's lost about 3 wrinkles 😂 💛
I loved this vlog so much. I'm so glad that you have found Ireland "feels alive in every sense of the word" as you so eloquently said. To me Ireland feels like history and folklore blended together, the landscape feels ancient but not just in a geological way, in an ancestral way, as though the past watches over us . Many people feel this strongly at Glendalough but for me it's the Boyne valley that feels the most ancient and mythological. It's difficult to put into words how Ireland feels, it just has to be experienced. Thanks for telling the story of the fairy tree that was saved from the motorway, it's a story that all the locals know . I'm glad it's reaching an international audience. Safe travels x
"History and folklore blended together" - this exactly! Ancient in an ancestral way... couldn't have said it better. There's just something so alive about Ireland that really has to be experienced. Fallen deeply in love with this country, it's people and it's landscapes. It's a special place and this comment means a lot, so thank you 🙏 xx
THAT'S MY HOME! I'm living in Montreal, Canada now and watching you 2 discovering the place I grew up is fantastic! I got pretty emotional actually. Best of luck with the rest of your exploring and I hope the weather is on your side! Loving your adventures and your story telling! Slan go foil!
Also check out, Grange stone circle near Grange Co Limerick. Also near by is a Dolman going back five thousand years. No tourists come to this place and plenty of parking space.
Ben please forgive me for laughing at your slimy mess. Your expression as the slime slid down your face like a waterfall. I needed that 😂😂😂. The views you two are sharing are breathtaking. I look forward to your next video. ❤❤❤
Great video's and I absolutely must agree there is magic. mysticism.paganism.religion.and fairies in Ireland. There is energy all around and in the ground in the ocean and rivers. It's a stunning place, and I feel so proud to be Irish and to live here. Well done you two ye get it..ye get that its awesome and special and ancient and needs to be protected. P.s love yer beautiful dogs. Hey..seaweed is so good for us..those baths are fantastic. Next ye need to taste carrigeen pudding..its a gorgeous dessert using dried seaweed to thicken it. Yum.
And when you wrote that reply you hadn't yet known you have Irish roots. It's brilliant. Maybe Ben has too...cos ye both def got the soul and the magic of this wonderful place.
Totally enthralling!! Takes a very artistic eye to do this special kind of video! I have Irish ancestry myself even though never visited. My heart was in my mouth…..🥰
Enjoyed that. Before I emigrated to Australia 30 years ago I spent a decade exploring the caves of The Burren with my mates. A wild yet beautiful corner of the Country
I absolutely love your channel , I just Love you eating the fish and chips and the big belch, loved it . Thanks visiting my country. If you’re ever back in Ireland and passing through Limerick . Check out the Parnell grill. Best fish and chips in the World.
Hi Guys. Love the videos. The Burren is the largest 'Karst' landscape in the British Isles and the blocks and trenches are features called 'Clint and Gryke' scenery. The Clints are the blocks, the grykes are the fissures between. I and my partner Patricia live in Carrickfergus on the north shore of Belfast Lough. Not sure if you are planning to head into the north of Ireland but we would love to buy you a pint or two if you are. Some good parkups close to us in Jordanstown. We travel south ourselves in the summer with the dog and Airbnb. In Bantry this summer. Have fun.
Oh dear gawd...i am so sorry to see these beautiful places over run with tourists!😱 My ancestors are from Ireland. Im 73 yrs old, and I've always wanted to visit, and had hoped to before I die, but after watching your video, I certainly do not want to be part of the problem.😢
During our Ireland trip, we were staying in Killarney when our B&B host begged us to book a tour bus as opposed to driving to visit the cliffs of moher. He arranged the whole booking and explained to us getting behind the buses on those narrow roads is very frustrating. We followed his suggestion. Best decision. Lots of fog in the morning, stopped for lunch, saw the beauty of the cliffs and stopped on our way back for a border collie/sheep show. Amazing!
Haha sounds wonderful! The roads are certainly not the faint of heart. Thankfully we’ve not got stuck behind a tour bus yet but there’s plenty of them on the road and their drivers are… bold, shall we say! 😳
Great videos. Love them. Yes farmers have great respect for fairy trees and ring forts. They leave them be (from a west clare farmer) If ye are going to conamarra (west galway) keep a look out on the mountain sides for old potatoe ridges from the famine times.
Wow!! what an incredible landscape. We will have to add this destination to our bucket list of places to visit. Glad to see you guys taking it easy and touring close to home. Cheers, from Cape Breton :)
Thoroughly enjoyed this - as I do all your videos. Chesca…you really made me laugh out loud in the seaweed-filled barrel! 😂 I have never seen you laugh so much. It was great. Even writing this I’m chuckling to myself. Look after each other you lovely 12 Legs xx
Hi, just caught up with this week's video, what a cracker. The scenery you captured is amazing. I loved your fairy wood, there is one just above my campsite where Bryn and I regularly walk. I always think of the elementals in there just out of sight, watching us but not letting me see them, I keep hoping. The more I see, the more I want to do a road trip to Ireland. Ben your slimy beard was epic, I laughed so much 😂. Stay safe all, with love Sue and Bryn xx
I love finding woods and places that feel like there's something else there, just out of sight. Ireland is full of places like it, you would love it here Sue 💛 And lots of beaches for Bryn to run wild on! xx
What a wonderful magical mystery tour😊🍀 Thank you! Father Teds house!!! Love it "Ahh would you have a cup of tea there my lovelies, ah go on, go on, go on , go on, ya will !!! "
18:36 That’s probably a sheep fold. These days farmers use portable metal sections that slot together. You send your dogs to retrieve the sheep from the hills and put them into the fold where you can work with them. Shearing, checking feet, separating out animals etc.
Hahaa nope! On the edge of one of the most beautiful places we've seen! And really tucked away from the world, you wouldn't know it was there unless you hunted it out x
I would say it’s seaweed from Slimer out of Ghostbusters 😂 Great video. Thanks for sharing valuable experience and insight about Ireland. This makes me want to travel there immediately. Best regards From the Arctic North inside the polar circle Northern Norway 🇳🇴
I lived and worked in a restaurant in Doolin one summer back in the 80s when it was very popular but much quieter.. and the first fish and chip take away opened in a shed attached to a pub.. the excitement was huge. We crossed the road after work from our fancy restaurant to get fish a nd chips that first night it opened.😊 And you could walk to the cliffs or park there then no bother even in Summer 😂
Ah, amazing memories! It was crazy how busy it was for such a tiny place. But still so beautiful with the thatched cottages and river running through 🌞
I have just caught up with you after finding myself unsubscribed to your channel! Love your English and Irish adventures now! And so informative to boot! Looking forward to seeing more! All the best!
Haha, its been a wild week alright! Looks like you guys had a great time though. Beautiful vid as always. Enjoyed the drone shots of Moher, that was some brave piloting in the weather on the day! Funny the Cliffs of Moher were part of our first visit to Ireland, easter 2022 in the van. Was blue skies and hardly anyone around 😈 We stayed overnight in the mostly empty visitor centre carpark. We did a weekend stay around The Burren in Feb this year for Kayvan's 40th, travelled in the van, but treated ourselves to a stay in The Falls Hotel, hyrdroelectric powered from the river running through the town Ennistymon. So... Father Ted, we thought brilliant, a good bit of entertainment and also a mandatory watch as a new IRL family in residence, should be fine to watch as a family - its PG right.... Wrong! First episode the alcoholic ol' boy Father Jack Hackett having a dream sequence of a group of school girls and frothing at the mouth - lol, erm won't be watching with the little one again.
I laughed so hard when the seaweed put all that slime on him!!!! Only thing missing from that scenery was a whisky YUM!!! Ireland is on my bucket list and I am going there in 2026 and cannot wait!!!!
Seeing your heads bobbing out of the top of a whiskey barrel was hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard at one of your videos since the Turkish hammam. The Old Gregg reference did me in! And yes, Ben, let's go with elephant *snot*. 😬😬 Saying it again, the geology of Ireland is mesmerizing! I just can't get my head around the beauty of it sometimes. Amazing. ❤️❤️😎👍xx
❤ GR8 VID ❤ LOVED IT ❤ My absolute favorite 4 souls (Ben, Chesca, River, Scout) on UA-cam ❤ I love how you're slowly moving across Ireland ❤ Thank you for letting me feel like I'm right there with you, caravaning in my own Van ❤ 😊watched it 3 times .. best for me was Ben in seaweed and you eating fish & chips ❤
Wow it really does look incredible there - it's going on the list for sure :). I laughed and laughed at 'Old Gregg' followed by Ben getting covered in seaweed slime, haha! Great video - keep on trucking :)))
Welcome to County Clare. Since you both are really immersing yourselves in Irish culture, try and get to a Hurling match (ancient Irish, national sport). There are county championships on at the moment where local parishes are competing, a great afternoon out for the fastest field-sport in the world. Enjoy!!!!
Fun fact, we were in Kilrush when it was the hurling championship final or something?! Clare won the hurling and the noise coming from the streets, the cars, the people spilling out of pubs, it was something else! A match is on our Ireland bucket list for sure 💛
Oh my, fabulous video Both. Could not believe how busy it was. Crazy. Oh yes, proper local fish and chips. We love them too. Those white rocks were awesome. So beautiful. Yeah father Ted's house 😅 Keep Loving the Lifestyle Both. Love and Big Hugs ❤
Wow, another absolutely wonderful episode. You guys in the whiskey barrel had me in stitches....ROFL. Regarding the rock wall, it's the aliens Ben, the aliens! lol :) Ireland is just so magical isn't it? :)
Hello! And thanks for another beautiful adventure! The Cliffs of Moher are just so breathtaking, you really feel so small and like the earth could swallow us so easily 😅 I had no idea one could sit in a whiskey barrel full of seaweed! The only thing missing, to be maximally Irish, besides a Guinness, would be some trad music players and a sheep or two wandering past. 😅 ❤
Hi my loves, hope you enjoy! What a week! Felt like we finally got to experience what makes the wild Atlantic way so… wild! 🙂 Say hi in the comments and let us know what you think, big love from us x
So good!! Loving the music in this video :)
Your videos are world class travel documentaries. Stunning!
🥹🥹 Wow, far from it but thank you so much! 💛💛
@@Graygramma Agree...both visuals and commentary..
totally agree!
@@shooster5884 and the music.
Just retired, the time has come to realize the dream of exploring my Irish heritage. This series has my undivided attention. Though I have been following you since Halifax, NS. Love what you’ve done. I think you are truly extraordinary
people. So professional. And inspiring. PS My grandmother believed in the faeries and would get very upset when anyone would say they weren’t real. 🧚 🧚🏻♀️ 🧚
Love this! And yes, take this as a sign to follow those Irish roots 🍀 Fairy lore seems to be as old as Ireland itself, endlessly fascinating!
The barrel had me cackling 😂
😂😂 Ben almost killed me
It was pretty funny I agree.
You guys were just a few miles from us...
The walls on the Burren are field boundaries. Unlike most parts of the world, cattle traditionally were put up on the mountains in winter, not brought down. The limestone stores summer warmth, and nutritious herbs grow all winter in those cracks in the rock (grikes) so cows did well up there.
Fascinating! Thank you!
I was hoping someone would chime in. Ta 🙏
I understand that there's an agri management program to ensure that farmers continue to overwinter their cattle on the hills of the Burren to ensure the very continuity of the landscape itself.
Hello and hugs from northern California. I never imagined that Ireland would have such wild and rugged terrain. I especially enjoy your photography from up above. Could watch it over and over.
Hugs to you and Dan, Bonnie 💛 Ireland is really rugged... and we haven't even hit the most rugged parts yet! Hope all is good with you in California. Sending lots of love from us xx
You guys are inspiring as ever. I love this scenery and mystic vibes. The sea weed bit gave the much needed belly laughs. So cute, so fun. Love you guys !! -Agnes, Ziggy & Stardust 😊🐶🐶💞
Thanks so much my love, so glad you enjoyed it 🥹💛 xx
if ever there was a video that should be sponsored, or at least rewarded by "BORD FAILTE", (irish tourist board) then it is this one. as a sometimes homesick irishman,living in brittany i must say you completely nailed this in every sense. first time discovering your site and i think the tv will be unpluged tonight. HOOKED
If you enjoyed those cliffs, Sliabh Liag in Donegal will stun you even more ! Enjoy the travels!
Ah I know we can’t wait to make it up there!
@@OverlandingSophia if you'd like any tips or places to call for services etc, don't be shy.....Donegal is a gem !
And Croaghaun on Achill. Although it takes a bit of effort to get to them.
@OverlandingSophia if you plan on heading to Achill Island on the way, the Croghaun cliffs and Keem beach are unmissable too! Downpatrick Head is also nearby and well worth a visit
Just WOW !, the editing is PROFESSIONAL, that is ready for TV !!!
Wow, that’s very kind of you to say, thank you 💛
We did a week in July this year and I'd say it rained 80 percent of the time but we loved every minute! A beautiful place. We met a couple who'd been there for 10 weeks and had still only made it to Clare travelling north!! Ireland has so much to see I think its best to do what you did and not try to cram it all in to a 2 week break. We will definitely be returning. Thanks for the videos we loved them. pats for the dogs x
I have sat and watched with awe of travels around the world. Now I watch with pride (sometimes tears) of how you are showing off my beautiful country.
Also how you have picked up on our culture, sayings and embraced us. I can only wish you ever bit of Irish luck through out your lives. ☘️
Hi Guys, I live in Ireland and I am blowing away with your video, I have watched other van life videos of their visit to Ireland but your content is fantastic, you have shown Ireland at it's best with the places you have visited, I am looking forward to your next video, cheers guys.
Always means a lot coming from a local, so thank you John. Appreciate it a lot 💛 xx
The stunning landscapes! Beautifully captured. Such magic and majesty. Saint Brigid's Well
Hahaha our little pea heads 😂 So glad you enjoyed this one, it’s one of our faves in a long while too! 🩷✨
My sister and I saw the cliffs from the sea. Magnificent, majestic, absolutely breathtaking. ❤
We booked a ferry from Doolin to see the cliffs from the sea! But cancelled given the horrendous weather 😭
Chesca and Ben, the way you are documenting your adventures in Ireland have really stepped up a notch since your travels in the Americas.
As before, you guys are your genuine selves on camera. It's so refreshing and genuine that there is none of the hyperbole that seems to be the number one tool in many social media personality's clickbait armoury. Your storytelling is as good as any professional scriptwriters', and seems so natural, and you are obviously having a lot of fun too. Your filming/editing has developed a more cinematic approach really highlighting the beauty of the places you are visiting. Love the uncontrollable giggles at Ben's elephant snot 😄.
It feels like you are finding a better pace for your travels and the results are shining through the films you are producing. Love watching your journey up the Wild Atlantic Way.
We are just leaving in our van for a southern voyage to get the last of the European summer. We will be following you from there.
Really appreciate this, thank you so much for the kind words and appreciation for our slightly new way of doing things! We feel like we have space and time to travel and film now, changing to one video every 2 weeks has been almost life changing in the freedom it's given us back. Creatively we were burning out all the time but now it feels so different. It's really lovely to know it's noticed, so thank you. Enjoy your European sun! We're gonna be doing the opposite and heading to Scotland for the autumn! 🥶 xx
Are you watching Netflix,BBC,Discovery, we are witnessing the best travel Doc on youtube,you guys are awesome.
🥲 Thank you thank you, you are awesome x
I am just loving your Ireland series! Thank you! Thank you! ❤
Thank you for watching Karen! So pleased you’re enjoying them 💛💛
Didn't realize how much I missed your videos while you were on a break. But wow ...wow.......Absolulety amazing.
Thank you so much Ruth 🥹 💛
Beautiful video as always ❤
You guys have nailed the perfect combo of audio/ music selection with the video sections. Just love your editing. So well done :)
Thank you so much, means a lot to hear when people appreciate the edit 🥹😂
Chesca!! You DID NOT burp like that!!! 😆😂 OMG! You've been spending too much time with Ben! 😄 Super cute video! 💖your choice of music on this one! ☺👍
Erm, Leanne it’s me that taught Ben to burp like that! 😂😂 sign of a good meal! 🥴 xx
And a good ale! 😎👍
The trouble with Mullaghmore is that there's various walks. Mullaghnore itself has 3 or 4 walks of varying difficulties, then there's the nature trail (which is severely underrated if you like plants) and there's the Lough Avalla Farm Loop which is a really nice short hike with the cosiest cafe at the end - additionally too Fr Ted's house adds to the footfall
Beautifuly photography and well narrated well done.
Thank you so much 💛💛
The Burren is sooo amazing. Nice caves there too. An Irish couple in a pub told me the walls were built to clear more land for the grass to grow. During the famine they wouldn't just give the starving people food, they made them do backbreaking work for it by building pointless walls going up into the mountains. Its such a sad part of history.
Yes someone else mentioned they might be famine walls 😢 Horrendous part of history.
@@OverlandingSophia There actually was no famine- it was a mass genocide ( the great hunger). The British exported the food from Ireland to England and starved the Irish to death- and yes they made the starving Irish beg for food by means of building pointless walls. Not getting at you but it is such an insult to Irish people to deny it was a genocide. Ireland is beautiful, I'm so delighted you enjoyed my. home - your content was great 😊
@@JackieFitzpatrick-m1m I absolutely, whole-heartedly agree with you. I use the term famine because that's what the person in the comment referred to it as, and many people do.
I'm under no illusion as to what it really was - a mass slaughter and genocide by the English, not to mention the forced displacement as millions fled to avoid a fate worse than death, creating a diaspora of refugees that halved the Irish population. I find it disgusting as an English person that we are taught about the famine as though it was a natural disaster. I stand in utter shame at what we did.
@@OverlandingSophia Don't be too ashamed !!😉you had nothing to do with it.... In Ireland we were taught the same if at all!! Lots of revisionist stuff and lies- Thank you for your reply, and thankfully many of us aren't afraid to hear the truth. Continued happy travelling ☘☘
Yet I am only English because of the famine, because my great grandfather and great grandmothers families fled to work in the pottery's in Stoke. Which means that there is so much more affinity with the Irish people worldwide now because they have spread to every corner of the globe. Which is good because history will never be repeated. And it led to the Irish people making a stand and formation of the Republic. Its also worth remembering that the vast majority of people in England had no clue what was happening and were horrified when news finally filtered through. Its more likely it was greed, ignorance and incompetence that didn't stop the tragedy, than intentional mass murder of their cheap labour force.
I can't find the words to express how much I enjoy your Ireland videos. You seem so much much more at peace and it really translates in your videography and I'm soo here for it!!
This really means so much, thank you 🥹 It's been a whole new way of working/filming and travelling since coming home and we're really enjoying the new pace. So happy this comes through in the videos too 💛
Your photography and video is amazing!It makes me want to book a trip to Ireland!
Oh, never seen Ireland like this! Great filming! Thanks!
Thank you! 🥲
Definitely, the more I see in your travels, the more I know Bryn and I need an expedition to Ireland. So many Celtic and older sacred places to visit. Looking forward to the next episode, love Sue and Bryn xx
Your videos of Ireland are fabulous...
I'm Irish and live in the west and the beauty of the varying landscapes still catch my breath and the sense of that other world presence... the history and mythology overlapping seemlessly seems totally natural and real.. and is expressed so well in generations of Irish literature..
“History and mythology overlapping seamlessly” - couldn’t have said it better, this is one of the things that spellbinds me with Ireland. It’s a country that’s so alive in so many ways. Means a lot that you’re enjoying the videos, thank you 💛
Beautiful video Ches and Ben. What stunning scenery. Thanks for taking us along with you 💙💜🤎🤍
Thank you for coming along with us! 🥹 💛
When I was in Oregon just recently I stopped and ate at a food truck called Woggy's and they had the best fish and chips and fish tacos, I had to go there 4 times while in the area of Gold Beach. Great video, loving thee scenery.
I was going to wax poetic about your beautiful choice of music, the stunning vistas even with the fog, the history of the Fairies and the scenes of River and Scout being their adorable selves🐾🐾♥ but then the two of you were sitting in the whiskey barrel with Ben with seaweed scum stuck to him and DH and I were just 🤣🤣🤣. Too funny. Now I seem to remember that seaweed is used in beauty products so my serious question is did you feel a difference with your skin after you de-slimed? 😄
Hahah the slime on Ben's face a la Ghostbusters will be forever etched into my memory. Our skin did feel softer actually! Ben said he's lost about 3 wrinkles 😂 💛
Your videos are so professional. I’m enjoying every minute of your Irish journey! So grateful to share such a stunning country with you! Many thanks 😊
Love you Brenda, thank you so much. So glad you’re enjoying the Ireland videos. We love it out here - if you couldn’t tell! 💛
I loved this vlog so much. I'm so glad that you have found Ireland "feels alive in every sense of the word" as you so eloquently said. To me Ireland feels like history and folklore blended together, the landscape feels ancient but not just in a geological way, in an ancestral way, as though the past watches over us . Many people feel this strongly at Glendalough but for me it's the Boyne valley that feels the most ancient and mythological. It's difficult to put into words how Ireland feels, it just has to be experienced. Thanks for telling the story of the fairy tree that was saved from the motorway, it's a story that all the locals know . I'm glad it's reaching an international audience. Safe travels x
"History and folklore blended together" - this exactly! Ancient in an ancestral way... couldn't have said it better. There's just something so alive about Ireland that really has to be experienced. Fallen deeply in love with this country, it's people and it's landscapes. It's a special place and this comment means a lot, so thank you 🙏 xx
THAT'S MY HOME! I'm living in Montreal, Canada now and watching you 2 discovering the place I grew up is fantastic! I got pretty emotional actually. Best of luck with the rest of your exploring and I hope the weather is on your side! Loving your adventures and your story telling! Slan go foil!
Love this, thank you so much! It's a special place to call home ✨
Also check out, Grange stone circle near Grange Co Limerick. Also near by is a Dolman going back five thousand years. No tourists come to this place and plenty of parking space.
Wow.. love the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren is so interesting! Thanks for taking us there. :)
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Ben please forgive me for laughing at your slimy mess. Your expression as the slime slid down your face like a waterfall. I needed that 😂😂😂. The views you two are sharing are breathtaking. I look forward to your next video. ❤❤❤
Haha no forgiveness needed, that image of him slimed will stay with me a long time 😂 💛
Another wonderful video,o my gosh the fish and chips looked so delicious. Thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great video's and I absolutely must agree there is magic. mysticism.paganism.religion.and fairies in Ireland. There is energy all around and in the ground in the ocean and rivers. It's a stunning place, and I feel so proud to be Irish and to live here. Well done you two ye get it..ye get that its awesome and special and ancient and needs to be protected. P.s love yer beautiful dogs. Hey..seaweed is so good for us..those baths are fantastic. Next ye need to taste carrigeen pudding..its a gorgeous dessert using dried seaweed to thicken it. Yum.
Thank you thank you 💛 That's exactly how it feels... it's such a special country and we are just head over heels in love! xx
And when you wrote that reply you hadn't yet known you have Irish roots. It's brilliant. Maybe Ben has too...cos ye both def got the soul and the magic of this wonderful place.
Totally enthralling!! Takes a very artistic eye to do this special kind of video! I have Irish ancestry myself even though never visited. My heart was in my mouth…..🥰
Thank you so much for the kind words 💛 Take this as your sign to get out to Ireland!
@@OverlandingSophia If I could, I would!
Another wonderful cinematic experience! Thank you 4! Much love
Thank youuu! Love love x
Yet another brilliant blòg.
Thank you so much 💛💛
Enjoyed that. Before I emigrated to Australia 30 years ago I spent a decade exploring the caves of The Burren with my mates. A wild yet beautiful corner of the Country
Wow bet that was amazing, it really is a wild and beautiful part of Ireland.
Thanks for the great filming over The Burren. Loved the video!
I absolutely love your channel , I just Love you eating the fish and chips and the big belch, loved it . Thanks visiting my country. If you’re ever back in Ireland and passing through Limerick . Check out the Parnell grill. Best fish and chips in the World.
As always a brilliantly put together video....
You guy's are my favourite night cap video of my week...🍷
Love this, thank you so much 🥲 xx
Hi Guys. Love the videos. The Burren is the largest 'Karst' landscape in the British Isles and the blocks and trenches are features called 'Clint and Gryke' scenery. The Clints are the blocks, the grykes are the fissures between. I and my partner Patricia live in Carrickfergus on the north shore of Belfast Lough. Not sure if you are planning to head into the north of Ireland but we would love to buy you a pint or two if you are. Some good parkups close to us in Jordanstown. We travel south ourselves in the summer with the dog and Airbnb. In Bantry this summer. Have fun.
I have never laugh so much as seeing you 2 in a barrel of sea weed thanks you have made my weekend take care drive safe😂👍👍
Hahah Ben’s face with the seaweed slime killed me 😂😂💀
Oh dear gawd...i am so sorry to see these beautiful places over run with tourists!😱 My ancestors are from Ireland. Im 73 yrs old, and I've always wanted to visit, and had hoped to before I die, but after watching your video, I certainly do not want to be part of the problem.😢
There is plenty of Ireland left untouched, I wouldn’t worry!
The barrel 😂 what a place guys!! Giving us all the inspo, the hikes looked unreal with those landscapes too!
Haha you have to do it if they're still there! Just don't Old Greg the seaweed 😆 💛
Hi again from Nova Scotia! Love you Ireland videos! I will be hiking the Wicklow Way from Dublin next month. Very excited 😊
Wonderful! Hope you have an amazing time, that hike is on my list! 💛 xx
You are absolutely selling it to me loving it keep them coming
Hehe love to hear it! Thank you 🙏
Ben's slimy seaweed head had us wetting ourselves!!! I'm still laughing!!!
I DIEDDD 💀😭😭😭
😂🤣😂🤣😂 it still takes second place to the four of you in a Turkish bath, though!!
Incredible landscape! Enjoying discovering the Wild Atlantic Way with you!
Thank you!! Only one week left but feel like we’re just getting started!
During our Ireland trip, we were staying in Killarney when our B&B host begged us to book a tour bus as opposed to driving to visit the cliffs of moher. He arranged the whole booking and explained to us getting behind the buses on those narrow roads is very frustrating. We followed his suggestion. Best decision.
Lots of fog in the morning, stopped for lunch, saw the beauty of the cliffs and stopped on our way back for a border collie/sheep show. Amazing!
Haha sounds wonderful! The roads are certainly not the faint of heart. Thankfully we’ve not got stuck behind a tour bus yet but there’s plenty of them on the road and their drivers are… bold, shall we say! 😳
Well said Chez. Magical place
Thank you 💛 xx
Great videos. Love them.
Yes farmers have great respect for fairy trees and ring forts. They leave them be (from a west clare farmer)
If ye are going to conamarra (west galway) keep a look out on the mountain sides for old potatoe ridges from the famine times.
Wow!! what an incredible landscape. We will have to add this destination to our bucket list of places to visit. Glad to see you guys taking it easy and touring close to home. Cheers, from Cape Breton :)
You do! Think the Wild Atlantic Way is one of those trips you have to do before you die 💛
Thoroughly enjoyed this - as I do all your videos. Chesca…you really made me laugh out loud in the seaweed-filled barrel! 😂 I have never seen you laugh so much. It was great. Even writing this I’m chuckling to myself. Look after each other you lovely 12 Legs xx
Hahaaa Ben's slime-covered face will live rent free in my head forever 😂 😂 xx
Hi, just caught up with this week's video, what a cracker. The scenery you captured is amazing. I loved your fairy wood, there is one just above my campsite where Bryn and I regularly walk. I always think of the elementals in there just out of sight, watching us but not letting me see them, I keep hoping.
The more I see, the more I want to do a road trip to Ireland. Ben your slimy beard was epic, I laughed so much 😂. Stay safe all, with love Sue and Bryn xx
I love finding woods and places that feel like there's something else there, just out of sight. Ireland is full of places like it, you would love it here Sue 💛 And lots of beaches for Bryn to run wild on! xx
The Old Gregg reference is why I'm a Patreon 🤣 Love you both!
Love you Claire! Have you ever drunk Bailey’s from a shoe?
What a wonderful magical mystery tour😊🍀 Thank you! Father Teds house!!! Love it "Ahh would you have a cup of tea there my lovelies, ah go on, go on, go on , go on, ya will !!! "
Haha one of my favourite things to quote! Along with ARSE! DRINK! 😂😂
18:36 That’s probably a sheep fold. These days farmers use portable metal sections that slot together. You send your dogs to retrieve the sheep from the hills and put them into the fold where you can work with them. Shearing, checking feet, separating out animals etc.
Thank you!
Before the cliffs of Moher there is a place called Kilkee which is amazing. Richard Harris used to spend his summer vacations there.
I always imagined Father Ted was filmed on an island (keep the loonies in)! What a fantastic and wild landscape it sits in.
Hahaa nope! On the edge of one of the most beautiful places we've seen! And really tucked away from the world, you wouldn't know it was there unless you hunted it out x
StoneWell cider, only made down the road from me, Co.Cork……..love it🇮🇪💪
Delicious! 😋
The barrel 🤣🤣 father Ted ❤️❤️ thank you 😊😘
Fabulous video. The scenery is so wild and dramatic even in the mist and cloud.
I think often the bad weather makes places like that even more majestic!
I would say it’s seaweed from Slimer out of Ghostbusters 😂 Great video. Thanks for sharing valuable experience and insight about Ireland. This makes me want to travel there immediately.
Best regards From the Arctic North inside the polar circle Northern Norway 🇳🇴
Such an epic scenery! Great job! 🥰
Stunning. Brilliant narration and filming. Seaweed 😂😂😂❤
I lived and worked in a restaurant in Doolin one summer back in the 80s when it was very popular but much quieter.. and the first fish and chip take away opened in a shed attached to a pub.. the excitement was huge. We crossed the road after work from our fancy restaurant to get fish a nd chips that first night it opened.😊
And you could walk to the cliffs or park there then no bother even in Summer 😂
Ah, amazing memories! It was crazy how busy it was for such a tiny place. But still so beautiful with the thatched cottages and river running through 🌞
@@OverlandingSophia Yes it's a gorgeous place..
I have just caught up with you after finding myself unsubscribed to your channel! Love your English and Irish adventures now! And so informative to boot! Looking forward to seeing more! All the best!
Ah thank you lovely! 💛
Now I’m craving fish n chips. Yum - loving this tour 😀
Social battery?! Love that ... mine needs recharging too after a short while. 🙂
Haha, its been a wild week alright! Looks like you guys had a great time though. Beautiful vid as always. Enjoyed the drone shots of Moher, that was some brave piloting in the weather on the day!
Funny the Cliffs of Moher were part of our first visit to Ireland, easter 2022 in the van. Was blue skies and hardly anyone around 😈 We stayed overnight in the mostly empty visitor centre carpark.
We did a weekend stay around The Burren in Feb this year for Kayvan's 40th, travelled in the van, but treated ourselves to a stay in The Falls Hotel, hyrdroelectric powered from the river running through the town Ennistymon.
So... Father Ted, we thought brilliant, a good bit of entertainment and also a mandatory watch as a new IRL family in residence, should be fine to watch as a family - its PG right.... Wrong! First episode the alcoholic ol' boy Father Jack Hackett having a dream sequence of a group of school girls and frothing at the mouth - lol, erm won't be watching with the little one again.
Hahahah oh the Father Ted story is hilarious 🤣 I never watched it religiously (pun intended) but do remember it was always on after the watershed! xo
I laughed so hard when the seaweed put all that slime on him!!!! Only thing missing from that scenery was a whisky YUM!!! Ireland is on my bucket list and I am going there in 2026 and cannot wait!!!!
Hahah his face with the slime 😂😂 Ah amazing, you’re going to have the best time over there! 💛🍀
Tolkien author of Lord of the rings used to holiday in the Burren. Theres a cave called Poll na golm. Some say that's where he got the name for golum
Yes! I’m a big Tolkien fan, never heard the cave / Gollum story! So cool 💛
Seeing your heads bobbing out of the top of a whiskey barrel was hilarious. I haven't laughed so hard at one of your videos since the Turkish hammam. The Old Gregg reference did me in! And yes, Ben, let's go with elephant *snot*. 😬😬
Saying it again, the geology of Ireland is mesmerizing! I just can't get my head around the beauty of it sometimes. Amazing. ❤️❤️😎👍xx
Hahah it was up there guys! 😂😂 LOVE that you got the Old Greg ref! Haha elephant snot is the PG version 🤣💀 Big love to you both xx
Looks like a wonderland ♥. The 🛀 was interesting, seaweed bath or seaweed wig,either works,lol. NS is awaiting the next adventure. Stay safe. ♥
Haha not sure the seaweed wig worked for Ben, he was a slime ball 😆 xx
just beautiful!
❤ GR8 VID ❤ LOVED IT ❤ My absolute favorite 4 souls (Ben, Chesca, River, Scout) on UA-cam ❤ I love how you're slowly moving across Ireland ❤ Thank you for letting me feel like I'm right there with you, caravaning in my own Van ❤ 😊watched it 3 times .. best for me was Ben in seaweed and you eating fish & chips ❤
Thanks so much David, haha Ben in the seaweed almost killed me 😂😂😂 big love to you and April of course xx
Another great video with stunning scenery. Youarea great couple.
Thanks so much Jean 🥹 💛
Better production than you'd see from fully funded studios. And more Mighty Boosh and LOTR references
Thank you 🥲 xx soup soup a tasty soup soup
Wow it really does look incredible there - it's going on the list for sure :). I laughed and laughed at 'Old Gregg' followed by Ben getting covered in seaweed slime, haha! Great video - keep on trucking :)))
Hehe thank you! 💛💛
You were standing on the edge of the known world up to a couple of hundred years ago.
LOVE THISSSS!
It's very exciting❤
Beautiful, Funny video guys big hugs to you both & River & Scout ❤❤❤❤.
Thanks Alice 💛💛
Hey, hello🎉 Your video is good. I glad to see you back.
Thank you guys 💛💛
Welcome to County Clare. Since you both are really immersing yourselves in Irish culture, try and get to a Hurling match (ancient Irish, national sport). There are county championships on at the moment where local parishes are competing, a great afternoon out for the fastest field-sport in the world. Enjoy!!!!
Fun fact, we were in Kilrush when it was the hurling championship final or something?! Clare won the hurling and the noise coming from the streets, the cars, the people spilling out of pubs, it was something else! A match is on our Ireland bucket list for sure 💛
when you were in Halifax NS you could have got the best fish and chips, mushy peas and curry sauce in Canada from Fries and Co
Fabulous lovely scenery ❤
Oh my, fabulous video Both. Could not believe how busy it was. Crazy. Oh yes, proper local fish and chips. We love them too. Those white rocks were awesome. So beautiful. Yeah father Ted's house 😅 Keep Loving the Lifestyle Both. Love and Big Hugs ❤
Thanks Asa, yeah people love themselves some big rocks 😂 Still beautiful though, even in the rain and mist. Or maybe because of it! Love love xx
Absolutely amazing nice sound. First time watching your Channel. Another side of the world from the land of Beauty Land of K2 Gilgit-Baltistan
Brilliant video as usual ❤
Thank you so much 🥹💛
Wow, another absolutely wonderful episode. You guys in the whiskey barrel had me in stitches....ROFL. Regarding the rock wall, it's the aliens Ben, the aliens! lol :) Ireland is just so magical isn't it? :)
We’re in Ireland, it has to be fairies not aliens 😀 Hahaa so glad you enjoyed the whiskey barrel as much as we did, Ben just about killed me 🤣 x
@@OverlandingSophia How about alien fairies? haha ;)
Also check out Croaghaun Cliffs on Achill Island Co. Mayo.. 3 times higher than Moher!
Can’t wait!
Hello! And thanks for another beautiful adventure! The Cliffs of Moher are just so breathtaking, you really feel so small and like the earth could swallow us so easily 😅 I had no idea one could sit in a whiskey barrel full of seaweed! The only thing missing, to be maximally Irish, besides a Guinness, would be some trad music players and a sheep or two wandering past. 😅 ❤
Well now you know, you have to add it to your list! Haha I should have brought my tin whistle! 😂🍀
That seaweed in a whiskey barrel looks interesting . We are on the Isle of Skye right now , very beautiful here too , very wild just like Ireland .
Ah amazing, can’t wait to make it to Skye 💛