Your filming and editing skills combined with well mar rates information you include on the places puts your videos over the top. I really enjoyed this.
I really enjoyed this. I visited the Alcock and Brown landing site in 2011 . I heard that they followed the radio signal from Newfoundland to Clifton. They’ve developed the site a lot since then. When I was there you couldn’t walk out to the white monument . Also - the peats cut stacked at the side of the road are for burning in people’s homes ( like coal ) we call it turf ... it’s a great tradition where families rent a section of the bog and each year they go and cut turf, stack it until it dries and then take it home . Great video !
Its very easy access to the site now and whilst we were there two cars drove right up to the white monument. There is just a gate across the track but anyone who has trouble walking can drive through. I really enjoyed that day 👍
Ken, what a poetic interpretation of the "singing poles" and change over to wireless! I think the parabolic reflector actually worked well. I can hear you just fine from America. I bet that guard felt rather "sheepish" after she realized she'd let you pass! 😂
Good to hear the reflector worked. I am going to fit one to the roof of the van to see if it helps with a wifi signal. I hope they don’t miss it from Derrigimlagh. 😏 I wish I had never shown the guard now as I don’t want her to lose her job 👍
I have been watching from your first post right through. Have to say one of the best channels for showing of our great country in such detail with fantastic narration 👌..... hope you are enjoying the trip and thank you 🙏 keep up the great videos, 👍
Good afternoon carol & Ken, another fabulous video with excellent narrative from both of you. Great too see carol doing more of the presentation ( not that I don’t like to see your young face Ken, lol ). A Bit of added information on the Peat for you, peat bogs in rural Ireland are generally passed down through father to sons many being owned by same families for many generations, several members of the families benefit from the Turf ( the name for peat used for burning). The cutting of turf is very skilled and taught from a young age, normally the men of family would go out cutting from April/ May depending on the weather, older generations cut and the younger men lifted. The turf would be left to dry during the summer and turned regular men & women would go and do this ( i did this for many years each summer) it was a great day out with hard work and great food ( cold tea in a lemonade bottle- no one had a flask back then) soda bread ham and cheese. By end of August the turf was dry and off we would go for a few days of bringing home the Turf, I have lovely memories of doing this with my cousins, all of us on summer holidays from UK. We got paid in red lemonade and a whipped ice cream at the end of the day. Great craic & many hands make light work, several generations would benefit all winter long from the fuel, and there is nothing in this world that too me smells as good as a turf fire. Happy & safe travels to you Ken & carol.
Hi Sandra. Many thanks for explaining your story about the turf and there is a lot I didn’t know. I bet that was an enjoyable experience helping bring it home. What is red lemonade ?
Life is too short, hi red lemonade is called a Minerals drink in Ireland ( minerals refers to a soft drink ie non alcoholic) there are 2 brands which are ready available in Ireland Nash & TK ( Nash which is the oldest company started in 1875 in Limerick County Clare) can be bought in UK 🇬🇧 at Morrisons stores, a great place to buy many Irish products) many people think it’s like Iron brew or Tizer ( it’s nothin like either IMO). The red lemonade can be used as a soft drink (Mineral) for children or as a mixer for many alcoholic drinks- quite often ladies will mix the red lemonade with Guinness, Paddy & Red - Jimmy & Red are ordered allot- Paddy - Jameson whiskey mixed with red lemonade. For example If you hear at a bar “ can I have a mineral” it will be a soft drink. Hope that helps with your journey and understanding of the culture of Ireland. Safe and happy travels
I also remember those days well Sandra and they used to be scorching with no place to go for shade. I always came back sun burned. Also that's why so many men and women with fair skin developed melanomas in later years, no sun protection and no shade. I remember my cousin finding a lump of butter that was well preserved from previous generations. Nothing beats that intoxicating smell of burning turf. Sadly most houses are run on oil fired heating now and those massive big tractors cutting the bog producing turf sausages instead of the traditional cuts. Things will never be like those old times. ☘️
Have just joined you on your travels and it’s quite a feast. Being 83 and still not needing a hearing aid, I appreciate your easy to listen style and good clarity of words. Two things in this episode ticked my boxes. In 1970 we travelled across Canada form Calgary to Newfoundland. One of our visits there was to Signal Hill where on December 12, 1901 Marconi received his first transatlantic transmission from England! And then there’s the piles of peat. We have a lot of peat underground here in Canada and I can remember going camping and seeing signs “please no camp fires”. Reason being if a camp fire ever caught the peat underground there would be a huge underground burn that could conceivably burn for years undermining the ground on which we walk. Spent 3 months in Sheffield baby sitting a granddaughter and many times visited my grandmother in Blackheath SE London. Thanks.
My wife's family still go into the bog each year to cut peat. They stack it in "stoocks" to dry for a few weeks before taking it home. My father-in-law worked his whole life for Bord na Mona at the West Offaly power station near Birr, which generated electricity by burning peat. Bord no Mona have closed the station, but still extract peat for horticultural purposes
The way things are going with power they might need to re-open that peat power station 😁👍. All this wonderful renewable energy and we are not allowed to use it 🙄👍
Loving these video diaries, not only the beautiful scenery but the dialogue and the way you both interact. It is so refreshing and calming with so much madness around us. Found myself saying yummy at lunch today. Good grief, next we’ll be buying a van and pottering around the countryside on adventures.
Good thing the guard was on his grass-break. Baa! Lovely video, and wonderfully narrated. I believe I may stop off in the Bog when I spend a night or to in Letterfrack. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for another excellent video. Peat is still burned by many people in their homes. It gives off a very pleasant smell but the fire needs almost constant feeding. In one of your earlier videos you stayed in Londonderry/Derry. Amelia Earhart landed there in a field after becoming the first female to cross the Atlantic solo. Sadly, she was killed around 1937.
Bloody hilarious! XD Enormous fun to watch each Éire episode! XD This one is special with the cute sheep-guards and the Atlantic-flight history lesson! Thank you! :) Not to forget the wonderful dronescapism and landscape! :) Love the beach shots and probably I would be there swimming happily too! Never mind the cold! :D bear hugs, Kata
We enjoyed your video Ken & Carol. We found it to be informative and interesting and the way you narrated through the video was great. TY FS. Sue, Brian and The Westies.👍🐶🐾😷👏🏻
Great shots of the scenery Ken, something I still do after caring for my late mother is carry a box of disposable gloves (A) Driving a diesel vehicle came in handy at petrol stations due to inconsiderate people taking all the gloves during COVID (B) they also come in handy for doing maintenance checks on the vehicle and changing tyre's (my vehicle is the same age as the little red camper and still has a full size spare)(C) going to places with interactive displays put a glove on and your protected.
It always fascinates me whenever I see peat being cut. Its one of those rare events that connects us to our past, a bit like seeing cart horses pulling a plough. Clearly leaving it out uncovered works as most piles we saw were uncovered but I would have thought the rain would take you back to stage 1 again. The other thing that surprises me is that the powers that be have not shut it down to stop global warming. I wouldn’t support that, its a renewable energy source and we need to hang onto skills like that.
Life is too short there is a push to restrict peat cutting alright but mostly aimed at the large corporations who sell it commercially rather than the individual who cuts by hand. It’s big business as you can see in garden centers (all that lovely peat for gardeners)
I particularly enjoyed this one as I spent a number of summer holidays in Roundstone and Dogs Bay. There once was a basic campsite, a field really, with no facilities near the beach where we really "wild" camped. The mountain on your left as u turned into Dogs Bay is called Errisbeg. It was the first mountain I climbed at the ripe old age of 7.
Nice to be able to trigger some memories Fergus, I always like when that happens. I know exactly what you mean by really ‘wild’ camping. Our version is the equivalent of a five star hotel next to a bit of canvas 👍.
Well done guys for tracking down and showing us that historic site with Marconi and first transatlantic crossing, so refreshing that you are reaching the parts of Ireland that other channels don't reach. If only Carlsberg did UA-cam videos.
Really enjoying your videos 😊 very interesting and you take some stunning shots of the beautiful scenery .Carol you are a genius in the cooking department 😋
Loving your adventure. I am a proud Irishman and you capture the beauty and colours of Ireland wonderfully. Also your meals look very tempting. Cookbook next maybe ? Thank you both
Thanks for sharing. I must say I’ve been a little disappointed with the scenery. For some reason I expect it to be more like North Wales. Love the cooking and the meals Carol comes up with. Jeff
I think there are many spectacular places that we missed. There are bits very similar to North Wales but for us its more like the Outer Hebrides, especially those beaches. The mountains remind us of Iceland. Carol does a great job with the meals and its surprising what you can do on 2 gas rings 👍
Ambleton Layout my thoughts having lived for a while in Wales is that the scenery in Nth Wales is very similar to Ireland (but maybe I’m biased being from Ireland LOL) This is particularly so in Glenveigh National Park (Donegal), Connemara National Park (Galway) and also all along the Dingle, Beara and Iveragh Peninsulas in the SW - the mountain ranges and Atlantic Coastline are spectacular. Plus there is the unique moonscape of the Burren National Park. Maybe have a look online at some photos or videos and see for yourself? Both countries are each spectacular - neither is ‘nicer’ than the other 😁👍🏻❤️🇮🇪🏴🇬🇧
Great video and brings back such fond memories of our time in that area. We stayed in Roundstone (saw O'Dowds in the video which we walked to from our rental flat) and did the sky loop in Clifden and stopped at the same places you did. The views in that area with the mountains of Connemara are some of the best in Ireland from what I can tell. Can't wait to go back. Cheers!
Peter O'Toole lived on Sky road and not too far away Charles De Gaulle used to go on holidays. Marconi's mother was Irish, Annie Jameson ( of the Jameson Whiskey family ) and his first wife, Beatrice O'Brien, was also Irish.
@@LifeistooshortCK We can only imagine the parties there must have been in Peter O'Toole's house. You must come back to Ireland as soon as this virus has passed. This is the first video of your's I come across and it has encouraged me to look at some more.
david this could mean you just fell short of one of irelands most spectacular trips the trip from kenmare to bantry but you definetly are right there are some amazing spots on the west coast next time your down that way take the trip between kenmare and bantry and the next day from bantry via durrus to sheeps head
Very interesting video and scenery. Peat is always burned in Ireland, it is left normally in small stacks to dry, then brought home in August. All my family relatives used to cut their own peat or turf as its also known. I think we still have a peat cutting spade in our Donegal home. I wish I still had my uncles turf creel which he made himself from wicker. I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned about the distinct smell of burning turf on your travels, it is one of those distinct smells. We know we are home when we smell it traveling across the border in Northern Ireland. It also still contains pollen from all those thousands of years and when bone dry and broken in half can send me rushing for the antihistamine when I get a fit of the sneezes. Lol To stop flies setting off your alarm I would have assumed your alarm would have a pet mode, whereby you hold in the activation button on the fob until you hear a beep and then pets and flies can then move freely inside the van without setting off the alarm. That's what my van has anyway. 👍
I can’t say we smelt any peat being burned whilst we were there to be honest but I bet its very different from other fuels. Our van does have that option to disable the internal sensors but its a bit of a faff to use. Probably not as much faff as the fly spray though. 👍
This was wonderful thank you. I’d love to do that walk as it looked so interesting and the view of the 12 Bens is beautiful. I check UA-cam every day for new videos from you and am so happy when there is one 😁 They are so wonderful. Thanks again for sharing your trip with us. I do hope you return some day ❤️👍🏻🇮🇪🇬🇧
Thanks Mary. We will certainly be back again as there is so much more to see that we missed. We all need to get through this next Covid spike and pick up again when its safe. I think people will start getting edgy again about campervans soon. 👍
Life is too short yes sadly I agree. The numbers are not looking good and I think another major lockdown on the way ☹️ Stay safe & well you two. Let me know if I can help or advise in any way when you are planning your return 🙏🏻🤞🏻👍🏻
Another fabulous video filled with so many interesting facts and information. I always look forward to your videos and I have to say, I think Carol russells up some fantastic meals given the the limitations. Gosh I wish I could do as good a job for myself at home. I hope you appreciate it. 🤣👍
I certainly appreciate it Martyn and she is an excellent cook. The secret to food tasting nice is plenty of salt and pepper and then the odd other ingredient. The health police have destroyed the taste of food but if you season it yourself it comes back to life. Its a team effort in the van, Carol cooks and I edit. I can cook just as well as I was taught by my mum, a Lancashire lass who knew how to make anything taste good 😏
Great episode! I wish I was brave enough to dip in cold waters like that, as they say it’s so good for you....I might brave it in a wet suit!! 😂. Glad you’re including all your meals again for us food obsessed subscribers!
It probably is really good for you and I am sure it makes you really feel alive afterwards. Well that is what everyone told us and there are so many of them doing it I think it has to be true. Carol has a rather old relative in Llanelli Wales who has swam in the sea most days of his life. He has amazing health and is sharp as a tack.
New subscriber...Binge watched your earlier posts and loved it...I do have one suggestion though...I think you should change the name of the channel from "Life is too short" to 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of a PUBLIC LOO'....
From Clifden down to Kenmare via the peninsulas, absolutely my favourite place in Ireland to spend 10 days. That being said, there aren't many parts of the country I don't like! 😁
We just love Ireland and Kenmaer were in Clifton last year we had a beautiful house 🏡.We stayin houses when we come go to Ireland we just love Ireland . We were so sad when we couldn't come this year 😢 the virus 😷 stop us . Were coming Next Year .A Virus not stopping us .🙏🙉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hello Carol & Ken , wonderful video , makes me feel like i am there :) great thumbnail remember when people search, it is your video title that comes up too :) sorry i just think your videos are wonderful :)
Never be sorry about offering tips to improve the channel. I appreciate your help and I do act on them. Changing all the titles and more thumbnails this morning. Cheers 👍
Hi , really enjoying your videos . Love seeing around Ireland . Do you have a day today schedule before you start your trips or just a general idea of what you would like to see . Do you use any apps , websites or maps to find parking spots at night . Love the van and hope to get back to Ireland someday 👍👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
On our trips Carol enjoys doing the planning in advance. We usually have a huge list of potential places but we also don’t hesitate to deviate from the plan depending upon circumstances. Now that we have started our channel that also opens up suggestions from people with local knowledge. Park4Night is a useful app, Pocket Earth is great for finding toilets and Google maps satellite view combined with street view can also show potential parkups. 👍
Lovely video, again! I really like your voice over and your choice of music. Do you do all the editing in your campervan? And as I am planning on buying a small van and turning it into a camper as well, I am curious about a few things. Where do you shower? How much solar power and battery capacity do you have and is that enough? Do you have heating in your van and do you use it a lot? Thank you so much for sharing your adventures and make it look so doable and enjoyable 🌞❤️
Yes I edit in the van on an ipad although this episode was completed at home. I do most of the filming and all of the editing which is why you see Carol doing a lot of the driving and most of the cooking. There is little downtime on a trip so the ipad allows me to do a bit whenever I can. We don’t shower, we use flannels and boil just enough hot water for a good wash inside the van each morning. I know that can be hard to imagine but we have no difficulty keeping clean this way. We sterilise the flannels and all the other cloths with steam every morning after use which keeps them fresh. The flannels are actually small travel towels and they dry quickly whilst driving. We have a 100 amp lithium leisure battery and I think a 120 watt solar panel. Lithium is expensive but is proving very capable and we have never even got near being short of power. Lithium accepts every bit of charge its given so its quickly refilled either by the engine or the solar. Normal batteries quickly fill to 80% but are very slow to top off to 100%. Our battery can be safely discharged to 20% whereas a normal battery only to 50%.
@@LifeistooshortCK thank you for your quick and elaborated response! Very helpful indeed :) Save and happy travels. Are you done for this year or do you keep traveling during the fall and winter?
Lovin the Ireland trip. Just watched 4 episodes back to back. Saving the rest for tomorrow 😂😂😊
Your filming and editing skills combined with well mar rates information you include on the places puts your videos over the top. I really enjoyed this.
Thank you 👍
Sneaking into the museum! Rebel kids!!🤣💜👍
I really enjoyed this. I visited the Alcock and Brown landing site in 2011 . I heard that they followed the radio signal from Newfoundland to Clifton. They’ve developed the site a lot since then. When I was there you couldn’t walk out to the white monument . Also - the peats cut stacked at the side of the road are for burning in people’s homes ( like coal ) we call it turf ... it’s a great tradition where families rent a section of the bog and each year they go and cut turf, stack it until it dries and then take it home . Great video !
Its very easy access to the site now and whilst we were there two cars drove right up to the white monument. There is just a gate across the track but anyone who has trouble walking can drive through. I really enjoyed that day 👍
Ken, what a poetic interpretation of the "singing poles" and change over to wireless! I think the parabolic reflector actually worked well. I can hear you just fine from America. I bet that guard felt rather "sheepish" after she realized she'd let you pass! 😂
Good to hear the reflector worked. I am going to fit one to the roof of the van to see if it helps with a wifi signal. I hope they don’t miss it from Derrigimlagh. 😏 I wish I had never shown the guard now as I don’t want her to lose her job 👍
I have been watching from your first post right through. Have to say one of the best channels for showing of our great country in such detail with fantastic narration 👌..... hope you are enjoying the trip and thank you 🙏 keep up the great videos, 👍
Thanks Martin very kind of you to say so 👍
Good afternoon carol & Ken, another fabulous video with excellent narrative from both of you. Great too see carol doing more of the presentation ( not that I don’t like to see your young face Ken, lol ). A Bit of added information on the Peat for you, peat bogs in rural Ireland are generally passed down through father to sons many being owned by same families for many generations, several members of the families benefit from the Turf ( the name for peat used for burning). The cutting of turf is very skilled and taught from a young age, normally the men of family would go out cutting from April/ May depending on the weather, older generations cut and the younger men lifted. The turf would be left to dry during the summer and turned regular men & women would go and do this ( i did this for many years each summer) it was a great day out with hard work and great food ( cold tea in a lemonade bottle- no one had a flask back then) soda bread ham and cheese. By end of August the turf was dry and off we would go for a few days of bringing home the Turf, I have lovely memories of doing this with my cousins, all of us on summer holidays from UK. We got paid in red lemonade and a whipped ice cream at the end of the day. Great craic & many hands make light work, several generations would benefit all winter long from the fuel, and there is nothing in this world that too me smells as good as a turf fire. Happy & safe travels to you Ken & carol.
Hi Sandra. Many thanks for explaining your story about the turf and there is a lot I didn’t know. I bet that was an enjoyable experience helping bring it home. What is red lemonade ?
Life is too short, hi red lemonade is called a Minerals drink in Ireland ( minerals refers to a soft drink ie non alcoholic) there are 2 brands which are ready available in Ireland Nash & TK ( Nash which is the oldest company started in 1875 in Limerick County Clare) can be bought in UK 🇬🇧 at Morrisons stores, a great place to buy many Irish products) many people think it’s like Iron brew or Tizer ( it’s nothin like either IMO). The red lemonade can be used as a soft drink (Mineral) for children or as a mixer for many alcoholic drinks- quite often ladies will mix the red lemonade with Guinness, Paddy & Red - Jimmy & Red are ordered allot- Paddy - Jameson whiskey mixed with red lemonade. For example If you hear at a bar “ can I have a mineral” it will be a soft drink. Hope that helps with your journey and understanding of the culture of Ireland. Safe and happy travels
I also remember those days well Sandra and they used to be scorching with no place to go for shade. I always came back sun burned. Also that's why so many men and women with fair skin developed melanomas in later years, no sun protection and no shade.
I remember my cousin finding a lump of butter that was well preserved from previous generations.
Nothing beats that intoxicating smell of burning turf.
Sadly most houses are run on oil fired heating now and those massive big tractors cutting the bog producing turf sausages instead of the traditional cuts.
Things will never be like those old times. ☘️
Have just joined you on your travels and it’s quite a feast. Being 83 and still not needing a hearing aid, I appreciate your easy to listen style and good clarity of words. Two things in this episode ticked my boxes. In 1970 we travelled across Canada form Calgary to Newfoundland. One of our visits there was to Signal Hill where on December 12, 1901 Marconi received his first transatlantic transmission from England! And then there’s the piles of peat. We have a lot of peat underground here in Canada and I can remember going camping and seeing signs “please no camp fires”. Reason being if a camp fire ever caught the peat underground there would be a huge underground burn that could conceivably burn for years undermining the ground on which we walk. Spent 3 months in Sheffield baby sitting a granddaughter and many times visited my grandmother in Blackheath SE London. Thanks.
Glad to bring back some memories Joan. Peat is a renewable energy source and yet they are banning its use.
My wife's family still go into the bog each year to cut peat. They stack it in "stoocks" to dry for a few weeks before taking it home. My father-in-law worked his whole life for Bord na Mona at the West Offaly power station near Birr, which generated electricity by burning peat. Bord no Mona have closed the station, but still extract peat for horticultural purposes
The way things are going with power they might need to re-open that peat power station 😁👍. All this wonderful renewable energy and we are not allowed to use it 🙄👍
Loving these video diaries, not only the beautiful scenery but the dialogue and the way you both interact. It is so refreshing and calming with so much madness around us. Found myself saying yummy at lunch today. Good grief, next we’ll be buying a van and pottering around the countryside on adventures.
I am sorry to say that our affliction started with saying yummy. Its all downhill from there 😏👍😁
Great video showing the stunning Connemara landscape with your wonderful descriptions
Good thing the guard was on his grass-break. Baa! Lovely video, and wonderfully narrated. I believe I may stop off in the Bog when I spend a night or to in Letterfrack. Thank you for posting.
Thanks for watching. Well worth a visit 🙂👍
Another great view of Ireland. Thanks for all the hard work you both put into these videos. Youre both troopers.
Thanks 👍
Thanks for another excellent video. Peat is still burned by many people in their homes. It gives off a very pleasant smell but the fire needs almost constant feeding. In one of your earlier videos you stayed in Londonderry/Derry. Amelia Earhart landed there in a field after becoming the first female to cross the Atlantic solo. Sadly, she was killed around 1937.
I want to smell peat burning now. I didn’t know about Amelia Earhart landing in Derry 👍
Bloody hilarious! XD Enormous fun to watch each Éire episode! XD This one is special with the cute sheep-guards and the Atlantic-flight history lesson! Thank you! :) Not to forget the wonderful dronescapism and landscape! :) Love the beach shots and probably I would be there swimming happily too! Never mind the cold! :D bear hugs, Kata
Thanks Kata. Carol wishes she had been brave enough to swim in the sea but it was just too cold for us 🥶😁
Loved that video. Great music too. My mum was born on
the island of Inisturk and then lived in Cifden in Galway. Thanks.
Thanks Peter. Your Mum was lucky to live in such a beautiful place 👍🙂
We enjoyed your video Ken & Carol. We found it to be informative and interesting and the way you narrated through the video was great. TY FS. Sue, Brian and The Westies.👍🐶🐾😷👏🏻
Thanks Sue 👍
Carol's cooking is impressive!
Thanks Sharon 🙂
Lovely blog guys, interesting too and a lovely scenic one. They speak Irish (gaelic) in Connemara. Stay Safe.
Another super vlog, it was most piquant! Thank you both
Great shots of the scenery Ken, something I still do after caring for my late mother is carry a box of disposable gloves (A) Driving a diesel vehicle came in handy at petrol stations due to inconsiderate people taking all the gloves during COVID (B) they also come in handy for doing maintenance checks on the vehicle and changing tyre's (my vehicle is the same age as the little red camper and still has a full size spare)(C) going to places with interactive displays put a glove on and your protected.
Great idea. Disposable gloves have so many good uses 🙂👍
Just found your UA-cam channel and have subscribed! I love Ireland and am enjoying my armchair tour. Thank you for bringing a great escape to my day!
Mary G. Glad you are enjoying the tour. Thanks for subscribing 😀
Fantastic views and scenery
The peat is left out to dry. Glad you are enjoying our wee country.
It always fascinates me whenever I see peat being cut. Its one of those rare events that connects us to our past, a bit like seeing cart horses pulling a plough. Clearly leaving it out uncovered works as most piles we saw were uncovered but I would have thought the rain would take you back to stage 1 again. The other thing that surprises me is that the powers that be have not shut it down to stop global warming. I wouldn’t support that, its a renewable energy source and we need to hang onto skills like that.
Life is too short there is a push to restrict peat cutting alright but mostly aimed at the large corporations who sell it commercially rather than the individual who cuts by hand. It’s big business as you can see in garden centers (all that lovely peat for gardeners)
Peat is there to dry out and be used in the winter as fuel.
Love the views along that road enjoy. 👍🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴👍🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴👍
I particularly enjoyed this one as I spent a number of summer holidays in Roundstone and Dogs Bay. There once was a basic campsite, a field really, with no facilities near the beach where we really "wild" camped. The mountain on your left as u turned into Dogs Bay is called Errisbeg. It was the first mountain I climbed at the ripe old age of 7.
Nice to be able to trigger some memories Fergus, I always like when that happens. I know exactly what you mean by really ‘wild’ camping. Our version is the equivalent of a five star hotel next to a bit of canvas 👍.
Well done guys for tracking down and showing us that historic site with Marconi and first transatlantic crossing, so refreshing that you are reaching the parts of Ireland that other channels don't reach. If only Carlsberg did UA-cam videos.
If Carlsberg start making videos we are done for 😏👍😁
Generally peat is left to dry in mounds before being burned hence the mounds of peat you see.
thank you very much :-)
Very good upload loved the journey and the talk nicely done liked
Thanks very much 👍
Very nice. Idea. Thanks for sharing. Yes the water looked very cold for swimming. Brrrrr....LOL
lovely part of the country...you are moving closer to where i'm from which is just as nice.
Brilliant history lesson keep it up nice part of Ireland looking forward to the next one
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How wonderful. Thanks a million for yet another beautiful vlog. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it
One word: Excellent.
Thanks very much Danny 👍
Really enjoying your videos 😊 very interesting and you take some stunning shots of the beautiful scenery .Carol you are a genius in the cooking department 😋
Thanks for saying so Eva 😀
I just finished watching all your videos! Absolutely fantastic! I look forward to your future adventures! Thanks for sharing.viewing from Wisconsin
All of them without the need for an therapy. Result 😁👍
Loving your adventure. I am a proud Irishman and you capture the beauty and colours of Ireland wonderfully. Also your meals look very tempting. Cookbook next maybe ? Thank you both
Thanks for that Willie. From what we observed Ireland have a lot to be proud of 👍
Very informative segment. We love your music choices in all your videos. Peace be with you both.
Thanks Wesley. Peace be with you as well 😏
Thanks for sharing. I must say I’ve been a little disappointed with the scenery. For some reason I expect it to be more like North Wales. Love the cooking and the meals Carol comes up with. Jeff
I think there are many spectacular places that we missed. There are bits very similar to North Wales but for us its more like the Outer Hebrides, especially those beaches. The mountains remind us of Iceland. Carol does a great job with the meals and its surprising what you can do on 2 gas rings 👍
Ambleton Layout my thoughts having lived for a while in Wales is that the scenery in Nth Wales is very similar to Ireland (but maybe I’m biased being from Ireland LOL)
This is particularly so in Glenveigh National Park (Donegal), Connemara National Park (Galway) and also all along the Dingle, Beara and Iveragh Peninsulas in the SW - the mountain ranges and Atlantic Coastline are spectacular.
Plus there is the unique moonscape of the Burren National Park.
Maybe have a look online at some photos or videos and see for yourself?
Both countries are each spectacular - neither is ‘nicer’ than the other 😁👍🏻❤️🇮🇪🏴🇬🇧
Hello from the Oregon Coast. We very much look forward to your videos 👍
Hello from the Sussex coast. Glad you like them 👍
Excellent 💚☘️ thank you for sharing. There’s So much beautiful in Ireland 💚☘️
Cheers 🙂
Great video and brings back such fond memories of our time in that area. We stayed in Roundstone (saw O'Dowds in the video which we walked to from our rental flat) and did the sky loop in Clifden and stopped at the same places you did. The views in that area with the mountains of Connemara are some of the best in Ireland from what I can tell. Can't wait to go back. Cheers!
Glad you enjoyed it
Peter O'Toole lived on Sky road and not too far away Charles De Gaulle used to go on holidays.
Marconi's mother was Irish, Annie Jameson ( of the Jameson Whiskey family ) and his first wife, Beatrice O'Brien, was also Irish.
Never knew that Noel. I always enjoy hearing the back story to places and people. 👍
@@LifeistooshortCK We can only imagine the parties there must have been in Peter O'Toole's house. You must come back to Ireland as soon as this virus has passed. This is the first video of your's I come across and it has encouraged me to look at some more.
Noel Pucarua good to hear 👍. We certainly intend to return and finish the tour once covid is under control and its easy to visit the larger towns 🙂
Still enjoying these.
Very nice really enjoying your travels around Ireland well done to you both and little red camper van for taking us along with yous cheers 👍
Thanks Rod. I always enjoy watching your drone explorations so I look forward to your next episode 👍
david this could mean you just fell short of one of irelands most spectacular trips the trip from kenmare to bantry but you definetly are right there are some amazing spots on the west coast next time your down that way take the trip between kenmare and bantry and the next day from bantry via durrus to sheeps head
My wife and I home based in Glengarriff a few years ago, and you are right about that drive; truly spectacular.
Recently found your channel such well produced video and lovely views thanks for sharing. Enjoy the rest of your trip
Thanks grumpy bear. That would be a good name for me 👍
Very interesting video and scenery. Peat is always burned in Ireland, it is left normally in small stacks to dry, then brought home in August. All my family relatives used to cut their own peat or turf as its also known. I think we still have a peat cutting spade in our Donegal home. I wish I still had my uncles turf creel which he made himself from wicker.
I'm surprised that you haven't mentioned about the distinct smell of burning turf on your travels, it is one of those distinct smells. We know we are home when we smell it traveling across the border in Northern Ireland.
It also still contains pollen from all those thousands of years and when bone dry and broken in half can send me rushing for the antihistamine when I get a fit of the sneezes. Lol
To stop flies setting off your alarm I would have assumed your alarm would have a pet mode, whereby you hold in the activation button on the fob until you hear a beep and then pets and flies can then move freely inside the van without setting off the alarm. That's what my van has anyway. 👍
I can’t say we smelt any peat being burned whilst we were there to be honest but I bet its very different from other fuels. Our van does have that option to disable the internal sensors but its a bit of a faff to use. Probably not as much faff as the fly spray though. 👍
Lovely! Thank you much!
You both becoming professionals. It feels like I am on tour with you both. Well done again. I catch up the other videos over the weekend
There is no rush they are not going anywhere. Thanks for your comment. 👍
Great job, really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing.
Cheers John.
You should be getting paid by the Irish tourist board, really good vlogs!
Thanks Thomas. There are so many people making travel vlogs these days on UA-cam its surprising we still have tourist boards 👍
This was wonderful thank you. I’d love to do that walk as it looked so interesting and the view of the 12 Bens is beautiful. I check UA-cam every day for new videos from you and am so happy when there is one 😁 They are so wonderful. Thanks again for sharing your trip with us. I do hope you return some day ❤️👍🏻🇮🇪🇬🇧
Thanks Mary. We will certainly be back again as there is so much more to see that we missed. We all need to get through this next Covid spike and pick up again when its safe. I think people will start getting edgy again about campervans soon. 👍
Life is too short yes sadly I agree. The numbers are not looking good and I think another major lockdown on the way ☹️ Stay safe & well you two. Let me know if I can help or advise in any way when you are planning your return 🙏🏻🤞🏻👍🏻
I can hear you in Ventura California ha ha!
That dish is amazing 😏
Another fabulous video filled with so many interesting facts and information. I always look forward to your videos and I have to say, I think Carol russells up some fantastic meals given the the limitations. Gosh I wish I could do as good a job for myself at home. I hope you appreciate it. 🤣👍
I certainly appreciate it Martyn and she is an excellent cook. The secret to food tasting nice is plenty of salt and pepper and then the odd other ingredient. The health police have destroyed the taste of food but if you season it yourself it comes back to life. Its a team effort in the van, Carol cooks and I edit. I can cook just as well as I was taught by my mum, a Lancashire lass who knew how to make anything taste good 😏
Great vlog and well produced
Thank you 😊
Wish I was there holidaying..visited dublin 2018/19...not sure when I am going set foot again...Durban south africa
Now that is a long way away. 👍
men, the way you present great, here South East Asia I dream of being in the van like that all the time ecxept the heat and mosquito not allow it lol
Our climate has some benefits but we also have the dreaded midges. I would melt where you live 🙂
I'm really enjoying my/your trip around Ireland 🍷🍺👍🏼
Thanks Chris 👍
another great video, just like the history channel, really enjoyed it, we want to go there now :)
Its certainly worth a visit. Thanks 👍
Great episode! I wish I was brave enough to dip in cold waters like that, as they say it’s so good for you....I might brave it in a wet suit!! 😂. Glad you’re including all your meals again for us food obsessed subscribers!
It probably is really good for you and I am sure it makes you really feel alive afterwards. Well that is what everyone told us and there are so many of them doing it I think it has to be true. Carol has a rather old relative in Llanelli Wales who has swam in the sea most days of his life. He has amazing health and is sharp as a tack.
New subscriber...Binge watched your earlier posts and loved it...I do have one suggestion though...I think you should change the name of the channel from "Life is too short" to 'Life, liberty and the pursuit of a PUBLIC LOO'....
Its catchy but not catchy enough 😁👍
Lovely 😊
From Clifden down to Kenmare via the peninsulas, absolutely my favourite place in Ireland to spend 10 days. That being said, there aren't many parts of the country I don't like! 😁
We just love Ireland and Kenmaer were in Clifton last year we had a beautiful house 🏡.We stayin houses when we come go to Ireland we just love Ireland . We were so sad when we couldn't come this year 😢 the virus 😷 stop us . Were coming Next Year .A Virus not stopping us .🙏🙉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hello Carol & Ken , wonderful video , makes me feel like i am there :) great thumbnail remember when people search, it is your video title that comes up too :) sorry i just think your videos are wonderful :)
Never be sorry about offering tips to improve the channel. I appreciate your help and I do act on them. Changing all the titles and more thumbnails this morning. Cheers 👍
Hi Ken and Carol love your videos great drone work and good quality, what drone do you use.
Jimmy Farrell DJI Mavic Air 2 👍
Another great video 👌☺️
Thanks Debs 👍
Hi , really enjoying your videos . Love seeing around Ireland . Do you have a day today schedule before you start your trips or just a general idea of what you would like to see . Do you use any apps , websites or maps to find parking spots at night . Love the van and hope to get back to Ireland someday 👍👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
On our trips Carol enjoys doing the planning in advance. We usually have a huge list of potential places but we also don’t hesitate to deviate from the plan depending upon circumstances. Now that we have started our channel that also opens up suggestions from people with local knowledge. Park4Night is a useful app, Pocket Earth is great for finding toilets and Google maps satellite view combined with street view can also show potential parkups. 👍
Lovely video, again! I really like your voice over and your choice of music. Do you do all the editing in your campervan? And as I am planning on buying a small van and turning it into a camper as well, I am curious about a few things. Where do you shower? How much solar power and battery capacity do you have and is that enough? Do you have heating in your van and do you use it a lot? Thank you so much for sharing your adventures and make it look so doable and enjoyable 🌞❤️
Yes I edit in the van on an ipad although this episode was completed at home. I do most of the filming and all of the editing which is why you see Carol doing a lot of the driving and most of the cooking. There is little downtime on a trip so the ipad allows me to do a bit whenever I can.
We don’t shower, we use flannels and boil just enough hot water for a good wash inside the van each morning. I know that can be hard to imagine but we have no difficulty keeping clean this way. We sterilise the flannels and all the other cloths with steam every morning after use which keeps them fresh. The flannels are actually small travel towels and they dry quickly whilst driving. We have a 100 amp lithium leisure battery and I think a 120 watt solar panel. Lithium is expensive but is proving very capable and we have never even got near being short of power. Lithium accepts every bit of charge its given so its quickly refilled either by the engine or the solar. Normal batteries quickly fill to 80% but are very slow to top off to 100%. Our battery can be safely discharged to 20% whereas a normal battery only to 50%.
@@LifeistooshortCK thank you for your quick and elaborated response! Very helpful indeed :) Save and happy travels. Are you done for this year or do you keep traveling during the fall and winter?