The Walk Almost Finished Me, But Was It Worth it? My Visit To The Alcock & Brown Landing Site…
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- Also in this video: An unexpected tour and a special guest appearance! My crazy day trying to get to a very significant aviation site. Enjoy the video!
Filmed on Tuesday 17th September 2024
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How lovely that lady was to give you a little tour.
Walking on main roads like that one is fairly dangerous, they are really narrow and lack a proper verge. She probably decided he was going to get himself run over
As a kid growing up in London the only thing we called a 'bog' was a toilet, so when I learned about Alcock and Brown crashing in an Irish Bog I thought imagine flying all that way to land in a toilet! Another fascinating video Steve, reminded me of a visit to the Marconi station at The Lizard, Cornwall. Great local lady, and that Scott fella he just keeps turning up.
What a lovely lady, friendly, helpful and knowledgeable ❤
I’ve found the Irish always very warm and helpful people just like the Scots!
Thank you Sofia for giving Steve a lift, respect.
Well that lady is a perfect example of the friendliness of the Irish.
Thanks again Steve, really felt for you along that dangerous road. What a lovely lady giving up her lunch and giving us the opportunity of seeing such lovely views.
Despite the doom and gloom of the news cycle i've found there are many 'Sofia's around who are willing to inconvenience themselves out of the goodness of their hearts to help a fellow human!
Well said!
Aww man what a lovely Lady she was to show you around great video steve and thanks again for taking me around with you 👍
Recipe: 1. Take a random flight 2. Take a fairly random coach or two 3. Take a long hazardous walk to somewhere beautiful and interesting 4. Take an extra tour with a kind stranger. Thanks Steve, your videos really do make me smile! :-)
It's very funny seeing things I'd seen as ordinary, having grown up in the area, from the perspective of someone seeing them for the first time. That walk out of Clifden is something I wouldn't attempt myself.
Some of the friendliest and helpful people I have met were in Ireland. Picture the scene, late at night lost in the middle of nowhere on way from west to east to catch ferry. Pull up in pub car park to try and read map. Guy comes out "where you going mate " starts to tell us way, then says, "hang on easier if I show you, follow me" which we did for about 30 minutes, until he stops, says you are now on main road, just keep following until you get there we did and caught ferry with plenty of time to spare. Where else do you get this kind of help? And a fantastically beautiful country as well? Once again thank you for video and a good start to Saturday morning.
Unbelievable eh! (Well VERY believable in Ireland!) 🇮🇪
@@barball3955 that's what we do all over rural Ireland have done it countless times myself
@@steve-marsh We do that all the time in rural Ireland, have done it countless times myself
Kind lady thankyou
She drove you a long way. You’d still be walking 😂
It was lovelly listening to that lady tell you about the area. And what a beautiful accent .... no wonder Ireland produces so many great singers.
Fantastic! There are some truly wonderful people out there.
Steve I am surprised you didn't know what the berries were ( brambles ) they grow wild in Scotland. Also what a lovely lady that picked you up.Just showes you there is still nice people in the world. That toastie and soup looked lovely and tasty.Nice that you managed to have a quick catch up with Scott.
Shannon Airport in Ireland and St. John’s Airport in Canada are both located as close as practical on where the Great Circle Route between London and New York intersects the respective Atlantic coastlines.
Charles Lindbergh recommended the Shannon site to the Irish Government.
Great video Steve. Yet again. Such beautiful scenery and friendly people!
Great to see you and Scott together. I am subbed to both of your channels. ⭐️⭐️⭐️👍👍👍 from 🇦🇺
I'd love for Scott and Steve to go on an adventure together. That would be really cool. Probably get a few videos worth of footage for both channels.
Kind people are everywhere.
Thanks Steve for another great video, wonderful scenery and a history lesson and what a godsend Sophia was and a wealth of information. Thankyou again and stay safe and well, cheers from Oz.
Brilliant Steve, absolutely brilliant, hope to see more Ireland videos soon, you paint wherever you go so vividly and in a great light :D
Loving your Irish adventures!
And yeah, taxis aren’t really a thing in rural Ireland… they exist but you need to book them, it would be rare to just find one.
I love your videos. Such a chill and down to earth ambient.
You were there on maybe three days of the year when it's sunny 😂I had a feeling someone would give you a lift.Thank you to Sofia! 👏
Haha my timing was perfect!
What a dear, sweet woman! Beautiful land.
I could listen to Sophia all day long ...kind soul to give you & lift & mini tour ..Great video Steve 😉
If you are in the midwest of Ireland try get down to Foynes to the flying boat museum to see a bit more of the early history of trans Atlantic flying
Cheers for the tip!
Your trip was worth it ! Really enjoy this one . I loved the scenery and the visit to the Alcock and Brown monuments was interesting… you could imagine the relief of landing there after that first flight
What a lovely lady picking you up. Those roads 😮. Nice to see someone proud of the area they are in
That was a mad walk to the monument. As they say in these parts, you'll be as fit as a lop! Man, you have some long days.
What a splendid lady, picking you up and giving you the tour of that wonderful scenery.
What a lovely lady. Clearly very proud of the place she calls home 😊
5:59 Yep, they’re blackberries. When I was little I used to go round with a carrier bag collecting them along a nearby canal so mum could make jam. Great stuff!
Ah fellow Coke Zero fan. Fair play.
Can confirm 😉
One fantastic video, Steve. They all are. Greetings from Australia. Saturday evening here.
Brilliant, your own personal tour guide
Kind lady with a pot plant on her dashboard. Great to be in Ireland. Wonderful video. Thank you
Hi Steve 👋 great video clip 👍
Excellent once again. ❤I was just thinking, on your walk back on that windy road “surely someone will give you a lift” totally wonderful that Sofia gave you a lift AND tour! Brilliant! Well done Sofia. X
I love the front seat of a coach 😊
Welcome to Ireland! Roads here are barely made for cars let alone pedestrians :) Great video as always.
Thanks! 😃
Yet another amazing video Steve scenery was awesome and Sophia a wee Irish Gem ❤
Steve you should definitely visit kylemore Abbey it is very beautiful.
There are always some good people out there to help a traveller. I made the mistake of getting off at the wrong train station when visiting Oslo. I got off at Kjelsas instead of Grefsen for the youth hostel. I wandered around a bit, realising my error ( a mix-up between tram and train stop names), and found a cafe that was just closing up. One of the ladies, Inga, said it would be too difficult to describe the walk, so she gave me a lift to the youth hostel. I was so grateful, as it was quite the distance. Although I was more concerned about damaging her car with my backpack or boots, as she had an immaculate BMW with white leather seats. One of the good people.
Haha I can imagine you sitting there trying not to mess up the car 🤣 fantastic story!
Super video.
You showed some great shots of the area. Clifden is always a great place to visit. I would say though trying to get to those sights without a vehicle a bit of a challenge. Plus you are lucky it didn’t rain on you.
Sophia came to the rescue. She drove you up the sky road and gave you a great tour.
Personally on my many trips to Clifden getting up the Sky Road is always the highlight. Either to walk it or drive it or ideally both.
Great filming. Great video. I always enjoy your videos and travel challenges.
Thanks.
Thanks so much!
A very good Saturday morning to you all from Wellington Somerset
Yeovil checking in! Saturday morning now cup of tea and Steve Marsh time!
Morning Somerset and Yeovil from a sunny Wexford!
Same to you!
Fantastic video Steve. So nice of that lady to give you a lift and show you around as well. Great to see Scott as well at the end, both your videos and his are always so interesting.
A really interesting place to visit. And Sofia/Sophia was very kind to give you that lift. It's amazing how many people will pick up hitchhikers even today. I'd recommend Harry Dwyer's round-Britain RIB videos to see just how many generous people there actually are.
What a beautiful & generous lady. The Irish people are just so gorgeous!
What a star Sofia is, an absolute angel😊That walk was scary Steve but so beautiful👌That drive Sofia took you on was just breathtaking, I was very jealous of those cyclists😉Missing the bus by 2 minutes was a real bummer, you sure tried your hardest Steve and I was knackered watching you😂Cracking video mate👍
Cheers mate!
I know I'm biased as my parents are from Galway . Such a beautiful county with genuinely lovely and warm people like Sofia x .
A great trip and a nice aviation history lesson. Sofia is a champ! Thanks.
Very enjoyable vlog. The kindness of that lady though, to give up her lunch break, very cool.
Also on these trips, you're highlighting the local transport systems. On the whole, I'd suggest very good. 😎☯️🌱
What stunning scenery, Steve! So kind of Sofia to pick you up and show you that amazing road! Bet you slept well at the end of all this!
Stunning sceneries and what a lovely lady! Great video!
What a selfless thing to do to take you all that way.such generosity from that lady.but you wouldent have seen that beautifull scenery.ive been along those roads many times on our holidays to Galway the Birthplace of my Grandfather.so thank you for taking me back.must admit I've tear's in my eye's.thank you so much.☘️☘️
Fantastic stuff Steve! We need to add Clifden and it's surrounding area back to our to-do list!
I imagined you meeting Alicia at the airport and her saying “Hello Steve, have you had a nice quiet couple of days while I was away?” :-). Nice video, great trip.
Stunning scenery in this video. I hope you get to go back to explore more. Lovely to see Scott too!
What a stunning place
Very good video. I look forward to another one...😊
Stunning trip! Much enjoyed!
well done for getting a Ryanair flight back to Scotland for a tenner! in recent months the cheapest I've got is 15 quid one way. Sadly long gone are the days when you could get a return to Dublin for a tenner!
The flight was totally empty too!
Thanks Steve super interesting video as per normal 👍
You met a true Galway lady. To be a Uber driver in Ireland you have to have a taxi license. Free now is like Uber but like you experienced, it isn't easy to get a car at peak times such as school runs as they are booked up for school transport. They should have known that.
You certainly got your steps in for this video. This is cracking, thanks Steve x
How lovely of Sofia and her beautiful voice.
Really enjoyed the video Steve. Such nice people in Ireland. Those roads remind me of Devon & Cornwall! Hope to semi follow in your footsteps next June…
Wonderful from start to finish. The scenery in Connemara was breathtaking, but I also loved the way you captured the story of the journey home.
Glad you enjoyed it!
6:06 are blackberries and they are very good. Some nice ripe ones there - ready for picking.
Lovely encounter with a wonderfully kind lady in a beautiful place.
Great video, and very nice of Sofia to both pick you up instead of having to walk that narrow road, and then showing you around. The price of that plane ticket is ridiculous btw, it's almost the same price as your lunch (only like 1 or 2 euros/pounds of difference), except that it is for a few hundred miles of travel. It feels impossibly cheap (and for some reason that frustrates me a bit). Still, great scenery over there in Ireland, sounds like an area that would definitely be worth checking out
Thankyou sofia it was so kind of you to help steve out. his videos are awesome and thankyou for we also got to see some lovely scenrey
Good video,did the sky road a few months back and the views were breathtaking,lovely part of the world.
Nice to see the home town in the video outside Dublin as well!
While I was watching the video from Scott at Planes, Trains, Everything when he went from Dublin to Cork with Irish rail, I felt surprise when I happen to see Steve Marsh as I knew who could be.
Marvellous, the best travel show there is. Ought to be on tv, but then maybe not hey...given state of tv. When you go back, try to see Foynes flying boat and aviation museum Steve. Not sure if Margaret still runs it though. She was great and i shared a BBC Radio 4 show with her when i talked about my flight up the Zambezi in a WW2 Catalina PBY flying boat . Flying boats are wonderful.
Sophia was amazing
Great video Steve, such a beautiful place to visit and so good you managed to get a lift. I think this would a good place to do some photography. I guess you will be doing another video!
Great video Steve. Next time you come to the West of Ireland give me a shout!
For sure!
Great post Steve, what an amazing place! That walk was super dangerous, given so much traffic! Once again, your post got me to read about these guys, must admit, whom I knew nothing about. Both served in WWI and were POW's. The Vickers Vimy they flew was a bomber. Great reading on Wikipedia. Thanks for risking life and limb! The ride around was also beautiful, never been to Ireland, but my brother has and says it is a most beautiful place, really nice people too! (Thank you to the wonderful Sofia who gave you the ride!)
The people really do make Ireland, incredible place!
Just to say how great your channel is. I’ve been watching all year, starting up with all the old stuff. I almost commented before but this time had to. After seeing last weeks I knew where you were going. I’ve been to Clifden twice. Both times were in Arts Week and I recommend you go there then. The live music is incredible and it would make a fantastic pub crawl; I’ve done it. I spent a week each time with a hiking club who took over the Alcock and Brown hotel (the owner was a friend of a friend; isn’t that always the way in Ireland). Each time we had a hire car and drove out to the landing site. The second time it looked like it was in your video but the first (only a couple of years earlier) it was very different. There were no display boards, car park or walkways. We had to open a farm gate and drive down a potholed track. All there was was the concrete monument, not whitewashed and without the platform and railings around it. I gave to say it was the information about the Marconi site I found most fascinating. I recommend reading Wikipedia about it. In particular the story about how the townspeople used to climb up to the monument you visited to watch the huge sparks fly from the 100m high aerials when it was transmitting. In a town which didn’t get electricity till the 50’s it must have been something in 1920. Keep up the good work.
A fantastic read, thanks for sharing and for your support of the channel!
Fair play to Sofia.
Certainly a physically heavy and stressful journey, but WOW! An interesting and nice video! Interesting history and beautiful places! Thanks Steve! 😄👍
What an excellent video. I went to Clifden in 1977; just great to see it again.
Those magnificent men and their flying machines.
Stunning views and great autum weather.
That was amazing 👍💕
Just amazing never knew this place existed - excellent clips and just great to see - great to watch on a wet Saturday morning in Tipperary Thank you
Glad you enjoyed Connemara, welcome to the Wild Atlantic Way, glad the weather was good for you.
Having watched the first video, I was curious how you were getting to the monuments. Surely you would not walk - surely. Well my hat is off to you doing that walk. Great to see another perspective on a visit to my country.
Haha I knew it’d all go wrong and I’d end up walking!
@steve-marsh Being familiar with the area have been there several times over the years. Including this year. I knew the options were going to be poor 😒
love the vid steve well done
Nice video people still have the time to show you around
In recent years, Local enthusiasts have used geophysics to help find the precise spot.This relies upon the fact that the Vimy was dismantled and removed by Vickers factory staff on-site and some parts may have been Intentionally left behind.
Really interesting video full of great sights. Big thumbs up for the lady who picked you up, what a lovely thing to do.
She was a star!
You're a gass man fair play, I enjoyed that ..😊☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I don't know what I was expecting it to look like but it wasn't this. Incredibly beautiful landscapes and coastline with so many wonderful colours (aside from regulation mid-green!) Another fine watch, cheers. P.S. Suggestion for when you go back ... humans can rent bicycles! Now that would've sorted you out. 😉
I was going to mention the bicycle hire.
But - imagine me trying to speak to camera on that road on a bike! 🤣
walking on those narrow roads in the country takes some courage! I avoid it as much as I can. I value my life XD
Hi steve I was a manager in a building where Alcock was born it's called Basford house in Stretford Manchester it used to be a hospital
No way!!! Awesome :)
The only thing more lovely than the scenery is that accent! When I was that way there was a local shop I couldn't understand a word of but most places they had that soft twang you associate with Ireland.
I can tell you from experience that driving them roads is stressful if you're not used to them.
WOW scary Way too narrow for walking Glad you survived Steve