HaldeCrate
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Tintern Abbey (Ireland, not Wales)
You can’t tell me there aren’t fairies here. Why is there a Tintern Abbey? Let me see if I can tell you like an Irish person would. Yer man William, see, was coming over from his lands in Wales because he had an Irish bride. The weather was shite, and he vowed that if he
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The Wexford Wildfowl Reserve
Every birder should go to the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve. Like Sweetwater Branch or the La Chua trail, you’re going to see different animals depending on what time of year it is and what the weather is like. On this day I my primary goal was to patiently train my camera on lots of ducks and
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Walking around Wexford
Wexford was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for/expecting from a small Irish town. Village? I know there are classifications but off the top of my head I can’t remember what the dividing lines are. Anyway; a mix of old houses set back on large properties with stone fences, dingy row houses right up
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Somerset
Have you read Burnett’s Secret Garden? Or Tana French’s The Likeness? Then you might have an idea of what you expect, what you see in your head, when your friend tells you he’s bought a place in vaguely rural Ireland. You’d be right. This place is almost unreal. A little over two acres, I think,
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The train from Dublin to Wexford
This almost broke me, y’all. The morning did not start out great. Breakfast was fine, but after breakfast when I went back up to the room to finish packing and tool around on the Internet for my last two hours of wifi – checkout was at 11 and my train didn’t leave until 1:30 so
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Three parks in Dublin
There are more than three parks in the city, of course, but I got to three of them. Funny story – I mean to go to three of them; one with an Oscar Wilde statue, one with a Yeats memorial, and one garden that my friend Hawk said was his favorite and that not a
