There's two of us but you think you can make it by eight o'clock?
Yeah, we hope so too.
Good morning guys.
It's day one of our Ireland adventure and unfortunately we are stuck in London's Stansted
right now.
We hopped on the wrong tram, the flight closes at 7.30 and it's 7.30 right now, so um..
We'll see what happens.
Hopefully we'll make it on this flight.
Cheers!
Well, as Alex might have explained our venture in Ireland is off with a bit of a mishap but
once the trip starts it's going to be amazing.
We're doing a 9 day trip through Ireland, down the wild Atlantic way,
experiencing Ireland's nature at its finest,
down to County Cork, the food scene that has sprouted up down there the last couple decades
and up to Dublin to cover design and a bunch of cool hunting stuff in the capital.
So it's going to be an amazing trip.
That all depends on if we make this flight or not.
The plan right now is to go surfing on the west coast of Ireland today, but we got to
make this plane.
Wish us luck.
Hopefully, RyanAir, you guys come through.
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Doors open.
Thank you.
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How cliche can it get?
Arrive in Ireland and find a rainbow out the window.
[Airplane turbulence]
Whoa!
Whoo hoo!
That will be us later though.
Boom!
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Our first stop on this epic Ireland trip is Strandhill.
And this is one of them surfing destinations here in the wild Atlantic way.
The Atlantic wave we should mention is actually one of the longest defined coast around the
world.
It's 2500 km long, so we will be hitting a couple of spot on web net in the next few
days,
but first off we get in the water, so we are meeting up with some local surfers.
What's going on?
Hey guys!
Please to meet you.
Marko.
Thank you.
Eddy.
Nice to meet you.
Sup?
Alex.
If you guys did not know that Ireland is actually one of the most underrated surfing destination
in the world,
it's cold water but there's some serious waves here, there's some huge waves.
It is kind it is like a coast it's like one of the most way rich part of Ireland,
there's limestone topography, pretty good reefs, a lot of good different set ups but
very difficult because of huge amount of tide and variables,
when it goes off it goes off.
Yeah we get you guys in the water it's not as cold as it looks, bum um...
Sounds good.
Let's do it.
[Surfing]
Guys we just finished our surf.
That was super fun!
Even though the waves were not anything really to write home about the whole experience was
unforgettable,
and I think that is probably the best way I have ever started any trip.
Off the plane, into the car, boom, right into the ocean and had a little surf.
Big thanks to Sheamus and Eddy for showing us around and taking us out of the water.
How about you bro?
Yeah!
It was definitely a lot warmer than I thought it was going to be.
It was just beautiful to get into the ocean with some beautiful surroundings right here.
But right now we are going to go and try out a seaweed bath, which I have never done before,
but apparently a hundred years ago seaweed baths were all the rage here.
Traditions were going on for 300 years and it is one of the few original seaweed bath
they kind of brought it back here so when you in to Voya
and meet with Neal who is going to tell us more about therapeutic properties of seaweed.
My name is Neil Walton
this is for seaweed baths,
and the reason why seaweed baths work is because seaweed and sea water is alkaline by nature.
Generally our blood are mildly acidic, so your body always wants to get back to a mild
alkaline state,
having seaweed baths will help your body get back into a balanced state.
You literally get this seaweed from out front?
Yeah we harvest the seaweed off the reefs.
So what we do we cut the seaweed three quarters way down and that gives the seaweed the ability
to grow back within three to four months period,
put in the barrels, bring it back into the baths here, wash it, steam it
Then it goes into the bath and all this spent, which is the used seaweed, we use in organic
farms locally here.
So completely organic and renewable?
Absolutely yeah.
There is a circle that goes around all the time and we are always working with nature
here.
Post surf to a seaweed bath?
Luxury.
We have had such a wild filming schedule in the last couple weeks that I just want to
really hop into this bath, and just soak, and get ready for the next 8 days of awesomeness.
Which means that I'm going to turn the camera off, I don't want to film anymore, I just
want to soak.
You know if we get a naked seaweed bath this might get a million views.
Nope.
Not happening.
Well guys that was absolutely…
It was unexpected, no?
Oh my God, such a surprise but so relaxing.
Yeah there was like a gel that came out of it that we were rubbing all over our faces.
It is super nice.
I feel 10 years younger.
Yeah but right now we're going to get some lunch next door at Shelf, which is like a
surfers kind of cafe.
I am Jane and I'm one-half of Shells Cafe.
My husband, Miles.
Where we are now is amazing.
We are across the Atlantic ocean, surf every day, and we are both like seriously foodies.
We both love food and cafe culture.
The west of Ireland is beautiful and stunning today to come but may be a bit behind and
you couldn't get a good coffee or you know really good homemade food.
So we just wanted to put like city food and that lovely vibe into the country side as
well.
It's nice.
It's a good flat white.
We don't have flat whites in America.
For some reason we are missing out.
I don't know why.
Alright guys well we've finished lunch and we've taken a quick drive to a place called
Knocknarea.
It's kinda like a mountain, but it's got a lot of significance in the past and it's full
of some really interesting archaeological ruins and tombs.
So we are meeting up with Auriel,
she's a marine archaeologist,
she's going to show us why this place is so special.
So tell us a bit about the history.
We know that this is very significant in the age of times,
Can you tell us what we are going to go see right now?
So just behind us is not very much and on top is a really famous cairn and said to be
the burial place of Queen Maeve of Connaught.
She's sexy.
She's quite pretty yeah.
So a cairn is the amount of stones and is extend or covering something, so inside here
is a prehistoric tomb dating back to the stone age, so it's probably by 5000 years old.
How far is it to the cairn?
It depends how fast you can walk.
I like to stall.
It's not a long way, probably about 20 minutes from here.
Let's go do it.
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This has to be one of the most spectacular sunsets I have ever seen.
It's just stunning.
You can see why they called it the wild Atlantic way because the winds are just blowing right
off the ocean
it's so rugged, just rugged natural beauty.
Look at the sun raise coming to the clouds man.
It's insane.
You can say there is just a lot of elements at play here and actually right there.
Random fact!
That's Coney island, the one in New York was named by a captain that was sailing between
here and New York.
It reminded...
Next stop actually over there.
Yes straight across the Atlantic.
Exactly.
So we are going to go walk down the mountain and head over for a pint and some dinner.
Sounds lovely.
Yes.
[music]
Cheers!
The first Guinness in Ireland.
I heard they pour a good one here.
Looks like it.
I'm going to get used to this this week.
This is going to be really nice.
Wow!
Whoo!
That was a good meal.
That was a great day.
Surfing, seaweed bath, awesome cafe, epic hike to royal burial ground, amazing sunset
and seafood dinner.
I mean that's day one.
There's still eight days more to go, tomorrow we're going down the wild Atlantic way towards
Gall away
We're going to be doing amazing stuff as always.
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