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blue good morning everybody apologies if you hear wind right now because um remember yesterday when i was raving on about the beautiful irish weather well something’s caught up to us so currently on a big road trip through ireland yesterday we did the causeway coastal route so make sure you go checkadd a notejump to
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out that blog if you missed it but today we’re going to be doing the wild atlantic way yesterday when we left you guys we actually drove from the east all the way to the west and we’ve stopped off at this tiny remote little place right on the water we’re staying in this cute little bnb
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it’s very nice and then last night we found the only shop that was open as this little fish and chip stand and we went and grabbed some this looks good thanks just pulled up on the side of the road and watched the sunset it was one of the best dates we’ve had let’s go check out this wild atlantic
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way because it sounds wild out there let’s do it oh my good morning okay bye-bye i think it’s a little bit windy out there wow okay it was quite an experience getting down here but now that we’re down on the beach it’s kind of sheltered from the wind a bit it’s a silver strand
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beach it is beautiful they say that this is the best place to come if you want to see a sunset and there’s sheep on the beach see there’s beach sheep and they’re not eating grass they’re eating the seaweed they’re sheep all right guys we’ve made our way out to the area of sleeve league we’ve come to
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a little lookout point called bungles point and we go for a bit of a walk i poked my head out there and wow there are some very high cliffs out here they say that they are one of the highest in europe over 600 meters yep it’s still windy oh wow the views from up here are
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amazing just look at the clouds rushing that’s how windy it is the clouds are rushing over the mountains so you can actually drive up here we thought that you had to park and walk but you just opened this up i think someone needs a coffee you you alrighty guys we’ve just come to the
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town of donegal it’s probably the biggest town that we’ve seen so far so we thought we’d pull over and find somewhere to eat because most of the other places there’s like they’re like everything’s closed in some of the towns they’re so quiet yes this one is not so quiet
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yeah we’re gonna go walk around see what we can find to eat this place looks good it smells good and it feels warm in here coming to the toastiest cutest little place this is the perfect place for the weather right now don’t you think uh-huh and we’ve gone for seafood chowder we’re obsessed with it
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it’s like our favorite probably our favorite dish here in ireland and you can get it everywhere like i didn’t know it was such like a irish thing seafood chowder but i’m guessing because we’re right near the atlantic so they have very fresh seafood here but yummy let’s test this one
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so we’ve had one before oh my gosh this has like heaps of seafood in it wow oh you can see the steam this is perfect for the weather i can see probably why it’s so popular here because it just goes with island weather 100 this is my favorite dish in ireland if you come to ireland you have to get a
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seafood chowder and we haven’t had a bad one yet we’re both very original both gone for the chowder also one last bit is the bread that they give you i mean this is just such nicely made homemade bread to dip in with your soup ah sorry for making you hungry guys i
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definitely think if you guys are coming to ireland road tripping is the best way it’s kind of cool because we’re only ever i think the longest we’ve driven is an hour even half an hour is probably the the longest you drive before you get to another stop that you want to kind of
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stop off at so it’s not a lot of driving also even when you’re not stopping the drive itself is so beautiful the landscape here is like nothing we’ve ever seen before so how have you been finding the roads here in ireland i know they look scary because a lot of them
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are one-way roads but if you’ve driven anywhere in the uk like england you you know what you’re getting into but coming from australia it’s all fine one funny thing is northern ireland because that’s part of the uk it was in miles per hour so i see the sign saying 50. i’m going 50 kilometers
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an hour everyone is speed demoning past me because in ireland it’s in kilometers but we went into northern ireland and it was in miles per hour and we didn’t know we’d cross the border yeah so that was my only little group on the on the drive all right guys we just checked into the
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place we’re staying the night which is strand hill and seeing as it’s quite a gloomy doomy day we thought we should do a little indoor activity and we found something that’s super popular here they’re called seaweed baths and what they do is they get they get seaweed from the atlantic and
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it’s basically all these different spa treatments and so we’re going to be doing a seaweed bath i’ve booked us into a seaweed bath that sounds are you ready wow i don’t know what to expect let’s go so it’s just in here voya seaweed bars and it’s just on this little strip
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that’s right on the water i really want to explore there’s like a little shop over here a little bakery yeah it’s a cool little town hey let’s go in all right guys we’ve just come into our room and we are literally bathing in seaweed look at that it’s literally a pile of
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seaweed in a nice hot bath and then there’s a steam room in here so they say that the seaweed is actually really good for your skin for hydration anti-aging and then there’s like a lot of iodine or something so it like draws out all the bad stuff i don’t know i’m not very we
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don’t do massages often but this is like something we’ve never done before but she said what you need to do first is do five minutes in the steam room and then you come and then you just relax in these bathtubs but are you ready it’s a 50 minute experience so she she
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recommended we just constantly drink water because it just gets so hot in here it just drains all the like negativity out of you all the bad stuff the steam room is so steamy yeah wow okay guys i’m gonna get uh into my bay this thing let’s put some seaweed on okay steam room time wow humidity in here
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all right you guys first stage is done i am sweating the humidity in there was crazy but steve i think i’ve made us through the weirdest like spa thing this is what it looks like i’m currently sitting in a bath covering seaweed um it’s a really hot bath really hot i’d put a bit of cold in because i
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couldn’t handle the heat um and you’re meant to sit in here now for 50 minutes and i think there’s like some sort of like slime coming off the seaweed because it’s making my skin feel how slimy my skin is oh really oh yeah what wow so i’ve got my water ready and i’m
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just going to sit and soak in here for the next 50 minutes look at you this is the weirdest thing i’ve ever made us do which now that’s really hot i can see the steam coming off it oh that is hot oh you can handle it yeah yeah that’s fine oh wow that’s so weird and you can just drink water
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and relax and get all slimy oh this is so weird the water is all slimy i think this is like the coolest wet weather day activity ever yeah i know when when it rains outside we bring the seaweed with us inside guys i feel so relaxed that was so good like our skin feels super soft and i
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feel like floopy but i didn’t realize that we’ve come to like this really cool beach town we didn’t even know where we were until we got here and they were like wait there’s people surfing we went to a really cool cafe next door to the seaweed place strand hill i really love your vibes
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going on at the moment it feels like cool with highland island lovely here yeah it feels like an australian beach town here in ireland but everyone’s got irish accents but everyone’s got irish accents good morning everybody it’s the next day here in strand hill and we thought we’d
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give you a bit of a room tour but we had to start at the balcony we have insane views of the water so we stayed the night in strange hill lodge and suites and this is our view of the beach it’s so nice it looks like there’s a bit of a golf course just over there as well
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and that’s the town where we headed into yesterday but we’ll show you guys inside and guys the storm is kind of gone blue skies a bit a bit so we are on the way out we try to make it presentable for you guys but we pretty much had this gigantic double bed for ourselves and of course a suitcase
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holder which was nice but yeah we’re checking out and i’m thinking we’re gonna go to brunch at the same place we had coffee out last night because that place wasn’t cool alrighty guys we’re doing kind of our last final stop here in ireland we’ve come to down patrick head because we have heard that
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there are some amazingly unique sea stacks out here in ireland and i think this is probably one of the most famous ones because it just looks like a massive tower just out in the middle of the ocean oh wow that’s cool that’s so cool oh my goodness it literally just drops off wow look there guys
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wow that’s so cool man what a good last sight here in ireland you are my favorite place to go you’re at the end of my favorite road above the rest you’re the best i know you are my faith it’s already nighttime welcome back to dublin everybody this is kind of marking the end of our trip here
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in ireland it was a bit of a longer time to get back into the city then we did like a three and a half hour drive just then yeah but um just going to go drop off the car and then head into our hostel which we’ve actually booked for tonight in the city this was my 26 10 person dorm room honestly fine
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literally by the time we jumped to bed it was like 10 30 and just done done for the day so it did exactly what it needed to be cheap and in the center of the city welcome back to dublin airport everybody let’s go all righty guys we’ve just landed here in london i hope you enjoyed that island
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series i feel like there’s so much more to explore you guys need to let us know what we need to visit on our second visit because i think that honestly needs to happen but yeah we really enjoyed our time there if you’re new around here make sure you hit subscribe give the video a thumbs up
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and uh we hope you come and explore england with us see you guys next time that i’ve wanted to do ever since i saw this viral facebook video and i was like steve we have to do that unless you saw it and then i booked the tickets and i was like steve we’re doing it and it’s
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pretty much a harry potter pop-up bar well harry potter themed pop-up bar we’re doing a potions class teeth we’re aren’t we
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