Ireland

Kinnagoe Bay along Wild Atlantic Way I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

The Cycling Heroines of the Wild Atlantic Way

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 6, 2014

“Do you want a wee drop of water of life in there?”, asked our host Brian at Culmore Cottage B&B, when we were about to take off on our very first day of riding along the Wild Atlantic Way. We should’ve said yes. And we should’ve followed all the advice we […]

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Derry – the Point of No Return

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth August 4, 2014

This is it. Derry or Londonderry, call it what you like, but for us there is no return now. The Wild Atlantic Way with its 2500 kilometers looms ahead, and despite the grey skies and drizzle that greeted us yesterday, it looks like our first day of biking might be […]

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Ireland According to Game of Thrones

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth April 15, 2014

What game? Thrones? Game of….what? Yeah. I didn’t know of Game of Thrones when we landed in the land of Game of Thrones, Northern Ireland and to be more exact, Country Antrim, last October. The fact that this was the setting for the extremely popular HBO series would’ve continued to […]

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Chasing Giants in Northern Ireland

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth December 2, 2013

We thought we came prepared, but our rain gear was sitting in the car as we lugged after John, our guide, whose voice we could hear some twenty meters behind him thanks to the new audio equipment the centre had installed. Balancing the tripod on the pram and tugging the eclectic […]

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Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

The Dark Hedges of Northern Ireland (and how to get there)

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 18, 2013

All I was hoping for was thick fog and bit of drizzle, but we got neither. The navigator was of no use as we drove on the small country lanes in Northern Ireland’s County Antrim looking for the signs for the golf course. I was keeping an eye on the […]

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Phoenix Park in Dublin I @SatuVW I Destination Unknown

For One Week Only – Living Like a Local in Dublin

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth November 4, 2013

I didn’t want to tell stories about Ireland and pass Dublin without a mention, but what’s there to tell? If you flipped through the images I took you could see a sunny day spent in the Phoenix park or us huddling under the trees at St Stephen’s Green in rain. […]

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Sligo, the (yet) Unknown Adventure Capital of Ireland

by Satu Vänskä-Westgarth October 28, 2013

How did we end up staying in Sligo for three nights when the plan was to pass-by with only a quick stop for some surfing? And how on earth this small town of twenty-something-thousand people and county with the same name, had become the adventure hub of Ireland and I […]

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