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  • Visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths

    Visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths

    Hi all,

    Today’s post is about our visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedbaths!

    If you are looking for Gort Cycle Trails, check out this link, with loops I have mapped in the Burren Lowlands.

    We drove out to NewTownLynch Pier in Kinvara on Saturday– instructions below. It was a most beautiful day!

    If you are familiar with Traught Beach, you’ll be heading the same way, until there is a fork, just before the Travellers’ rest.  Take the left fork and keep to your right, until you come to a bend. Take the (small) road to the right, that brings you to the Pier.

    Picture of people sitting in a whiskey barrel

     

    Tell me more about WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths

    It’s a mobile business that sets up around the Western SeaBoard, check out the WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths website here. They use Whiskey barrels also referred to as baths and fill them with lovely heated Ocean water, seaweed is added. A real treat to your skin and your mind!

    How to arrange WildatlanticSeaWeedBaths

    As this is a mobile business, you’ll have to join their email /text message service here or follow their social media pages here Facebook Instragram , where they advise where they are setting up next. Spots go every quickly – so once you get a notification, I  recommend you act fast to secure your spot!

    Okay, how much does a visit to the WildAltanticSeaWeedBaths cost?

    It’s 40 Euros for one person, to be paid online. If there is a second person, you can pay an additional 20 Euros cash. Yes, two people fit in the barrel. More info here 

    How long is the visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths?

    Each visit is 1 hour  – if the water in the whiskey barrel cools town, you can ask for a top up!

    What to bring for your visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths

    The day we visited, the weather was dry and wind still, so all we needed to bring was a towel and a swimsuit. A while back we also went for a visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedbaths. It was one hell of a windy, cold day.. some people obviously had done this before and had brought a dressing gown and a hat! So it all depends on the weather really:) 

    Would you recommend a visit to the WildAtlanticSeaWeedBaths

    Yes! Absolutely! It’s such a treat, overlooking beautiful scenery, immersed in hot water.. you really don’t want to leave. It would also make a great gift as it’s quite a unique experience! I am already planning our next trip!

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  • Homecoming Galway Seniors and the M17/M18 Cycle

    Homecoming Galway Seniors

    Well, well,  what I week, that’s all I can say! Unless you have been living under a rock( or maybe you live outside of Ireland and are not familiar with hurling), the all- Ireland Senior hurling championships took place last Sunday between Waterford and Galway and the Galway team won!!  

    It’s been 29 years since Galway won the  Liam MacCarthy cup , so there was plenty of reason for celebrations in and around Galway. A homecoming for the Galway Seniors was organized, starting at Pearse Stadium in Galway City, then onto Clarinbridge, Loughrea and a final stop at St-Thomas’s pitch. St-Thomas’s GAA club is the home club of David Burke ( the captain), so it really was a homecoming.

    As St-Thomas is so near to where I live, I went over to go and take a look. As you can see, I wasn’t alone! There was an amazing atmosphere, lot’s of people cheering and singing! When David Burke did his speech, you could hear a needle drop – to hear his speech go to 23 minutes into the video.

     

    It was one of the first times I experimented with a Facebook live event on my page workinglivingtravellinginireland, and 150 tuned into the video. Very quickly the video had a reach of 2000 people. At this point in time it has been viewed by well over 7000 people and has had a reach of 16000. It really is amazing what you can do with a mobile phone!

    The Great Western Motorway cycle on the M17/M18

    Today was also the Great Western Motorway cycle, offering cyclists a one-off opportunity to cycle the soon-to-be-opened M17/M18 Motorway that will connect Gort to Tuam. I was here in 2010 when the Gort to Crusheen bypass opened. At the time I was working in Shannon, which took about an hour on a very windy road and dangerous bends( I am sure some of you will remember the very dangerous bend at Crusheen). After the opening, this journey became significantly easier and shorter, getting me to Shannon in less than 45 minutes. By 2015, Directroute started works on the long awaited Gort to Tuam Motorway with an expected finish date of early 2018. The new motorway is just over 50 kilometers long, and will offer much needed traffic congestion relief for travellers, bypassing the main bottleneck of Clarinbridge in South Galway and Claregalway in North Galway to get to Galway city and also connecting with the M6 to Dublin. Here is map of the new motorway.

    Image of the Gort to Tuam Motorway from the http://www.directroutegorttotuam.ie website

    It’s been very exciting to see the works progress, new bridges being built and watching some YouTube video made me realize that this was not an easy job, with the vast amounts of limestone that needed to get blasted.  Here is just one of the videos I found on Youtube:

    The Motorway is due to open ahead of schedule on the 27th of September! We went over to the Gort side of the cycle and spoke with some cyclists and the ladies of the Gort Lions club. 

    It was very windy ( and relatively dry), I can’t say the same of the weather later in the day. 17 more days to go, and the Motorway will officially open!

    Blustery greetings from Galway,

    Katleen

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