Here is my usual weekly blogpost with ideas of things to do in Leeds, Bradford, Scotland and Ireland:
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Win a
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Awesome New Openings in Leeds in 2021
2021 was a bumper year
for new additions. Dozens of new bars, restaurants, shops, cafes and
salons opened in Leeds. From cool kebabs to vintage threads and
taprooms pouring out the amber nectar, there was something new every
week. How many of these did you get to?
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10
Hidden Treasures in Leeds Worth Seeking Out
Down alleyways, hidden
behind buildings, tucked away from sight, these are some of the hidden
gems that make Leeds such a fascinating place to live. Get ready to hunt
out basement bars, bold bookshops and historic clocks.
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The clock is ticking... it's your last chance to
catch the Ice Cube @ Christmas!
In the countdown to Christmas, get together with
friends and family for a seasonal day out in the heart of Leeds
City Centre. Get festive and head to Millennium Square to
experience the magic of outdoor ice skating - plus, festive
street food and drink, a giant Igloo Bar and winter-themed rides
and attractions.
Pre-book your tickets now to avoid disappointment.
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Soak up all the festivities by exploring the rest of
what the city has to offer this Christmas. Just a short walk away
from Millennium Square lies...
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Enjoy a festive tipple in the Viking-inspired
pop-up tipi bar
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Take in breath-taking views of Leeds on the
Wheel of Light
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Take
a ride on the dazzling traditional carousel
Open
until Saturday 1 January 2022
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In-line with the latest Government update and the
interests of protecting the safety and welfare of both
customers and staff, we are operating
with COVID-19 safety measures in place and ask
that all visitors make themselves aware of what is expected ahead
of visiting.
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Millennium Square
Calverley Street
Leeds, LS1 1UR
Box Office | 0113 376 0318
millsqleeds.com/icecube
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© 2021 Leeds
City Council
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This
year, we returned to the Leeds Grand
Theatre stage after an absence of 581
days with our ★★★★ new
production of Carmen,
staged 33 spectacular events in
our newly refurbished Howard
Assembly Room,
entertained audiences from home with
one-to-one performances over Zoom, and
brought together over 2,300 people from
around the world to sing together with
our ever-popular From Couch to
Chorus...
Your
support has allowed us to continue
creating extraordinary experiences
every day, for everyone, during this
challenging time. As a thank you, we'd
like to give you a digital gift that'll
make the hairs on the back of your neck
stand up! We performed Ravel's magical
orchestration of Mussorgsky's Pictures at
an Exhibition as
part of the Kirklees
Concert Season and
recorded two movements especially for
you...
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Holiday
must-sees & last-minute gift
ideas...
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Staying in?
Get
your Opera North fix over the holidays
from the comfort of your own home.
Whisk the family away on a magical
adventure with our free whistle stop
tour of Cinderella.
Plus,
there's more to enjoy over on our
streaming platform: discover an
intimate recording of Gluck's Orfeo ed
Euridice or
watch our ★★★★★
concert performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
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Searching for a
special gift?
We've
got you covered, with options to suit
all budgets! Treat the opera lover in
your life to a gift voucher so they can
enjoy a production of their choice.
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For a
unique personal gift, add a name or a
message to a note in our Making Music
installation, which will sit at the
heart of our building for years to
come.
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Music is Everywhere
From
world-class opera, to online singing
classes, and creative workshops for all
ages, music brings people together,
provides entertainment and escapism and
plays a crucial role in supporting our
physical and mental well-being. Your
support helps us use music to bring
people together this festive season.
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Opera North Ltd.
Howard Opera Centre
8 Harrison Street
Leeds
LS1 6PA
Box Office: 0113 223 3600
Registered Charity No.
511726
© Opera North 2021
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Two of Us
and The Father among titles in new and expanded Leeds Film Player programme..
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Leeds
Film Player: Two of Us and The Father feature in new and expanded streaming
programme
Our
online streaming platform Leeds Film Player is now host to a hugely expanded
new line up! Its LIFF Selects programme of recent titles now available to
rent in the UK features many critically acclaimed films to have featured in
recent editions of LIFF, including Two of Us, The Lighthouse
and Sorry to Bother You.
Also
featured on Leeds Film Player is our newly launched Leeds Film Library,
featuring a diverse selection of favourites from throughout film history,
including Mulholland Drive, Do The Right Thing, Lost in Translation,
Moonrise Kingdom, Don't Look Now and Vertigo. Also
featured, just in time for Christmas, is seasonal classic It's a
Wonderful Life!
Use the
code LEEDSFILM25 for a 25% discount
on any
one film on Leeds Film Player until Weds 5 January
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LIFF 2022 Submissions now
open, INDIs Movie Nights: Gremlins Xmas Special,
Enjoy 30 days free MUBI & Christmas film events citywide...
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LIFF 2022: Film
festival dates announced & Submissions now open
Submissions are now
open for LIFF 2022.The Academy Award and BAFTA-qualifying festival will
take place from 2-17 November 2022. Presenting over 250 films from more
than 60 countries each year, LIFF is an epic celebration of global film
culture with a focus on supporting new talent. Welcoming submissions
into 11 categories, with 7 competitions and over £6000 in cash prizes,
the Early Bird deadline is 1 March.
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INDIs Movie Nights
Christmas Screening: Gremlins Double Bill
This Thursday, come
along to The INDIs’ festive double bill of classic comedy horror
creature features Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch!
Buy together and get tickets for both films for £5 using promo code
INDIsXmas. Gremlins begins at 6pm, but you can join us from 5.30pm to
enjoy some mince pies! Please note: Face coverings are mandatory unless
you are exempt.
Thu 16 December: Gremlins
(6pm - Tickets)
& Gremlins 2 (8.15pm - Tickets).
Carriageworks Theatre, Millennium Square
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Enjoy 30 Days Free
MUBI
Our fine friends at
MUBI are giving you an amazing 30 day free subscription. Enjoy cult
classics, award-winning masterpieces, forgotten gems and festival-fresh
cinema from the comfort of home. Every day MUBI hand-picks a new film
and you have a whole month to watch it. Current titles include
enchanting coming-of-age gem Gagarine, riveting conspiracy
thriller Azor and the fantastical, mind-melting rock opera
Annette.
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Christmas films at
Science and Media Museum: Die Hard on 70mm and more
Bradford's Science
and Media Museum presents a selection of Christmas classics throughout
December. Making terrific use of its Pictureville screen, there's a
70mm screening of action Christmas favourite Die Hard, and three screenings of
its new 4K digital restoration. Home Alone,
It's a Wonderful Life
and The Muppet Christmas
Carol also feature in the run up to Christmas.
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Hyde Park Picture
House Festive Classics: The Apartment
Deliriously funny
and with a brilliant cast including Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine,
Billy Wilder's 1960 classic The Apartment returns to the big
screen as this year's Friends of Hyde Park Picture House Christmas
screening, taking place at Left Bank Leeds. Wilder’s Oscar winning
comedy centres on an insurance clerk torn between professional ambition
and romantic idealism after letting his superiors use his apartment for
their affairs over the Christmas period.
Thu 23 December, 8pm.
Left Bank Leeds - Pay As You Feel
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C’mon C’mon: Joaquin
Phoenix on a transformational country road trip
Acclaimed
writer/director Mike Mills (Beginners, Twentieth Century Women)
returns with C’mon C’mon, a lively and tender
indie shot in stylish monochrome. The film boasts an unusually mellow
performance from the great Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny, a middle-aged
radio journalist who is thrown together on a cross country trip with
his young nephew (Woody Norman). A moving story about
cross-generational connections.
Weds 29 - Thu 30
December.
Science and Media Museum, Bradford
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LGBT+ Cinema: Lola
and the Sea
Laurent Micheli's
second feature Lola and the Sea explores the
complexities of grief, identity and family through the story of a young
trans woman at a pivotal moment in her life. Trans actress Mya Bollaers
makes her stunning debut as Lola, an 18-year-old trans woman. When her
supportive mother suddenly dies, Lola is forced to confront her
estranged father as they take a journey to the North Sea to scatter her
ashes – and try to see one another in a new light.
Sun 2 & Thu 6
January.
Hebden Bridge Picture House
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The Criterion
Collection Competition: Win December's releases on Blu-ray
Our exclusive
monthly competition gives you the chance to win one of two bundles of
the latest Blu-rays from The Criterion Collection. December's titles include
Menace II Society, One Night In Miami & Le
Samourai. To enter, answer the following question: For which
2018 film did One Night in Miami director Regina King win the Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress? Email answers to leeds.film@leeds.gov.uk
by midnight on Thursday 30 December 2021.
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Film Industry
Opportunities
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Volunteer at Independent
Directions Film Festival (the INDIs) 2022
Curated for an
audience of 16-30 year olds who are interested in a career in film or
are looking to further their film education,
Independent
Directions Film Festival (the INDIs) returns from 18-20 February. Venue
Assistants and Festival Runners are being invited to join their team of
passionate volunteers, giving you the chance to support the development
of emerging talent in the Film industry
Apply by
Sun 23 January, 8pm
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Leeds
Film is supported by the British Film Institute
Leeds
Film is proud to have achieved the BFI Diversity Standards
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Make the
most of the winter holidays
Brighten up the dark days with light experiments in
Wonderlab, challenge your friends and family in Games Lounge and
cosy up with the magic of the big screen at Pictureville.
We'll be open Monday–Sunday from 20 December,
excluding the 24, 25 and 26 December.
To visit, please book a free museum admission ticket
in advance.
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Wonderlab
Explore our most popular gallery with over 20
mind-bending experiments to get the whole family thinking
like a scientist.
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Games
Lounge
Play your way through gaming history in Games
Lounge. Tickets cost £2 per person and give you 25 minutes
of unlimited play.
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IMAX:
Spider-Man: No Way Home (12A)
Screening from 15 December
The Multiverse will be unleashed in the new
Marvel blockbuster. See it on the biggest screen in the
region, our IMAX, for a truly spectacular cinema
experience.
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IMAX
Short Documentaries
Screening daily
Travel to Antarctica, outer space and even
back to the prehistoric era with our 45-minute IMAX
documentaries. The perfect way to complete any visit to the
museum.
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Whether it's a present for a loved one or a
treat for yourself, our shop has a great range of toys,
books and memorabilia.
Can't visit us in person? You can still shop
online. Every purchase helps to support the museum.
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© National Science and Media Museum 2021
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, West
Yorkshire, BD1 1NQ (as part of the Science Museum Group) is an
exempt charity under the Second Schedule of the Charities Act of
1960 and is recognised as charitable by HM Revenue and Customs.
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Inspiration for the holiday season
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We’ve got lots to see and do this holiday period across all our museums
and online.
Seek out the themed Christmas tree at each of our museums, follow a
family trail, wrap up for a wintertime walk at the National Museum of
Flight or National Museum of Rural Life, or explore our current
exhibitions at the National Museum of Scotland.
And if you’re planning to spend some time at home, why not join our Museum Art Challenge.
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Museum Art Challenge
Until Sun 2 Jan 2022
Looking for something creative to do at home? Our online Museum Art
Challenge invites you to make art inspired by our collections. With a
different theme each week, you can take part from near or far simply by
emailing us a picture of your finished artwork.
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TAKE
PART
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Winter Trail
National Museum of Scotland
Follow our new family trail around the museum galleries to find
everything you need for the perfect winter celebration: a dazzling
outfit, music, games and more.
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DOWNLOAD
THE TRAIL
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Origami Dove Making
Fri 21–Sun 23 Jan 2022
National Museum of Scotland
Join a drop-in session at the museum to create your own
origami dove to be flown alongside 2,500 others in Les Colombes (The Doves).
This installation by Michael Pendry will be displayed in St.
Giles’ Cathedral as part of Burns&Beyond 2022.
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The University of Edinburgh Short Courses
From Thu 20
Jan 2022
National Museum of Scotland
We are delighted to welcome back The
University of Edinburgh Short Courses – a great way to discover our
collections and their history with experts. Explore Victorian Edinburgh, Georgian Scotland or Decorative Arts.
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Explore gallery
now open
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The Explore
gallery has reopened at the National Museum of Scotland. Test your
skills with family-friendly science interactives and check out key
objects, from a 20-tonne steam engine to a NASA space capsule and
everyone’s favourite sheep, Dolly.
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Exhibitions at the National Museum of
Scotland
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Extinction Bell
Until Sun 9 Jan 2022
Using a fire engine bell from our collection, adapted to toll 150–200
times each day, this work by artist Luke Jerram draws our attention to
biodiversity loss. By the time the display closes, the bell will have
rung up to 21,000 times, with each ring symbolising the extinction of a
species.
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The Typewriter Revolution
Until Sun 17 Apr 2022
Featuring highlights from our outstanding typewriter collection, from
weighty early machines to modern style icons, this free special
exhibition traces the typewriter’s social and technological influence
over more than 100 years.
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Audubon's Birds of America
Opens Sat 12 Feb 2022
Learn about the making of John James Audubon’s Birds of America,
one of the rarest books in the world, in this once-in-a-lifetime
exhibition. Exhibition tickets are now on sale,
along with tickets for a special in-person event with the
exhibition's curator and paper conservator.
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BOOK NOW
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Last-minute
gifts
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Despairing over your Christmas shopping
list? Our shops are open until Christmas Eve, giving you plenty of time
to browse our shelves and find the perfect present. You can even shop
online and collect from our Entrance Hall shop, until 22 December.
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CLICK AND
COLLECT
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Clyde's Winter Trail
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Until Sun 9 Jan 2022
National Museum of Rural Life
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Clyde the horse and his friends are
getting ready to celebrate the season by decorating their stable,
delivering presents and preparing a festive feast. See what miniature
scenes you can spot around the museum galleries in this family trail,
free with museum entry.
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Museum Trails
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Weekends only, until Thu 31 Mar 2022
National Museum of Flight
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Enjoy a family day out exploring the
museum’s home at East Fortune Airfield. Find out how engineers are
making air travel less damaging to the environment with our Flying
into the Future Trail, or follow our Second World War Trail
to learn how the site was used by the Royal Air Force. Free with museum
entry.
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RSPB Big Garden
Birdwatch
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Fri 28–Sun 30 Jan 2022
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The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch returns
28–30 January 2022. Whether you’re a birding beginner or a wildlife
expert, it’s fun, free and open to everyone. Register now and join in the
world’s largest wildlife survey.
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TAKE PART
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Our mailing address is:
National Museums Scotland
Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF
Copyright © 2021 National Museums Scotland, All rights reserved.
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Season's Greetings
Wishing you a festive break
From all of us at
VisitScotland, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year as we
welcome 2022.
Sit back, relax and
watch our award-winning video. Be mesmerised by the beauty of Scotland at
night.
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From Novels to the Big Screen
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Travelling through Ireland sometimes feels like visiting another
world. So fantastical is Ireland that it has inspired countless
stories, from folklore to fantasy novels and TV shows.
Game of Thrones has filmed countless scenes here, from castles to
caves to cliffs all over Northern Ireland. CS Lewis, author of
childhood classic The Chronicles of Narnia, grew up near Belfast with
the Causeway Coast and the Mourne Mountains his playground - and he
has said that he was inspired by all he saw to create the world of
Narnia. JRR Tolkien is said to have been inspired by visits to
Ireland, particularly the desolate lunar Burren landscape of County
Clare, while writing the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It’s said too
that the name for Gollum came from his visit to Pollnagollum cave,
which made a strange noise that resembles the character’s signature
sound.
Zipping into the world of scifi, Star Wars has commandeered the
Skellig Islands and rural parts of Kerry, Clare and Donegal to film
iconic Star Wars scenes (notably, Luke’s world’s-end hideout).
The island also has a rich quiltwork of folklore and mythology, from
warring giants to mermaids and selkies, humans turned to swans,
fairies from the other world, tragic lovers chased across the island
and battles fought over magical bulls.
Let Ireland inspire you….
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Welcome to
Westeros
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HBO’s
hit series Game of Thrones famously used dozens of sites of
Northern Ireland as its backdrop - and it’s not hard to see why.
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Through the
Wardrobe to Narnia
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Remember
reading The Chronicles of Narnia as a child? No need to climb
through wardrobes to reach Narnia - C.S. Lewis was inspired by
Ireland to create his magical land.
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A Galaxy Far, Far
Away
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If
you’ve seen recent Star Wars films, you’ve seen the Skelligs. These
iconic islands and other corners of Ireland for Luke Skywalker’s
hideaway.
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Irish Folklore
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From
giants to witches and swans to selkies, take a look at our series
on Irish folklore. Tune in for upcoming articles.
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Book with
Confidence
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Copyright © 2019 Wilderness Ireland,
All rights reserved.
Wilderness Ireland, Unit 8A 1/2, Northwest Business Park, Collooney,
Co. Sligo, Ireland
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Ireland
has some of the most fascinating characters in the world. From
storytellers to oyster farmers, wilderness guides to cheesemakers,
chefs and goat herders, we’d like to introduce you to some of
Ireland’s cheery locals that we’re so famous for.
So, stick on the kettle, pour yourself a cosy cup of tea, settle down
with a few biscuits and get ready to be transported to Ireland’s
rural communities, rugged coastlines, emerald hills and pretty
islands.
We're also sharing our Essential Guide to Hiking in Ireland, for you
to download and read at your leisure.
Is mise le meas,
Louise
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Essential Guide
to Ireland: Hiking
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From
the truth about leprechauns (they are real, right?) to Ireland’s
annual rainfall and how many pints of Guinness are produced every
day, to our guides to Ireland’s very best hikes and Hiking in
Ireland 101, take a look at our essential guide here to see how you
can experience the true spirit of Ireland.
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Insider's Ireland Video Series
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Book with
Confidence
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Copyright © 2019 Wilderness Ireland,
All rights reserved.
Wilderness Ireland, Unit 8A 1/2, Northwest Business Park, Collooney,
Co. Sligo, Ireland
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