Occasionally, my non-traveling friends are less than enthused (okay, bored) to hear that I am planning yet another trip to the Emerald Isle. Their response is often something like "What can you possibly need to see there that you haven't already seen?" As I have made more than a dozen trips there over the past several years, I suppose I can see their point. I return to Ireland time and time again, not just for the sights, which truly are spectacular, but for the sounds- the beat of the bodhran (Irish drum) in an impromptu pub session, the good morning moo from a neighboring field to my cow-view room in a B&B, the colorful lilt of the Irish brogue, along with the many other sensations such as a softness in the air that I have
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