The last time I was on the West Coast of Ireland, I experienced the air as so clean, so refreshingly sharp, so sweet, that I gulped. Inhaling as quickly and as deeply as I could, filling my otherwise polluted London lungs from the City with clean Atlantic air. This time was no different. Landing at Shannon Airport, County Clare, I recalled how much I enjoyed the quiet, friendly, no-fuss simplicity of it. The ease with which one disembarks the plane and simply emerges into the fresh Irish air. I was travelling with a friend, we collected our hire car and drove the 170kms from Shannon to Dingle, stopping at village pubs and picturesque stops along the way. By far the most exhilarating of these was Conor's Pass; a 1.5 thousand foot high pass that connects Dingle
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