Ireland - beautiful, friendly, and rainy
July 7th 2012 Twenty years ago, I spent a summer traveling through Europe with a Eurail pass. One of the highlights of that trip was the 10 days or so I spent in Ireland. Taking a ferry from northern France, I arrived in Cork and toured the island. The country was beautiful, but what stood out most in my mind was the friendliness of the people. In contrast with so much of Europe, people were genuinely friendly
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