Island Hopping with a Brompton - Connemara, Ireland 

Thanks so much for such kind words!! It's lovely to hear you enjoyed watching it 😊 I certainly enjoyed the overall trip, wonderful places to visit and always a joy to find these great places to spend the night in my tent!! Thanks again 😎

Hi Derek! Thanks for letting me know you enjoy these little videos 🤗 Wonderful to hear you’re familiar with the area too - such nice spots and a pleasure to cycle in with that gorgeous weather!! I hope you get back there soon….and I hope I do too 😉 Thanks again!!

Thanks very much for watching the video 😊

Thanks very much! Very glad you enjoyed it 😊

Thanks Seamus - such a lovely trip, I loved it!! Great to hear that you enjoyed watching it, thanks for letting me know! 🤩

New areas for me too Anthony and such a great way to see them - and with fab weather it was pretty special. Thanks so much!! 😊

Congrats on your Brompton David and may you have lots of wonderful adventures with it! 🤗 Thanks so much for watching this video and your lovely message! It’s a bit of fun and nice to have a record of some lovely trips and even better that anyone else might enjoy them too!! 😎

Thanks for letting me come along on your adventure. I have a “Bike Friday” folding bike that that I’ve yet to do any tour with. You are encouraging me:). Alan

Hi Alan - I just checked out the ‘Bike Friday’ folder, it looks great! I hope you go for it 🤞 Thanks for your message!!

Ha, thanks Stu! Such a lovely trip - blessed with the weather and locations on this one, I had a ball! 🤗 For those drone shots when I’m in the bike, there are a number of pre-programmed shots where all I have to do is set the drone up, press a button and then it will fly in the direction it’s programmed to move in. I’m not actually controlling it but I’m hoping it’s doing it’s thing and that it won’t crash while doing it. It makes it look like I know what I’m doing but really I’m just winging it and hoping it’ll survive 🫣 Living on my nerves…

Thanks very much!! 🤗 Best of luck for your own upcoming trip - the longer and brighter days are upon us!! Cheers for your support 🤩

Well worth a visit 😊

Thank you! Great to hear you enjoyed seeing this video 😊

Thank you Sharriff - the nice weather really shows the area off so well. A very special trip 😎

Wow! That’s lovely of you to say 😊 Sitting in a hospital waiting room and your message has prompted me to watch this video again (with my earphones on!)…such a great trip!!

You’re very welcome Marco Tim! 😊 Great to hear you enjoyed it - nice to be reminded of this lovely trip…gets me excited for some more adventures with the camera again!! Take good care 😎

Hi John - thank you very much for watching this video and for your lovely message! Such a lovely part of the country, it was such a great trip to do - I loved it!! 😊

Wonderful to have had such great weather for this trip! It helps so much to show an area off with the camera, it makes it all very easy and makes it look like I know what I’m doing…believe me, I don’t 🤗

Thanks John! Yep - it’s a mad world alright…great to have the opportunity to play and enjoy this mad world every now and again 😉 Glad you enjoyed the sights - lovely to hear! Have a good one today 👍

Thanks so much for watching Laurent and your message! 🙏

@@IainW10 Hi Iain - thank you!! It certainly sounds like the area has left its mark ‘in’ you! I so enjoyed exploring this area that I’d always bypassed in going someplace else. Such beauty, wildness and solitude - I loved it! You’ve reminded me of my own memories from my brief trip around this area and how it moved me also. A very special part of the country. I hope you get to revisit the area and get to experience how it is for you again! Many thanks!!

Absolutely Derek - so much to keep me entertained anyway in our hills and quiet spots! I’ll never be bored 😊

Hi to New Jersey!! Great that you enjoyed the landscape and scenery over here, that’s pretty cool to hear!! Thanks so much 🤗

Thank you Jullie - great to hear you enjoyed this!!

Thanks very much Mark!! A wonderful little trip - so nice to be able to have that experience and one I’ll treasure. ‘Biker Trash Style’ - love it 😎 I will greet a cemetery with a new fondness and appreciation - I always enjoyed them, but they’ve now exceeded their former appeal! It had been so long since I was in water Mark, it was so great to do!! Thanks for your message Mark, hope all is well with you!

@@MiriamKennedy A pleasure always Miriam. Such a great ride out. Yeah, cemetery's are cool. Me? Getting on - dealing some things but OK. Peace!

Take good care 😉

@@MiriamKennedy Will do Miriam.

Thanks very much Jef! It was a great little trip and wonderful places to visit - the lovely weather definitely shows the place off well too 😉 Thanks very much for watching and your message, much appreciated!!

Thank you Scott! That's lovely to hear that the video inspired you in any way 😊 Your plan after your move to Dublin sounds great, wahhoooooo!! So much opportunity for hiking, cycling and fabulous wild camping. I hope you truly enjoy it!! I've done my own fair share of racing around the place (usually in a car) and seeing nothing so I know what you mean. My little wheels and 3 gears force me to be slower which helps, I'm not trying to get anywhere too quickly on these trips. Having any plans can mean I miss so much of the landscape - its a fine line to have something to aim for and going with the flow. Very nice to hear from you!

Thanks so much Miriam, that’s very kind of you. The hiking and biking there seems to have endless possibilities, the way my trip diary is panning out I’m honestly not sure I’ll have time for even for the little work I do. Slow travelling certainly makes for experiences, taking that time to shoot videos or take photos around every corner is almost impossible to resist. I’m jotting down some of your little routes that take you off the beaten path, I think they’ll very useful for when I’m planning trips to the area. And camping on the Cliffs of Moher in winter… that’s hardcore! Thanks again!

Happy planning and dreaming Scott 🤗

Cheers Joe! A stunning part of the country as you know 😊 Throw in some good weather and its a good recipe for a trip away with the tent and camera. Yeah - I'd never cycled as much but its pretty flat in fairness. A few times I had to hop off the bike on a hill, but my little wheels and 3 gears put up a good performance in fairness 😎 Thanks for your message, I appreciate it!

Thanks very much Gianni 😉 Great to hear you watched and enjoyed this little trip! The drone definitely helps to show the landscape off so well and I see you’ve taken like a duck to water with your new drone too - editing can make it look like we know what we’re doing! Thanks again 😎

@@MiriamKennedy Well, you are much better at flying it. I had hardly learnt to take off and land it before I left for Turkey so my main concern was to be able to bring it back safely. I succeeded! You do get amazing footage with them even though, as you probably well know..., you spend hours to get a few seconds. Still good fun and very much worth it unless one is tight on time.

I've no particular skill at all, still just chancing my arm! I've lost 2 already which has actually eased my overall tension and helps me ride out that adrenalin and nerves that come with the territory! Like you - I'm so relieved to have it in my bag coming home 😉

@@rsb62rsb that’s great to hear that you’ve been to this area! 😊 Such a great place to spend some time..you brought back some nice memories to me thinking about this trip! 😎 Thanks for watching this and for your message 🙏

Hi Natural Flow - thanks for your lovely message! Sorry to hear about your mental health struggles and great to hear you are noticing that you are returning to some things that once were difficult with some ease. Heading off with my tent has always provided me with a little gateway to a very special place within myself where I feel very content - nothing else in life has ever come close to that feeling so I just keep doing it! 😊 I feel very grateful to have found it and long may the rewards continue! I started making videos as a reminder to myself of that feeling and it’s been great that other people enjoy them and then others have inspired me along the way in trying new things with the camera and speaking and visiting new places. I wish you every good wish today!! Life is a strange aul thing and so lovely when we find some peace along the way…thanks so much for your encouraging and uplifting message!! 😎

Cheers Niall! The great weather really made this trip for sure 👍 I don’t think I’ve any particular camp spot scouting abilities to be honest 😂 There seems to be no shortage of fab spots along our West Coast!! Lucky us 😎 Thanks for your message!

Thanks very much, yes it was a really great trip to do - delighted I got to do it in such nice weather. I’d say Denmark is looking pretty amazing in the Summer months! Thanks so much for your message 😎

Cheers Mark! A great little trip in the sunshine - Summer has definitely left us now 🫣

@@MiriamKennedy Yeah , It sure is, Though I'm looking forward to some winter camps 😁

Thanks so much for watching my adventure - very nice of you!! 😊

Thanks Lannaye 🤩 That’s very kind of you!! Wishing you the best across the water in the UK 😊

Thanks Andy - living a nice dream sometimes anyway, the mundane dream continues! Cheers for your message! 😉

Thank you!! The Brompton is certainly a great bike to cycle, especially in such lovely surroundings and with nice weather 😉

Thanks very much Colin for watching and your message! The unspoilt areas along this trip (specifically the three islands that I stayed and the other islands I cycled through) were so nice to be in. It reminded me that these are the trips I like to do. There are many other well known cycles in Ireland but it’s the places with great solitude that really appeal to me….my hunt will continue for more 😉 That sounded like a tough cycle home you completed in such high temperatures!! Your cemetery visit must have been relished - I so enjoyed my one on this trip, a welcome gift found on the side of the road! Wishing you well for your next cycling adventures Colin 😉

Thanks Raimo! A great little trip - yes, the hair washing routine was a success 👍😎 Thanks for watching and your message!

@@MiriamKennedy On the food side, I got mixed up with dehydration, liquefied, dried,rehydration, soaked, moistened and cooked, but it doesn't matter😄

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Thanks so much Jennifer! So nice to remember the gorgeous weather I had for this trip - the nice weather makes it very easy to capture the beauty around me 🤗 Not hard work as far as I remember - great to take my time and not have a definite plan of where I was going to each day, that definitely takes a lot of stress out of it for me! Thanks for the reminder of this lovely trip and for letting me know you enjoyed it 😊

Great!! Delighted you enjoyed it Derek 😊 Happy memories for me of this trip!

Thanks very much Michael - the nice weather shows the country off so well! Driving wind and rain on the bike would have been a very different experience no doubt. West Cork would be a great place to tour on a bike also. If your bike is coming maybe concentrate on Cork and Longford and then branch out on a subsequent trip!? You will have such great things to explore in those areas. I was just looking at maps earlier and beginning to contemplate a route for a trip with the bike and camera in Cork. Thanks so much for your lovely encouragement, I really do appreciate it 🤗 Hopefully some decent weather sticks around in Ireland and Scotland for the next while!!

Hi there! Thanks for your message 😊 It’s a very special part of the country and an area I hadn’t explored before this trip, the beautiful weather was such a treat to have. It definitely helped to be able to show the area off in such nice weather 😎 Great to hear that the video made you want to do it - that’s a compliment for sure!! Thanks again and hope you have a great Christmas 🎄

@@MiriamKennedy thank you Miriam, merry Christmas to you!

Thanks very much! It’s a very beautiful coastline to explore for sure 😊

Aww thanks Andrew that’s lovely of you to say! It was nice to try out some new things on the editing (while being cringy too!) I was off work this week so I was able to give the editing more time than I’d normally be prepared to give it. Cheers for your message 😊

Hi Jim - I do the same and have a top up of the west coast every now and again 😉 All good thanks - a few trips without the camera over the last while to keep me going. I’ve 2 ideas for trips with the camera that I feel ready to do now, so as soon as there are some blue skies for a few days I’ll go for it 🤞 I hope all is well with you!!

@@MiriamKennedy I've just seen this reply - the notifications not on. I love the track 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' it works so well, I don't often listen to music when I'm wandering in nature but this one is perfect! All good here Miriam , I'm out in the glorious sun today, stomping across the Sussex downs.

This weather is amazing 🤩 If it keeps up I might bring the camera out to play next weekend 😂 I loved that track too, so good! Enjoy your stomping!!

Thanks very much Tim! I was blessed with such glorious weather - it could have been so different if the weather gods weren’t working with me on this one 😉 So nice to hear about your visit in the 80’s - a lot of life lived since then for you all. Shame you hit the records for wet weather on that trip, how unlucky were you but as you said, fond memories remain 😊 Thanks so much for your message, I appreciate you taking the time to watch the video and say hello!!

Thanks very much!! Ireland is indeed very beautiful - it keeps me incredibly entertained 🙂 I hope you make it across on that ferry...although I know it can seem like a hassle to bother going abroad. I seem to have lost the foreign travel bug in recent years, still too much for me to see in my own backyard so to speak! Thanks for getting in touch, I really appreciate it 😎

Thanks very much! Wonderful to hear you enjoyed the video 😊

Thanks very much David! 😊

@@MiriamKennedy my pleasure 👍

Hi Barrie - thanks for your message! Great to hear you’ve visited Galway, such a nice city and I can understand your recognition that you could easily live there 🤗 No doubt you’re enjoying your folder, such a handy bike to own!! Thanks again!

Thank you so much for watching Yasmin!! Delighted you enjoyed it 🤗 Such a nice little trip - visited Tess along the way for tea and chats of course too 🫢

Cheers Gerry!! Some great spots for the tent for sure, unlimited possibilities it seemed as ever over on the West coast 😎 The cemetery shower was such a godsend - I’ll be looking out for those again and paying my respects whenever possible! The great weather was such a pleasure to cycle in, how different some driving rain would have been 🫢

Thanks Paul 🤗 That’s great to hear!!

@@MiriamKennedy :)

Thanks very much Karl!! A great little adventure - I loved it 😊 Thanks so much for letting me know you enjoyed it!! 😎

Awww - thank you, that’s lovely to hear!! 😊

Wonderful to hear Jonny! I meant to check back in with you to hear how it went for you, so thanks for letting me know you did it 🤗 The views on Friday must have been glorious up there - what a treat for your son and mother in law too! I agree about Galway and Connemara, so many great spots to explore. Thanks very much for subscribing to watch these videos too - that’s lovely to hear and makes me smile to think anyone enjoys watching them 🤗

Cheers!! Thanks so much 😊 Good aul Martin 👍😉 Nice to hear from you!!

Thanks very much for watching and letting me know you enjoyed it 😊 A lovely little trip away!

Thanks Kyra! 😊 Your bikepacking trip in Kerry sounds great! Hopefully the weather will be with you 🤞 For the meals, I’m using recipes and inspiration from these guys - thruhikers.co They prepare all their food in advance of really long hikes in the US - fascinating how they do it. They have videos of how they prepare their meals and the recipes they use. I’ve only used 2 of their recipes so far but I’ve the ingredients ready for a curried rice recipe now too. I dehydrated a couple of batches of ingredients and it has done me for numerous trips so far, it’s so handy to have so much food available that won’t go off. Great to hear you enjoyed the music on this one, all part of the fun and journey of it all! Have a great trip to Kerry 😎

@@MiriamKennedy that’s super thank u!

@@kpj5 I just noticed their website is down at the moment for some reason - if you type thruhikers into RU-vid you’ll see some of their foody videos. They’re a couple and their video are short and snappy!

Thanks so much!! And thank you for watching, the drone is capable of really showing an area off well 😊 Enjoy whatever adventure you get up to on your bike 🤗

Cheers Graeme!! I tried a few new things on this one and it worked out thankfully 😉 All a bit of fun…thanks for your encouragement though, it definitely spurs me on! Full Tilt was an amazing read and I was so impressed with what she did in such a nonchalant way 😎 Life is definitely for living - before I started my own little journey with wild camping and videos, I had the reality check of my older sister dying at 50 and I also had a breast cancer diagnosis. This all gave me my enthusiasm not to waste this one life and to make sure I’m living as I want to as much as I can. So I get what you’re doing completely!! So easy to live a small, safe and limited life - I can’t or won’t any more though 😎

@@MiriamKennedy that's EXACTLY the way to look at it. We get one life! I worked in an office for many years, and used to see people there saying how they were retiring in a year or 18 months and couldn't wait as they'd get this and that amount of pension from different accounts and investments and they'd be doing this that and the other. Then when they retired they were either too scared to do anything...or they snuffed it pretty soon afterwards! It made me wonder if it was all worth it! I'd rather have less money, just a base, roof over my head, and enough money to go backpacking or cycling with, on the cheap, for a few weeks or months🤷‍♂️. I still remember starting an office job 10 day's after leaving school and my mum and dad being thrilled to bits...'it's a job for life!' 🙄. I remember the thought scared me to death...a job for life... I'm 16 FFS! 😏 At 19 I packed in my 'job for life' and booked a one-way ticket to Tel Aviv, Israel, with a friend, to try and get a job on a kibbutz. My mate was 18 and neither of us had been out of the UK before! Mum and dad didn't speak to me for weeks! Lol!... but it worked out ok🙂

It sounds like it did alright 😊

Oh wow Rick! Wishing you the best for your upcoming adventure, I hope you have the time of your life and get to experience amazing sights and experiences along the way - in whatever form they come!! I’m just a novice and haven’t embarked on the types of longer trips that you like to do - with my hair washing dilemma out of the way, nothing can stop me now 😂 Have a great time and I look forward to seeing what unfolds for you along the way 🤗

Thanks Richella - I’d remembered what you’d said about water in graveyards recently! Such a great treat to be able to wash my hair easily - I’ve a little plastic nozzle that I can fit on to a bottle that acts like a shower head that I can use also, a game changer to be able to have the relief of clean hair! Yeah - a bit of a pain of a busy enough road to get out to some quiet spots. I was really underwhelmed with the section from Roundstone to Clifden through Ballyconneely, it made me realise I wouldn’t be interested in cycling the entire Wild Atlantic Way - I much prefer being on the quieter roads 😉

@@MiriamKennedy Yes it's a bad road for cycling or walking from Roundstone into Clifden. It's bad for tourists but for people living locally it must be tough having all of the additional traffic that the tourism season brings. In a few years time the Athlone-Galway Greenway and the Connemara Greenway will link up with Old Rail Trail and Royal Canal Greenway which means you'll be able to cycle from Dublin to Clifden entirely by Greenway. Bring it on!

Wow!! How amazing will that be 🤗

Thanks very much Maciej - that’s very nice of you to say! Great to hear you enjoyed the music too, it’s the magic ingredient that I like to use 😊 Great to have a little memory of this trip now with a video - lovely to hear you enjoyed it!!

Hi Andy - yes a lovely place to cycle! Thanks very much for watching and your message 😊

Thanks Damian - I remember you mentioned Finish island to me, unfortunately the tide didn’t allow me to visit it on this trip so I continued on to Mweenish. Really spectacular landscape to spend some time - I’ll look into Tim’s books, another guy mentioned that there was a TG4 documentary about him the other night that I’ll also try find. Great you got to Donegal for the good weather - another wonderful spot!! 😊 Thanks for your lovely message, I really appreciate it! Your ancestors come from spectacular places 😎

That’s something I’ve never been called before 😊 Thanks!!

Thanks very much Rizal - the drone definitely does a good job of showing the landscape off 😊 It's nice and light to carry also. Thanks very much for your message!

@@MiriamKennedy I enjoy watch your video really nice 👌 thanks for your reply. I will wait your next video.

Cheers Colin! Hard to better it for sure, especially with the nice weather…our coastal views on a moody day are usually fab too of course 😉 Cheers for your message, hope all well in foreign lands!

Hi Gregory - not one, but two Bromptons 😂😂 Nice to hear you enjoyed the music 👍 I usually hear some music in advance of going on a trip and get an idea of using it - that first piece was like that, I wasn’t sure if it would work out ok, but I think it worked! A lot of the time it’s actually the music that motivates me to try make a video of a trip. Cheers for your message and your kind words!! 😉

@@MiriamKennedy And I am also fascinated with the video perspective. The two Bromptons are for my wife and I.

I thought as much Gregory (well I hoped so anyway!!) - hope you are both having fun with them!

Thanks Lloydi - it was such an enjoyable little trip and the lovely Summer weather has definitely gone now unfortunately! Thanks a million for watching the video and your message - great to hear you enjoyed it 😊

Ah shucks!!

Brilliant!! 😎

Cheers Paul! So much solitude on these islands - my kind of place 😉 Thanks so much for watching and your message, lovely to hear you enjoyed it!

Hi - thanks for your message! The drone definitely helps show the landscape off, it’s a great toy to have 😉 I’ve never been to Finland - such beautiful landscape I’m sure. Hopefully some day I’ll get to see it. Thanks again for watching - lovely to hear you watched from Finland 😊

Cheers Phil!! It seems to be a pattern that I’ve found myself doing of making a little summary up front. My first videos were short as I had no interest in speaking and just used music - but I still like that style of trying to get some decent shots with some nice music. The music really helps in creating the mood - even for me while on the trip and then when straining it together. Delighted you enjoyed it!! 🤗

Thanks Tess 😊 A lovely little trip - fab locations and weather!! Great to have been fed and to have shared a chin wag with you at the start of the trip!! 😉

Oh wishing you the very best with your tiny garden conversion, that’ll be great! I kept stalling about the notion of getting a dehydrator and eventually took the plunge. I’m still working through the first batches of food I dehydrated. I’m out in my tent right now and had yet another dehydrated meal last night - I’ve still got quite a bit left. Not as nice as freshly cooked food but I’m very happy with mine. Not sure what the electricity charges will be like for my next batches into the future but I’ll see 🫢 The winter sleeping bag has made its first appearance this season and the sun has just come up to play this morning 😊 All the best!!

Hi to you Luesveis in Norway!! Thanks so much for watching the video, delighted to hear you enjoyed it 😊 A beautiful place to cycle in!

Cheers Brian, my hat is tipped back to you! Thanks so much for taking the time to watch this adventure - so nice to have anyone watch them 😊 It’s a beautiful part of the country yet again!!

Hi Martina! Thanks so much for your lovely message 😊 It was wonderful to spend time in such quiet places - when I had to travel on busier roads it was so disappointing. If you’re ever over here drop me a line and I’ll try catch up with you! I doubt I’d be into videoing, but certainly always open to meeting anyone who enjoys camping, cycling, hiking etc! 🤗 Thanks again!

Hi Brendan - delighted to hear you enjoyed this trip out to Connemara, as a Galway native it must spark some memories 😊 I hope you’re able to entice your NE gang over now, what a trip that would be 🤞 Yep, Camaderry and Glendalough still looking fab too - really nice to be able to show that area off, so much great hiking around there! Thanks so much for getting in touch - pretty magical to hear that you got to see these videos and that you’ve enjoyed them!! Wahooooooo 🤗 Happy planning for your next trip back to Ireland 😉

Thanks very much Gerry for watching!! It’s a beautiful place to cycle, especially on the quiet islands, so much solitude! 😊

That’s interesting John to hear about the documentary, I’ll try find it so that I can check it out! Thanks so much for watching this video - such a great spot to visit, I’ve been over to Connemara so often over the years and had no idea there was so much I had yet to see! Thanks again for your message 😊

Tim Robinson's trilogy of books on Connemara are fascinating. Well worth checking out on Amazon. Loads of used copies John.

@@damianmcdonagh7908 just ordered ‘Listening to the wind’ on bookdepository 😉

Cheers John 👍

Thanks Dick! A great spot for sure - Argyll must be very lovely too if it’s similar to Connemara 😊 Hope you’re enjoying the nice Summer over there!!

Thanks a million! When I’m bringing the camera I tend to wait for decent weather - I want to show the places off so some bright weather definitely makes it easier 😉 I gave that hairdressers a 5 star review on Tripadvisor - well worth a visit!! 😎

Hi Mark - lovely to read your message! Thanks so much for watching and letting me know you enjoyed the video. Great to read that you’re another Brompton user also 😎 We have the coolest bikes!! I hope you do make it over with your bike and of course that you get the weather to enjoy some of the wonderful places to cycle 🤞 I’m reading your message from the top of a mountain while sitting outside my tent drinking tea and eating biscuits 😉 No camera on this trip - a lovely little trip away with a book and plenty of fresh air to fill me up!! Thanks again 👍

Cheers Gerry - a nice spot to be out playing with the camera as you know! 😊

I went to Dunlewey church ruin to see if I could see your drone but it looks like the top of it was all restored and all was concreted

@@Murphyshiddenireland ah cheers Gerry, you’re very good! The church roof will be safe for the foreseeable anyway 😊 Thanks again!

Wahoooo! Sounds great Lincon - hope you go for it and that it doesn’t disappoint! Autumn is also pretty wonderful here, so no major rush 🤗 Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed the video, fab to hear! 👍

Hi Jason - yourself and Susanna were two people who inspired me on the dehydrated meals - it made a lot of sense to me to try it out, it took me a while to eventually take and plunge and go for it, but it’s been great so far. I made enough ingredients that has done me for the Summer. I’ve been following recipes from thruhikers.co - I really like what they’ve been doing with dehydrating food. I’m sure there’s loads of others I can check out too but their recipes have been working for me to date! This was a lovely area to spend time - I especially like areas that are off the beaten track as the roads are nice and quiet. I’ll just have to keep finding places off the beaten track to explore 😉 Cheers for your message Jason!!

Cheers Jimmy! Being a good planner has its merits, but god it can make things predictable!! That hairdressers was a miracle worker - a simple hose made my day 😂 I had been interested by the idea of a dehydrator for a good while before taking the plunge to get one - it made a whole lot of sense to me. I tend to cook the same food for ages when camping until I get sick of it and then I’m trying to find something else, I suppose it’ll be the same with the dehydrator but at least I can mix and match with lots of different meals. It’s a bit of trial and error to get the meals tasting as you like - but it means I have to do lots of camping until I get it right 👍🤗 Susan the cat was possibly relieved to have me back (no way would she show it though!) - she is a one person cat who never makes any effort to be grateful to her assigned feeders unfortunately! She runs out the cat flap and over the wall when anyone else is around 🤦‍♀️ I love her independence though 😉

Hi Paul - yes, you were right!! I had a great time on this one, lots of nice cycling in wonderful scenery and plenty of truly quiet places to enjoy it all! Thanks so much for watching the video, really lovely to hear you enjoyed it 😊

Thank you - great to hear you enjoyed it!! 😊

Cheers Robert! The West Coast seems to be filled with camping treasures throughout, there’s endless possibilities every time I go for it, amazing part of the country! I know you’re very familiar with that coastline - it took me a long time to eventually get there to discover it. Glad you enjoyed the recipes 😂 I wasn’t too sure if it took from the video or added to it - I suppose some will like to hear content that that and others will find it needless info. I’m a bit in the latter camp yet that’s how I got inspired to do it by seeing others show me what they were doing. I look forward to seeing what part of the country you’ll be showing off next 😉

Thats lovely to hear Martin!! 🤩

Thanks Eric - that’s great to hear! I have yet to be disappointed with any of the islands I’ve visited in Ireland, they always deliver on the camping spots 🤗 I hope you get to visit us over here at some stage 🤞 Nice to hear from you!

Thanks Peter! It’s a place I’ll visit again for sure too 😎 I loved the solitude and landscape of the islands, so nice to cycle in and spend some time…really lovely!

You’re right Alan!! Just looked and the last 5 videos I posted have had a Galway connection 😉 Time now to spread my wings a bit further afield! Thanks so much for watching this video and your message 👍 It’s a wonderful coastline for sure with lots of remote beautiful wild camping spots to soak in the beauty. That shower (aka hose) - was such a thrill! A welcome treat while out on the bike in the heat and away from my ensuite 😂 Great to be able to witness the various sunsets and sunrises that I got to see and to have a dip in the sea! Lovely to hear about bringing your Grandson brambling - not a term I heard before but I’m guessing it means foraging for some berry delights!! 🤗 Hope you’re keeping well!!

@@MiriamKennedy - haha, yes, we call picking blackberries 'going brambling' lol :o)

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Cheers Stuart 😊 Yep I really enjoyed spending the time on my little bike and tent in this area - not so sure I would have felt the same if it was lashing rain!! 😉 Great to hear from you 👍