Anselm_Weinberg wrote:I understand the sentiment, I sometimes feel the same about where I live haha, so many exciting places right around my corner that I'd discovered much too late. Btw, If I ever were to go to Ireland, visiting the Gaeltacht or whatever is left of it would be one my top priorities. Seeing a Celtic language and in particular both Gaelic and Irish spoken in real life is just something that has become so rare and I'd like to experience it once in my lifetime.
Great places are actually Wales, & up around the north of England. I'm talking Northumbria. Lancashire is just a mess. In fact you fly over England coming in over Liverpool through Manchester, through Sheffield, through Birmingham, through London, looking down, it's just a porno-environmental disaster. But strangely, if you push up past Lancashire to Cumbria, Northumberland, Durham, & the Scottish lowlands, it get's totally pretty & uninhabited. Wales is amazing too for forts.
But look, it's nothing that you don't have back home. It's on ALL OF OUR DOORSTEPS. If I were talking now from the Dordogne in France, it'd be the same.
On the other side of things, if you are planning to come over to this part, let me know, & I'll surely put you up - obviously late Spring, Summer or early Autumn is the best time for so many reasons. It's not an issue. I was down the river last night. I was wearing my spectacles which I seldom do, & I was observing a fort, a castle that was destroyed in the 1640's. I couldn't help but observe just how many arrow slits there were in the remaining castle ruins, this was clearly built not for comfort. I think that is why I posted the thing about history last night. I looked at the castle walls, & the band YOU introduced to me, just hit me so hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q4BrtuM5mU