![]() ![]() The owner of Coopershill told us his cousin down the road has a sheep farm and we could just stop by for a tour. ![]() Rae was really into the idea of meeting some sheep because we hadn’t petted any yet. 6 p.m.: Say hello to some sheep before a fish-and-soup dinner so we had tea, scones, and some lemon cake. We checked in right before tea time, which is from 4 to 6 p.m. After the tour, I was like, I actually need to go back to the other store and buy everything.Ĥ p.m.: Arrive at the bed-and-breakfast in time for teaĬoopershill House in Riverstown is this old estate house the owners converted into a fancy bed and breakfast. There’s one room where you’re waist-deep in wool and it’s coming down from a ceiling fan. It was amazing, like Willy Wonka’s factory but for yarn. She was like, “I don’t normally do this, but I can give you the gist of it.” We thought it would be a five-minute walk-through and then she came back with these neon safety jackets and we were like, Let’s go. This lady named Marie came out, so we asked for a tour. Then we went over to Donegal Yarns ( Main St., New Church Glebe), the actual yarn factory. As soon as I put it on, we all agreed it belonged to me. Then I saw this poncho and was like, Game changer. ![]() Rae was already buying half the store, but I was feeling unsure since I didn’t leave a lot of room in my suitcase. ![]() We drove to the tiny town of Kilcar and went first to Studio Donegal ( the Glebe Mill, Lower Main St., New Church Glebe), which has a little shop on the ground floor and people upstairs making blankets and sorting yarn. Noon: Take an impromptu tour of a yarn factory Just the fact that I could have unlimited beans for breakfast was so exciting to me. I had beans, two sausages, two tomatoes, and some mushrooms. There were pancakes like McDonald’s pancakes, the way they just look so perfect. This full Irish-breakfast buffet was one of my top meals of the trip. 1 sushi,” or “Ireland’s best Indian restaurant.” When we got to the hotel, they asked us, “What time do you guys want to do breakfast? Because we’ve been voted Ireland’s best breakfast.” And we really did hit the jackpot. After that, we migrated over to Abrakebabra ( multiple locations), this kebab chain they talk about on Bad Sisters, for a late-night falafel.Įverywhere in Ireland are signs saying “Voted the best in Ireland,” “Ireland’s No. There was this group of Irish lads, and one of them was so obviously drunk he couldn’t keep his eyes open - I even saw him talking on his phone, but you could see it was just his home screen - yet he still wasn’t spilling his Guinness. The bartenders do that cool thing where they let each pint sit for a second and then top it off. 8 p.m.: Drink a proper pint of GuinnessĪfter dinner, we went to Toners Pub ( 139 Baggot Street Lower), an old pub where I had my first real Irish Guinness. Our dinner at Hang Dai was also where my love of ciders began after I ordered a Stonewell Craft Cider. It’s ground beef and cheese inside a spring-roll wrapper. My body craves Asian food all the time however, my favorite thing here were the cheeseburger spring rolls. Lower, Saint Kevin’s), so that’s where we ended up on Saturday night. Our friend at Fish Shop also suggested we eat dinner at a Chinese place called Hang Dai ( 20 Camden St. In April, along with Dorian (her fiancé) and Rae (her friend), Liang set out to see some sheep, drink properly poured Guinness, and traverse her own ad hoc TV-location tour. Armed with Jackson’s advice as well as her own extensive research spread across many, many Safari tabs, Liang mapped out a weeklong itinerary for flying in and out of Dublin and driving up the Atlantic Coast. It was finally while watching Bad Sisters when I said to my fiancé, ‘This is all a sign that I need to go to Ireland.’” Luckily, Liang was already trading DMs with Derry Girls actress Saoirse-Monica Jackson and asked her where a first-timer should go. “And Normal People is such a powerful show. “With Derry Girls, I hadn’t laughed like that in such a long time,” Liang says. The second was Normal People, the Sally Rooney adaptation that - among other things - launched Paul Mescal, and the third was Bad Sisters, the macabre Apple TV+ show about a life-insurance and murder investigation. The first Irish television series that clothing designer Sandy Liang fell in love with was Derry Girls, the Netflix sitcom about five teenagers growing up during the Troubles. In this recurring series, we find those people who’ve done all the work for you and have them walk us through a particularly wonderful, especially well-thought-out vacation they took that you can actually steal. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Sandy LiangĮveryone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind –style spreadsheets to come up with the best vacations and itineraries possible. ![]()
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