John O'Ceallaigh

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110 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 18 Apr

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Brendan O'Connor · Holidays Of A Lifetime “If you’re dreaming about it, just go” · 18 Apr 2026 podcast

Yeah, but it's a very unsettling time for the city.

It just doesn't feel like itself at all when there's no one else actually visiting it.

Oh, yeah.

So one of the things I'm trying to do now is go to places I know nothing about.

So one of my other trips of the life, I was the same.

Someone asked me if I'd be interested in going and I had to get a map out to try and figure out where it was.

It's this tiny nation.

It's only 18,000 people.

They inhabit nine of 340 islands and it's somewhere between Hawaii and the Philippines all entirely by itself.

So basically nobody goes there whatsoever.

And I was able to do another cruise there last year, which was absolutely phenomenal, completely untouched and unblemished and kind of not eroded by any type of international influence at all.

So I think that's the ultimate aspiration for me now as well, going back to travel experiences that really connect you to a destination before it becomes very generic and influenced by what you see everywhere else around the world.

I have a Chinese friend who is telling me that he's very frustrated that everyone like me, like us, talks about going to Japan all the time and misses out on all the amazing things that China has suffered.

Because Japan is incredible, but it's very, very popular as a tourist destination now.

And if you try to go to Kyoto in summer, for example.

There's actually this kickback.

They're introducing a huge...

huge hotel tax.

It'll add significantly to future expenditure when people go there.

And it's just frustrating for people who are trying to live and can't access the city that they're a part of, you know.

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