Nicola Brady

and sort of skirting the coastline down, you can stop in Fota on the way.

And it's actually a gorgeous little station.

It's a really cutie, like historic looking one.

And then you can walk out, go to the wildlife park, go to Fota House.

And actually, if you walk from the station around to Fota House, you're sort of skirting the wildlife park.

So when I did that a couple of years ago, I could peek in and see the tigers getting fed and the lions.

So it was really cool.

And then the house is beautiful as well.

I would also say Middleton is a great spot.

Like the train, it's so well connected on the train.

So, I mean, you could do Cove and Photo in a full day and really make the most of that.

Go out to Spike Island, do the Titanic experience, all of that.

And again, going out to Middleton, doing the distillery, and then you can actually do a tasting without having to worry about driving back as well.

Oh, that's a good idea.

Is that feasible?

More so than you would think.

so and i did this last year so if you go to discover island have a brilliant section about car free travel um and i've just said it is brilliant and i did write some of them so it sounds like i'm uh tooting my own train horn but there's brilliant itineraries so skibbereen now it's a bus that you'd have to get from cork down uh but again it's a gorgeous route and then when you're there all of the local link connections are amazing

Like you can go out to Baltimore and then go to Cape Clear, hike out to the Beacon.

And it's a quick enough, if you're basing yourself in Skibbereen, there are all the kind of things you can do.

Now, yeah, the really remote beaches aren't going to be as accessible on one of the buses, but there's so much that is.