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10 amazing destinations on the Wild Atlantic Way
Ireland’s Blue Book has superb hotels and country houses stretching from Donegal to West Cork to discover this summer season
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With 2,500km of spectacular coastline, there’s a lot on offer along the Wild Atlantic Way. Photograph: Getty Images
With blue seas and crashing waves on one side, and green fields and gourmet pitstops on the other, it’s no wonder the Wild Atlantic Way so quickly established itself internationally as one of the world’s iconic touring routes.
Relish Food & Wine Festival is back for 2021.
Fraser Coast Tourism & Events confirmed that after a covid-forced hiatus last year, there was a sense of excitement around the festival and chance to experience updated new trends, recipes and blends.
Held in the Mary River Parklands on Saturday, June, 5 festivalgoers are encouraged to indulge in food and beverage matching sessions, listen to leading foodies as they share the fruits of their labour, and learn from talented chefs who ensure the unmistakeable stamp of the region in every dish.
Along with amazing food and wine, attendees will be transported back to old Maryborough with lessons on high tea etiquette from Miss Etiquette, unforgettable stories of Bond Store’s past (heard while sipping a tipple of port) and behind the scenes access with Odyssey Bistro’s team, revealing the stories behind their food and drinks.
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Woods founder Jeremy Earl and psych-folk veteran Glenn Donaldson team for an effortlessly warm debut that feels alive with a sense of mutual discovery.
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Even in the inchoate early days of Woods, the sweet coo of founder Jeremy Earl turned his most elliptical lines into ready hooks. But like the collectives Elephant 6 or Lambchop a decade earlier, the amorphous band around Earl treated songs like playhouses, spaces where they might try anything. Harmonies spilled out through a mess of tape hiss; guitar solos curled like question marks. This casual idiosyncrasy was charming, a timely counter to indie rockâs burgeoning professionalism. In the decade since, however, Woods co-founder Jarvis Taveniere has become an adroit producer, and Earl has built a homespun empire of like minds through Woodsist. The stakes now
Cassandra Jenkins is stomping through a foot and a half of snow in Central Park, looking for what she calls the âperfect plop-portunity.â Plopping is, for the unfamiliar, a form of therapy Jenkins has invented that involves throwing yourself into a particularly inviting swath of snow to cool off mid-walk. Once she finds a satisfactory clearing, she falls to the ground, like a tree cut down at its base. She makes the frigid act look fun, and I canât help but join her. We stay plopped in the snow for a half hour, looking up at spindly branches that are supporting tiny birds and a squirrel doing nonstop somersaults.
Filled with people, stories, and dialogue, the New York songwriter’s second album flows like an emotional breakthrough, tying together disparate observations into a serene and unified vision.