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Travel with Rick Steves

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Saint Patrick's a Pretty Big Deal in the United States

St. Patrick's Day is a holy day in ireland, but it isn't the big drinking fest that it is in America and other countries. But his mountain is venerated by thousands of people every year on reek mountain sunday. People take off their shoes to climb this shaly, huge cairn at the top barefoot. This happens every year, and the same time.

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