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669 Maeve Higgins Loves You; Kinsale Ireland

Travel with Rick Steves

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What Is a Star Fort?

In mediaeval times, before columbus, there were no ships fer sailing west sothere was no traffic heading west. But then if you go forward, in the seventeenth century, canseil was described aslay in the road of the chiefest trade of all the world. And therefore we had fleets of english and dutch ships sailing right past our coast line. So we began to provision ships with basically oak barrels packed full of salted fish, beef, pork cheese and butter,. and enough beer to promise the crew a gallon of beer. Thats aya wine to day. Sounds about right, doesn't it? This is four 400 years ago, and we got

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