Fantastically flanked by oodles of adorable, clownish puffins lining my path, I’d soon climb Skellig Michael’s perilous 618-step “stairway to heaven” to explore 1,400-year-old stone ...

Travel: I climbed the ‘stairway to heaven’ next to a Star Wars film set in Ireland The weeklong 'Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry' trek traverses stunning Emerald Isle landscapes ...

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The weeklong 'Hiking & Island Hopping: Cork & Kerry' trek traverses stunning Emerald Isle landscapes.

No blarney, the Force was with me. Or at least with Watson, a black Lab mix and crack dolphin spotter who, upon detecting dorsal fins, relentlessly barked while racing throughout our small fishing ...