Home from Home, South Co. Galway, Ireland

12/06/2026

I love our Seaweed Baths 💚

Hugely honoured to see Wild Atlantic Seaweed Baths included in a recent National Geographic ( National Geographic ) article highlighting seaweed bathing in Ireland.

As anyone will know from growing up with National Geographic, the monthly print was one of the earliest ways of getting an introduction to the diversity of peoples and wonders of landscapes throughout the four corners of our world via their timeless journals and photographs.

When we embarked on our seaweed bath journey in 2018, one of the primary goals we set out and aspired to achieve and meet were the very high standards set by the likes of Kilcullens Seaweed Bathhouse in Enniscrone and VOYA Seaweed Baths at Strandhill and so it is also a huge honour to be mentioned alongside these industry leaders in Ireland in 2026.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-newest-wellness-trend-to-try-isirish-seaweed-bathing

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Highly recommended 💚

08/06/2026

Another way to Slow Travel between Ireland 🇮🇪 & France 🇫🇷 ⛴️

The Irish Sea just got a major upgrade.

A brand new ferry service has launched between Ireland and France, running six days per week. The route departs from Rosslare in County Wexford and arrives in Cherbourg, Normandy in just 18 hours. Passengers can bring their car, their bike, or just themselves and a carry on.

The vessel features private cabins, a cinema, multiple restaurants, and pet friendly areas. Night sailings let you sleep through the journey and wake up in France. Standard foot passenger fares start at €69 one way.

Operators confirmed the new schedule is live now with year round service. Summer 2026 bookings are already open.

This trip suits road trip lovers, pet owners who hate flying, and anyone who wants to arrive in France with their own car and no baggage fees.

Imagine waking up to a French sunrise, walking off the boat, and driving straight to a bakery for fresh croissants.

29/05/2026

Our beautiful Burren 💚

This landscape looks like it belongs on another planet. It is in County Clare.

The Burren — from the Irish Boireann, meaning rocky place — is one of the most extraordinary landscapes in Europe. A vast limestone plateau covering over 250 square kilometres of northwest Clare, its surface cracked and fissured into geometric pavements by fifteen thousand years of rain dissolving the rock from the inside out.

It looks barren. It is anything but.

The cracks between the limestone slabs — known as grikes — create a sheltered microclimate where plants that have no business growing in the same place somehow thrive together. Arctic alpine flowers grow beside Mediterranean species. Orchids push up through fissures in the rock. The Burren has more plant species per square kilometre than almost anywhere else in Ireland.

Beneath the surface the limestone is hollow — hundreds of kilometres of cave systems carved by underground rivers, including the Aillwee Cave system and the Doolin Cave which contains one of the longest stalactites in Europe.

The ancient Irish knew the Burren well. It is scattered with megalithic tombs, ring forts, and holy wells — five thousand years of human presence on a landscape that seems to resist human presence entirely.

Have you ever walked the Burren? 👇