My guest today is the writer- explorer, finder of beautiful places, maker of delicious foods, and so much more Rosanna Purcell.

This is a woman who has lived two extraordinary lives and overcome one of the worst imaginable illnesses in the process.

I absolutely loved this chat and I know you will too. Thanks to

Roz and her people for setting it up and making it possible. Welcome aboard to our new listeners

and subscribers. I am of course out on tour with the Your Man show. I am coming to a town or

theatre near you across the winter and New Year.

It's such a fun show.

We've had so many great nights so far.

Roz, of course, has a book out at the moment, The Hike Life, my 50 favourite hikes in Ireland.

It's a hell of a re.

She finds 50 of these hikes all around Irelandnden from Dunie Goal to Kill Cash.

Each hike includes levels of difficulty, all the details you'll need to go about doing the trail

and where to get the best views, the all-important views for the best food stops along the way,

of course, the beaches, that's everything for me. Rosanna also shares practical tips in it for the outdoors and layering

up and what to pack. All the precautions you need to take, the apps, the websites. Everything you need

to know is in the hike life, my favourite hikes in Ireland by Rosanna Purcell. It's out now

wherever you get your books. For now, sit back and relax and enjoy this chat.

As personal, I have been accused so many times,

and this podcast has been accused so many times

of causing more homesickness than anything ever produced on the internet. But I think you are rivaling this

podcast with some of this stuff that you put out on social media, which, honest to God, I have found

triggering anything that you should come with a health warning when I lived away for 10 years.

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