Maghery Beach | Sahara

Tell us about the places you love the most. Glencolumbkille is a really, really beautiful town, much bigger and probably more tourist-friendly. It has kind of a folk museum in it. It has beautiful beaches. There is one called the Silver Strand. You have to walk down a million steps carved into the side of the hill. When you get down there, there's an enormous horseshoe-shaped beach that is really, really beautiful. It's very simple. There's no beach club or anything like that. It's just very natural, an Atlantic beach with perfectly white sand and lots and lots of it. It is so beautiful because there is a cliff right behind you.

Then you get back in your car and keep driving? Yes. Another very nice town to drive to and look at and that is very pretty is called Ardara. It has another really spectacular beach, called Maghery Beach. I've never seen anything in the world that looks remotely like it. It's like being in the middle of the Sahara. There's so much sand you have to walk for about a mile just to get from the end of the grass to the water. There are caves on the edge of the shore that, if the tide is out, you can go into. They are really, really beautiful. Basically, it's not a big activity place. It's a place that, if you like it, what you like about it is that you can kind of read a book for three hours if you feel like it, or you can take a two-hour hike. You can go to the market and then try to figure out how to cook something that you haven't tried before. It's that kind of lifestyle.