We have seen the flicks, we have heard the stories, sometimes leaving our ordinary can make it seem extraordinary
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RENT A NEW LIFE
In The Bookshop, widow Florence Green, played by Emily Mortimer, opens a bookshop in a small coastal town in Suffolk.
Watch Julia Roberts in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love, in which she using her year off wisely to eat her way through Italy (above) pray her way through India and finally find love in Bali.
SMALL TOWN APPEAL
With a balcony overlooking Kinsale’s pretty marina, Anna Mulcahy’s luxury penthouse is just half an hour from Cork City.
Determined to enable her tenants to truly try on a new life for size, Anna will arrange a day’s work in Prim’s Bookshop (where you might encounter a hunky Hugh Grant type). Anna will also introduce you to the locals and show you how to bake soda bread. For details, see www.uniqueirishhomes.ie.
A LITERARY LIFE
Try out a life steeped in literary history at Lady Gregory’s lodge on the southern shores of Galway Bay. www.uniqueirishhomes.ie
PRACTICE FOR A PRINCESS
Built in 1805, this restored turreted castle in Tipperary is just one hour’s drive from Cork and Limerick. See www.uniqueirishhomes.ie.
