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"What if your holiday involved milking, fencing and real food?"
There is something quietly brilliant about earning your keep with your hands. By day three you will know the difference between a Friesian and a Jersey, and you will have opinions about both. Fencing in the wind somewhere in Connacht, eating food you actually watched grow — it strips away the noise of everyday life in a way a sun holiday simply cannot. You find out you are more capable and more patient than you thought, and you sleep the kind of deep sleep that only honest tiredness brings.
Dara (35), Tralee — secondary school PE teacher, restores old road bikes on weekends
I signed up to WWOOF mostly because my sister dared me to, and I had a two-week gap in August that I couldn't fill cheaply.
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