More To Life – Living the best life in County Mayo.
Last month, The Western Development Commission launched a video campaign to showcase the career and lifestyle opportunities available in the West of Ireland.
Today the Commission has released a second video (above) to further lure people out of the cities.
Alan Mulrooney writes:
The video features Nathalie Moyano who moved to Foxford, Co Mayo from Dublin in March this year and is now enjoying the fruits of working remotely with a more relaxed pace of life.
Born in France, Nathalie moved to Ireland in 2002 and spent years commuting from Wicklow to the city centre. She moved to Co Mayo on the first day of lockdown and found herself surrounded by woodlands, beautiful riverside walks and stunning gardens at a time when many people were confined to city apartments with no access to open spaces
In fairness.
Western Development Commission
Did they get the bloke straight out central casting to make the hipsters in Dublin feel better?
can we check back in with Nathalie after she’s spent a winter there ?
I did
it’s a lot less idyllic
Nathilie’s second name is an anagram of No Mayo.
Ooops.
…that looks like Pontoon Bridge…’where the Moy changes it’s mind, twixt Conn and Cullen, Cullen and Conn’…
lovely, bisted
Yes, bisted, that’s taken by Pontoon Bridge.
Co Mayo is beautiful but it does have the highest level of rainfall in Ireland most years and, contrary to what the video shows, masks DO have to be worn in shops, unfortunately. During the lockdown, many of us here only had access to a few bits of road and no amenities at all. All the lakes, etc, were outside the travelling distance and there was no public access to the fields and forests within range. I’m surprised that Nathalie had access to so many places ‘at a time when many people were confined to city apartments with no access to open spaces’.
Mind you, I am just trying to keep people away because the best things about Mayo are the peace and quiet and small numbers of people!
no sign of sam?
He prefers the city life!