There's relaxing, and then there's an alpaca blanket. There's relaxing holidays, and then there's a weekend away on an Alpaca farm. That's how it works, right?
Well, the Alpaca farm bit is true, at least, because there's one listed on Airbnb right here in Ireland. At a time when, frankly, the staycation is looking about as close as any of us will get to a holiday this year, it's nice to know such amazing places exist right on our doorstep.
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The Hushabye Farm Alpaca Centre of Excellence - no, it's really called that, like a finishing school for furry camels - is located in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Co. Laois and they offer alpaca breeding, alpaca products and, of course, on-site self-catering accommodation where you can stay with the alpacas.
Their website reads: "These offer a great opportunity for you to engage with the Alpacas, see them interact with each other, feed them and take them for a walk. A unique holiday experience and a little oasis of calm in a world gone mad!!"
There's a cottage and a lodge to choose from, with commensurately strange listings.
"A beautifully renovated stone cottage on an idyllic Alpaca farm, in the foothill of the Slieve Bloom mountains," it starts, quite innocently.
"This 2 bedroom oasis has the romance of an old cottage, combined with a finish that will leave you wanting to stay for longer," it continues.
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"Tucked neatly away in the corner of an Alpaca Stud farm, the cottage has its own entrance and allows for total access to the adjacent paddock where the Alpacas and their cria roam freely."
A cria, since you're asking, is a baby alpaca. I had to google that too.
The other listing, named Jack Wright's Cabin, is described as offering the opportunity to "wake up to the 'hum' of our Alpacas as they ramble into view for their morning feed or watch the cria 'pronking' on the horizon of a summer's evening."
No, I don't know what 'pronking' is, and I'm not sullying my search history to find out. You'll have to guess.
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