About this episode

The episode explores a serendipitous journey that begins with a taxi ride in Dublin.

On a wet rainy night in Dublin musician and writer Joe Philpott and his family step into a taxi....The driver asks where they're from..."Ballincollig!" The reply. He says "I knew a girl from Ballincollig..." and what follows is a wonderful journey of serendipity that takes you to places no one expected or can really explain.... ...when they started Finding Erma. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Joe Philpott

Topics covered

• serendipity
• musician
• family journey
• Dublin
• Ballincollig

Keywords

• serendipity
• Dublin
• Ballincollig
• musician
• writer

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Dublin, Ballincollig

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