Episode Three
Baz Ashmawy travels to Paris where he meets Ruth Algar from Westmeath, content creator Mandy Cherie from Donegal; and business owner Rebecca Devaney from Dublin.
Baz visits the suburbs of Paris to meet Ruth Algar, 70, who left Mullingar for France to work as an au pair when she was just 23. Ruth reminisces about her very successful athletics career in Ireland and then France. She is the only athlete to represent both Ireland and France at a senior level in sprinting.
Now, all these years later she has created a wonderful life in France where she has two grown up daughters and grandchildren. Ruth introduces Baz to one of her daughters who is a well known actress and comedian in France, and she recounts to him her summers as a child in Mullingar. Baz also has the pleasure of meeting Ruth’s two very young grandchildren and enjoying a kick around with young Ernest who gets one up on Baz.
In central Paris with the Eiffel Tower as their backdrop Baz and 26-year-old Donegal native, content creator Mandy Cherie strike a pose, and a little off the beaten tourist track Baz meets, 40-year-old, former haute couture embroiderer Rebecca Devaney who runs Textile Tours of Paris. Rebecca brings Baz on a tour of St Ouen Flea Market, where he gets to grips with Parisian style.
Series Overview
In the second instalment of this popular series for RTÉ One, Baz Ashmawy returns, bag packed and passport in hand, to hit the road to meet Irish people who have left Ireland behind to set up home somewhere else in the world.
Over the six episodes Baz meets a variety of Irish people who have settled abroad and finds out about their adopted home when it comes to how they live, work and play.
Across the series, Baz visits Belgium, Portugal, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and Cyprus. In each country he spends time with a host of Irish expats, learning about their new lives and country, finding out why, for them, it’s The Best Place To Be.
