Waterford, Ireland: The Oldest City in Ireland - Rick Steves' Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

Watch the full episode: • South Ireland: Waterfo... Waterford is the main city of southeast Ireland, and claims to be the oldest city in the entire country. The Vikings landed here in 850 and established the town as base for piracy. More info about travel to Waterford: www.ricksteves.com/europe/ire... #ricksteves #ricksteveseurope #ireland
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[@lauramontague8235]

This is where my great grandmother grew up ! Waterford does look beautiful 😍

[@uzairiqbal738]

I was born and raised here and left sadly to come uk I miss waterford so much.

[@SA6703]

Rick, please upload full episodes of 25 minutes each again

[@savedfaves]

Saif Khan On my channel I organised a playlist of all of Rick’s longer videos. 114 of them, perhaps.

[@alanmartin1949]

Waterford City sold short again - 1 whole minute! Come Rick Steves, that is not up to your usual high standard! :-(

[@declanmurphy417]

its a plain grey work a day town the Knob head

[@lecutter9382]

Huh, just found out my family on me mum's side hails from Waterford. Apparently me great-great-grandad left in the early 1800s to come to Canada. He was a teacher who ended up teaching children in Newfoundland. So, hi to all my - unknown - relations there! I'll drop by one of these days and we'll have a pint or two and catch up. :P

[@iamkeko5490]

I recommed svalbard

[@davidsong9241]

すすめる理由を教えてくれますか

[@rumelsadventuresandfoodvlo2927]

Short and sweet
Thank you very much

[@declanmurphy417]

its a terrible review

[@jaythemachine3845]

Apparently my surname comes from Waterford or Kilkenny. It’s killing me not knowing which one I’m from. I want to visit my ancestors home so bad!. Waterford looks so beautiful.

[@farazmalik4196]

💓💓💓

[@MeowChiquitita]

To be scared for your safety/car etc in broad daylight here … this is hilarious

[@declanmurphy417]

its a plain grey work a day town Hanna the nob head must have had no pot

[@jwillisbarrie]

Thanks for having captions for the Deaf

[@olhemi1]

😎👍

[@AnthonyMcRedmond-Vg2ry]

Dubliners lived in Dubh linn centuries before the Norse arrived to found the little settlement of Waterford the oldest house found in Dublin predates the Norse by centuries and is Anglo Saxon descovered under copper alley Dublin 8 the old street in Dublin was found under stoneybatter D7 and is around two thousand years old Dublin is a much older city than the waterford with a much longer history Dublin had over 50 viking ruler kings in its history while waterford only had about 12

[@brianschmitz9759]

Isn’t Waterford one of the two city-counties of Ireland along with limerick

[@declanmurphy417]

Hey pothead hows it looking

[@Kevin_40]

I think vikings are treated unfairly... They were smarter and able to travel by boat, is it their fault they wanted to explore? Maybe when they landed in unknown places they were treated very badly by the natives (likely), and no choice but to fight back and reap the rewards. They weren't only smarter, but stronger too.

[@AmandaFromWisconsin]

Kevin C I think they also wanted farm land.

[@declanmurphy417]

this needs to be taken down because it is certainly not promotional

[@cing9545]

Not the oldest city. The oldest Viking city.

[@guillee112]

Waterford is the oldest city in Ireland

[@troberts235]

Frankly the myth that Waterford is "the oldest city in Ireland" needs to stop if one is interested in fact and truth.. Dublin, established by the Vikings in 841, is most definitely Ireland's oldest city. Dublin was the first permanent settlement established by the Vikings in Ireland and Waterford came much later, in 914 I believe. It's quite astonishing how this lie has been allowed to grow such mythical legs. On top of that, to suggest that Waterford supposedly became more important than Dublin for a time is highly questionable given that Dublin was one of the most most important viking towns/cities in western Europe.

[@declanmurphy417]

Waterford Irelands oldest city

[@troberts235]

@@declanmurphy417What can one say except you are obviously one of those who has bought into that myth.

[@declanmurphy417]

@@troberts235 its a fact

[@troberts235]

@@declanmurphy417 Now you're just being silly.

[@declanmurphy417]

@@troberts235 nope