Category Ireland

We leave this evening for Ireland. We will fly from Philadelphia to Dulbin overnight. We’ll join a Globus Tour in Dublin that will basically circle the coast of Southern Ireland ending back in Dublin again. Here’s a map of Ireland…

This will be short with some pictures since we had a very long day today. We flew overnight and landed in Dublin at 10:30 AM their time which was about 5:30 AM at home. We met our Globus representative and…

The day started bright and early this morning with breakfast at the hotel. We didn’t get a lot of sleep last night for a very good reason, we got a call in the middle of the night from Conrad saying…

We started off the morning with breakfast at the hotel and then headed towards Galway. As we drove we headed closer to the coast and in Ireland the Mountains are closest to the coast so the scenery was spectacular. Bay…

We took an all day trip today to the Aran Islands and it was a lot of fun and incredibly beautiful. We started with a ferry ride from Galway to the Aran island of Inishmore which is the larges of…

We left our hotel in Galway headed for a very long day. The weather was once again beautiful. It’s been sunny and low 70 degrees almost the entire time we’ve been here and it’s really an incredible stretch of weather…

The Strand hotel where we stayed was right on the Shannon river and there were beautiful flowers all along the bridges. These were right across from the hotel. Flowers in the river wall The river Shannon We boarded the bus…

The day on Thursday consisted of a long ride around the Ring of Kerry which is a peninsula which sticks out into the sea. The first stop was a tourist trap replica of a peat village. Peat is a fuel…

We left Killarney on Friday morning headed for Waterford but stopped at the Blarney Castle along the way. There was an hour and a half line for the castle and kissing the blarney stone so we decided to enjoy the…

Our final day was a trip from Waterford back to Dublin with a few stops along the way. We didn’t really get to see much of Waterford because we had scheduled excursions the whole time we were there. We quickly…