Hi from Dubin, The first three days I was in Ireland there was no rain and blue skies, so my photos should turn out well ! Have driven 1100 miles in 4 days already, but having a day off driving today, in Dublin so going out today to try drinking all the Guiness that Temple Bar has to offer !!! The coastal drives have been fantastic and I keep stopping every half hour to take lovely scenic photos, which I will upload on this site when I am back home next week. T...

Here's the places I visited on the Ireland part of the Britain & Ireland Trafalgar Tour : * Dublin - Trinity College, St Patrick's Cathedral, Phoenix Park, Four Courts, drinking Guiness with the guys all afternoon, Burlington Cabaret ; * Boat cruise in Carrick-on-Shannon - 12th Century Boyle Abbey - Sligo ; * Donegal & shopping for a tweed suit ! - Bundoran Seaside Resort ; * Connemara - Kylemore Abbey - County Clare & Galway Bay - Ennis ; * Cliffs of M...

Immediately following our return from Belgium to Manchester Airport, Darren & I then headed to Dublin to spend Xmas Eve, Xmas Day & Boxing Day. We found Dublin quite dead actually, we were surprised that the pubs shut fairly early on Xmas Eve, as we thought we had come to the one place in the world where the pubs were bound to be open all night ! Turns out that religion takes precedence at this time of year, so we went back to the hotel and drank in the residents...