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...

I loved Spain, especially the Sangria & Tapas ! Places we visited include : * Crossing the Pyrenees Mountains - Madrid & the Plaza Mayor ; * Madrid - Puerto del Sol, Cibeles Fountain, Gran Via, Royal Palace of King Juan Carlos ; * optional tour to Toledo, my most favourite place I saw in Spain ; * Castilian Plain - Aragon - Morato Pass - River Ebro - Barcelona ; * Barcelona - Sagrada Familia, Chirstopher Columbus Monument, Les Rambles, Pueblo Espagnol, ...

This was the beginning of my first really long travel adventure, in which I took 9 weeks off work to do a Trafalgar Tour of Britain & Ireland, as well as an Insight Tour around Europe. Darren missed the first tour, but joined me for the European tour. I enjoyed travelling to so many different countries over a longer period of time than I had ever done before. There are so many places we visited on the tours, but let me start with the places I visited on the Briti...

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...

After setting off from London, with Darren joining me on the tour this time, our Insight Tour included a visit to many European countries over the next few weeks. Here's what we did in France : * Ferry from Dover in England to Calais in France - Eiffel Tower & River Seine in Paris ; * Paris - Champs Elysees & Arc De Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral, Darren & I left the tour for the afternoon & went to Euro Disney by train, Montmatre, Red Light District, tasting...