It was a sad morning today when I realized it was our last day in Ireland. This country has become my favorite of the four we’ve visited so far. It’s absolutely beautiful here! Today’s trip will take us to the countryside south of Ireland and it’s a sunny day! Our first stop today was Kilkenney and the castle there. KIlkenney is a small town located inland from the Irish Sea. It’s a quaint Irish village with lots of older shops...

Today has been the best day so far on this tour! We started the day with a city tour with our local guide Phil. She was amazing.....so funny and she had a lot of great history and information about the city of Dublin. We saw all the sites from the bus so it was a great way to do an orientation of the city.  After completing our city tour, it was off to Glendalough, which means Glen Between the Lakes. This was the site of an ancient monastery which was starte...

Not a whole lot to fill you in on today! This basically a travel day for us as we left Glasgow for Dublin. We were up at the crack of dawn to get on the bus to our ferry that would bring us across the Irish Sea to our next stop, Belfast. The ferry we took was a larger ferry that allowed the bus to be loaded on the lower deck along with other vehicles, buses and trucks. The upper deck where we were contained a little casino, a kids play area, food court and co...