First we drove to Kildare to visit the Irish National Stud and learnt a bit about race horse breeding. Famous 1993 Melbourne Cup winner Vintage Crop had been here but sadly had died only 10 days earlier. We also wandered through the acclaimed 100 year old Japanese Gardens.Next we moved on to the medieval city of Kilkenny where we found a cafe for lunch and watched an audio visual display at the Kilkenny Castle. We had a photo stop and a milkshake next to the im...

This morning we were driven in the coach around the streets of Dublin while our local guide Shane, provided a lot of interesting information about the city and it's often turbulent history. We paid a visit to the Trinity College Library which houses a huge collection of old books and ancient manuscripts.After lunch we headed on an excursion to Glendalough, about 50km south of Dublin which is renowned for its Early Medieval monastic settlement founded in the ...

Today was our day to farewell Scotland. We had a early breakfast at the hotel and boarded an Aer Lingus ATR72-600 for the flight to Dublin. We sat down for a while and had coffee before meeting up with our Tour Director, Tom Horgan and a few of our fellow travellers.We then boarded the Insight bus which took us to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel. The rest of the first day was free until 6:00pm when we had a welcome reception and dinner. The tour group are most...