driving north to Galway city ,spend some time looking around and a visit to a cathedral. making our way back to Dublin,we stop at the connemara marble factory,tea and scones provide.no cream just jam.sadly back to Dublin,goodbye to my fellow travelers and head to my hotel by the airport for an early morning start to Edinburgh.

WOW, I have had an amazing trip so far,met great people .our night out at bunratty was just the best.dinner in the great hall of a castle (2000 yrs old) ,dinner was a medieval style feast.good food,entertainment,harp music ,singing,you eat with a dagger,drink soup soup from the bowl,sip your red wine from goblets. after dinner a few of us went next Door to a 400 year old pub.what a fantastic evening.dinner in a 2000 year old castle, sitting outside (warm from Ire...

a short drive to tarbert to catch the ferry across the Shannon estuary.the ferry was 30 mins late ,the journey across only took 20 mins.we spend a few hours at the cliffs of mother,almost 700 foot cliffs of limestone.spectacular,we were warned not yo get close to the edge and stay behind the boundary wall,as there is a possibility that and upstart could knock some one over the edge.happy to say no one wen over.there were plenty of miggies (sandflys )big black bee...

today it was Ireland's most popular drive of 100 miles around the ring of Kerry.very narrow winding roads ,beautiful landscapes, the driver said that the bus company's all travel in the same direction so there is no trouble meeting a big bus coming the other way,not so for the tourists in campervans.a bit tricky but made it without incident. we stopped at a local farmers for a sheepdog demonstration.through the village of cahirciveen,across Valencia bridge to the...

first evening of the tour was a get together with my fellow travellers,a drink and a basic run down of what to expect. I had a group of 25 Americans,2 Canadians,1 English woman,myself,and our driver/guide.then on to merry ploughboy pub for a great 3 course dinner,Irish coffee, a fantastic show with popular Irish songs and Irish dancing. day 2 we were on the bus early and off to through the Midlands of Ireland,stop for a photo shot of cashel castle, which was c...