Finance Dave
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Wife and I are planning a trip for this summer...probably early June. Would fly into Dublin, make a "loop" and fly out of Dublin unless you have other suggestions.
Need input please....the attached picture is a map with way too many potential visiting sites...but we want to narrow down with input.
We are in our late 50s....can do some walking but definitely not hikers...about 2 miles per day max for us. Like natural scenery, castles, and and meeting people at pubs/restaurants. Not much into museums. Willing and able to drive on the other side of the road, have done it several times in England/Germany. Prefer either B&Bs or 3-star level hotels...clean and basic.
Probably would spend about 3 days in Dublin without a car, then get the car and the entire trip would be about 10-11 days including travel (in other words, 8-9 days in Ireland given travel days on each end).
I want to stay in the southern half mainly.
You might wonder where I came up with the list of towns on the left (each mark on the map is one of those towns). Some were from this forum, some from a friend who lived in Ireland, and some were from an article I read on the 20 best small towns in Ireland to visit.
In addition to which towns to skip, I would appreciate comments such as "you can probably do towns A, B, and C all in one day, they are close). Also appreciate which towns would be good to stay in overnight.
Lastly, I hear lots of comments about the Ring of Kerry, but it's quite long...is it recommended to drive all of it? Is there perhaps a section of maybe half of it that we could drive to allow more time for other things?
Thanks in advance. More questions to come over the next month I'm sure.
Dave
Need input please....the attached picture is a map with way too many potential visiting sites...but we want to narrow down with input.
We are in our late 50s....can do some walking but definitely not hikers...about 2 miles per day max for us. Like natural scenery, castles, and and meeting people at pubs/restaurants. Not much into museums. Willing and able to drive on the other side of the road, have done it several times in England/Germany. Prefer either B&Bs or 3-star level hotels...clean and basic.
Probably would spend about 3 days in Dublin without a car, then get the car and the entire trip would be about 10-11 days including travel (in other words, 8-9 days in Ireland given travel days on each end).
I want to stay in the southern half mainly.
You might wonder where I came up with the list of towns on the left (each mark on the map is one of those towns). Some were from this forum, some from a friend who lived in Ireland, and some were from an article I read on the 20 best small towns in Ireland to visit.
In addition to which towns to skip, I would appreciate comments such as "you can probably do towns A, B, and C all in one day, they are close). Also appreciate which towns would be good to stay in overnight.
Lastly, I hear lots of comments about the Ring of Kerry, but it's quite long...is it recommended to drive all of it? Is there perhaps a section of maybe half of it that we could drive to allow more time for other things?
Thanks in advance. More questions to come over the next month I'm sure.
Dave