Ten Days To Go

We are just 10 days away from starting our trip to Ireland with our friends, Linda and Alan, and I thought I would start by listing our general plans. We leave for Dublin from Newark on June 30. We are staying 3 nights in Dublin and then renting a car for the rest of the trip. We'll spend 2 nights in Kilkenny (near Waterford on the map), 2 nights in Killarney, 2 nights in Dingle, 2 nights in Galway, 1 night in Portrush at the northern tip of Northern Ireland and 1 night in Belfast before heading back to Dublin to catch our flight home. Basically we're making a big clockwise trip around the entire island.

Things that I'm personally looking forward to are:
- Guinness Tour in Dublin
- Touring the Butter Museum in Cork
- Kissing the Blarney Stone
- Driving the Ring of Kerry
- Driving the Dingle Loop
- Day trip by ferry to the Aran Islands
- Visiting the Royal Portrush Golf Course (site of the British Open shortly after we are there)
- The Titanic Museum in Belfast

Last but certainly not least is just experiencing Ireland - the food, the beer, the pubs and the people.