Wow - when I started my last travel blog I had been planning for a LONG time..... this blog, not quite as much. Much of this is due to my daughter getting married NEXT WEEKEND!! But a package arrived yesterday with all of our travel materials, and I realized it was time to start!!
Our trip to Ireland kinda happened.... not as planned for as previous trips. Bill's family is having a family reunion just west of London in Burghfield over the July 4th weekend. We've been to London, and if we are flying across the pond we may as well do something else while we are over there. So - Ireland it is! Our biggest decision was to do it ourselves, our norm, or do an organized tour. We decided on a tour after considering driving on the left side of the road, on unfamiliar roads and having to navigate. We figured that neither of us would get to see everything! I've also read some harrowing tales of narrow winding roads in Ireland. So wimp it out we will - and a bus tour it is. We decided on CIE's Irish Spirit tour. We added a day on the front of the tour and a day on the end. Our backpacks arrived yesterday with docs, information, luggage tags, maps, and vouchers. We have done a bus tour before - in Italy - so we know that you are on someone else's timetable (early morning meeting time) and have to see things on their schedule. However, the flip side of that coin is totally letting someone else take care of things. And so... our adventure begins! Come along!
Hoping we don't have to use that emergency poncho!!
