Saturday – Day 1: Overnight flight to Glasgow
Sunday – Day 2: Glasgow City Tour
Take a couch tour to see attractions of Glasgow, including:
Red sandstone Victorian buildings, Parks, Glasgow Cathedral
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
Monday – Day 3: Loch Lomond Cruise & Inveraray Castle
Take short cruise on Loch Lomond.
Guided tour around Inverary Castle.
Cross the Rannoch Moor. Drive through Glen Coe to Ballachulish on the coast.
Tuesday – Day 4: Isle of Skye & Clan Donald Centre
Take the “Road to the Isles.” Stop at Glenfinnan Monument.
Ferry to Isle of Skye, visit Clan Donald Centre. Stop at Eilean Donan Castle.
View Urquhart Castle ruins.
Wednesday – Day 5: Sheepdog Trials & Culloden Battlefield
Visit Leault Farm, Culloden Moor and tour Visitor Centre.
Walk around the battlefield where, on 16th April 1746, British Government forces defeated the army or Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
Thursday – Day 6: Glenfiddich Whisky Distillery & Royal Deeside
Tour the Glenfiddich Distillery.
Near Banchory stop at the Falls of Feugh, a charming tea shop to sample afternoon tea
with delicious freshly-baked scones and enjoy a talk on Highland life.
Friday – Day 7: Glamis Castle & St. Andrews or St. Andrews & Coast of Fife
Here is where the tour brochure and the itinerary we got when we booked the tour differ. One thing is the same though. We will be going to St. Andrews, “The home of Golf.” Visiting the famous Royal and Ancient Clubhouse and the Old Course as well as the British Golf Museum.
The rest I’ll let you know later.
Saturday – Day 8: Edinburgh Castle & City Tour
Tour Edinburgh City, both old and new. Tour Edinburgh Castle.
Sunday – Day 9: Belfast Tour & Dublin
Drive through part of the Scottish borders and along the coast.
At Cairnryan take a ferry ride to Lorne, just outside Belfast.
Tour Belfast’s city center, the Harland and Wolff shipyards, where the Titanic was built.
Monday – Day 10: Viking Dublin & Burlington Cabaret
Enjoy the morning at leisure or take an independent open-top bus tour and visit Guinness or Jameson.
Tour central Dublin to see Trinity College, where the Book of Kells is housed; Dail Eireann, seat of government; and rows of elegant Georgian houses.
Take a guided tour through Dublin Castle’s elegant state apartments.
Tuesday – Day 11: Blarney Castle & Killarney
Stop the Rock of Cashel. Visit Blarney Castle and kiss the famous “Stone of Eloquence.”
Visit the Blarney Woollen Mills. Drive into the mountainous scenery of county Kerry to Killarney.
Wednesday – Day 12: Ring of Kerry & Skellig Experience
Take the Ring of Kerry drive.
Cross to Valencia Island by bridge to visit the Skellig Experience which describes
austere monastic life on the nearby island.
Stop at Moll’s Gap before returning to Killarney
Thursday – Day 13: Cliffs of Moher & Bunratty Castle Banquet
Take a ferry across the River Shannon Estuary and view the Cliffs of Moher.
Medieval style feast at Bunratty Castle.
Friday – Day 14: Dublin Extension Via Galway
Drive along Galway Bay to Spiddal and across the boglands of Connemara.
Enjoy tea and scones at the Connemara Marble Factory.
Take a tour around Galway before traveling back to Dublin.
Saturday – Day 15: Depart from Dublin Airport
For your morning at leisure in Dublin, I recommend the hop on, hop off bus. It goes to Trinity College (Book of Kells), Guinness & a bunch of other places. You can see a lot in a short time. You can catch it right on O’Connell Street (the main drag, city center). Do you know where you are staying in Dubllin?
Our first time in Dublin our Itinerary shows us staying at the Burlington Hotel and our second time it shows us staying at The Academy Plaza Hotel. We already go to Trinity College that same day but later in the afternoon. But, I think I’ll have check out the hop on hop off bus because I’m figuring Dwayne is going to be needing some time away from the group by then. =)
Burlington is on the opposite side of the river from where I stayed, but still in a good area. you should be able to easily walk to a lot of places.
Academy Plaza is just a block or two from where I stayed on Upper O’Connell Street! O’Connell street has some neat things, i will tell you more at work.
Hey Butt, tee hee heeee!! I’m glad you finally get to make your trip. I hope you guys have a wonderful & safe trip…I know you will. Can’t wait for you to post pictures. Chat with you soon.
Love, Barb =)
Enjoying the blogs! ! I laughed so hard – Margo, you’re good reading. Love the pictures !
Hoping Justin & friend do the same with frequent postings – just got their blog sight early this a.m. Bunch of us went to airport last night to see them off – they will arrive in Spain tomorrow! – S’s time. By the way, when I had just started the other day to put out the water for the hummingbirds one of ’em zoomed right in 🙂 was cute. You guys keep having a Fun time!