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Schaumburg, United States
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O'Hare International Airport, United States
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Dulles International Airport, United States
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Dublin Airport, Ireland
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Dublin, Ireland
7/28-
Land in Dublin at 7:10 am.
Pick up rental car from Budget.
Call the Hendrick Smithfield hotel to see if we can check in earlier than 10am! If not we can grab breakfast, find a central car park, and walk between close places!
Little Museum of Dublin Tour at 10am, about 30 min long. 22min walk to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
St. Patrick's Cathedral Tour at 11am, about 40 min self-guided. 12min walk to Dublin Castle.
Dublin Castle Tour at 12pm, about 40 min self-guided. Then time for a walk through the Dublin Castle Gardens.
LUNCH - We have about 1hr and 30min. If we were unable to stop at the hotel we could check-in now! 20min walk to hotel/30min walk to Book of Kells. OR just a few minutes drive in either case! Would be best for us to have our car for the end of the day! Can use a central car park and walk between close places!
Book of Kells Tours at 2:30pm, about 90 min self-guided. 14min walk to MoLI.
MoLI Tour is accessible to us all day. This would be a good time for us to stop in. Last entry time is 4:30pm. We can plan to spend about an hour here, self-guided. It takes about 12min by car to get to the Guinness Storefront.
Guinness Storefront Tour at 5:45, about 1hr 30min self-guided with STOUTIE.
Dinner at a pub before heading back to the hotel!
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Kinsale, Ireland
7/30-
Leave Dublin to head towards Kinsale but we'll make a bunch of stops on the way.
First we'll go to the Sally Gap, Wicklow- 45min.
Then to Glendalough, Wicklow- 30min, along the way we can see things like: the P.S. I Love You Bridge, Lough Tay lake view point, the Glendalough Cathedral and the Poulanass Waterfalls.
Next we will travel to Kilkenny to see the castle and have a beer/lunch at Smithwicks- 1hr 20min.
From there we will stop to see two ruins: Jerpoint Abbey- 20min and Kells Priory- 12min.
After that we can head to the Blarney Castle and Gardens to do a self-guided tour of the grounds and kiss the Blarney stone- 1hr 50min.
If it is not too late we can go through Cork and stop at the market (closes at 6pm) for lunch for tomorrow- 20 min.
Then head to Kinsale to check-in and have dinner- 30min from Cork/40min from Blarney Castle.
7/31-
If we were not able to stop in Cork yesterday, we can stop today, the market opens at 8am- 30min. And then head to Kilarney National Park to start the Ring of Kerry- 1hr.
If we were able to stop, we can get an early start to Kilarney National Park to start the ring of Kerry- 1hr 30min.
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Doolin, Ireland
8/1-
Leave Kinsale and drive through Cork- 30min towards Doolin. Stop at the English Market for picnic items. Drive the rest of the way to Doolin- 2hrs ish.
Walk along the Cliffs of Moher and set up for a picnic lunch.
Check into our b&b.
Explore Doolin!
8/2-
Doolin Ferry at 8:30am to Inis Mor.
Explore Doolin!
Return on ferry at 4:30pm via tour of Cliffs of Moher.
Dinner in Doolin!
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Belfast, United Kingdom
8/3-
Leave Doolin and head to Rathbaun Farm- 1hr ish by 12pm for our homestead tour, about 1.5 hours.
After the tour we can drive to Belfast to check-in at our air-bnb- 4hrs.
Grab dinner and some stuff for linch tomorrow!
8/4-
Early start to the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge- 1hr 10min by 9-9:30am for our tour!
Then we can leave our car and take the Ulsterbus 402 from Ballintoy Rope Bridge to Dunseverick Castle so we can do a cliff walk down to the Giant's Causeway.
We can eat lunch along the way and then spend some time at the Causeway!
Take the Ulsterbus 402 from Aird Causeway to Ballintoy Rope Bridge to pick yo the car and head to the Dark Hedges- 16min.
If we have time/want to we can head to the Belfast Castle- 55min to walk around for free! Or we can head back home- 1hr 10min to get dinner and prepare to go home tomorrow!
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Dublin, Ireland
8/5-
Flight in Dublin leaves at 11:35am. Need to be at the airport by 8:30 to drop off the car and it is a 2hr drive to get back there!
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O'Hare International Airport, United States