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> > Thi 3 > Morning: > Dunmore Caves (worthy?) > Regret to say that the Dunmore Caves are closed at the moment. > The OWP have helpfully (not!) removed all the sign posting > from the main road so that we spent a long while trying to > find the right place only to be met with a padlock. You might > try Kells Priory just south of Kilkenny as an alternative: they > had an amazing outdoor sculpture exhibition there last summer
Uh, thank you very much, this is a very useful information > As you are convinced that Galway (the funkiest, alivest, happeningest > provincial city in the whole country) is not worth going to,
I’m not convinced: it’s an idea I built up reading guides Any advice is welcome and higly considered 
> you should > check out the possibility of going to Aran from Doolin in Co. Clare. > And thence to Rossaveel. Part of my "brain" says that Doolin – Aran > won’t take a car though…
Your brain is right 
I had the same thought to shorten the trip, but alas… Goodbye and, again, thank you, — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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> I’d like very much to have your approval and advice for my planned >voyage in the green Ireland. >I don’t plan to visit cities such Cork and Galway, I don’t think >it would be really worthy spending time there (am I right?)
Galway is a must-do. Not too many specific attractions like ancient cathedrals there, but the atmosphere is magic. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Here it is: >Sun 30 July > Arrival in DUBLIN airport > (accomodation and sightseeing) > * night: DUBLIN (Isaacs Hostel) >Mon 31 > DUBLIN > Trinity College: Book of Kelts, Long Room > St. Patrick Cathedral, Christ Curch, > National Museum, General Post Office, > Grafton Street, St Steven’s Green, Guiness Brewery > * night: DUBLIN
The General Post Office is not especially interesting — a quick look will suffice. Dublin Castle might be worth an hour or two. There are two main divisions of the National Museum in Dublin. I think the one on Kildare Street (just a stroll from Trinity College) is the more interesting. You’ll know how to spell "Guinness" after visiting the brewery! Consider buying a Heritage Card for fifteen pounds. It covers admission to a large number of sites which are owned by the Heritage Service. You can buy it at the first site you visit. >Tue 1 > Morning: > DUBLIN (remains of previous day) > Pick up cars > Afternoon: > NEWGRANGE Passage Graves (Knowth, Dowth), > Hill of TARA > back to Dublin > # 100 Km > * night: DUBLIN
Fine. Your Heritage Card will cover them. >Wed 2 > GLENDALOUGH and sorroundings, > get to KILKENNY, visit the city > # 160 Km > * night: KILKENNY (Foulksrath Castle Hostel)
Visit Kilkenny Castle. >Thi 3 > Morning: > Dunmore Caves (worthy?) > CASHEL
Heritage Card again! > Afternoon: > get to KILLARNEY > (Muckross? Ladies’ View?) > # 210 Km > * night: KILLARNEY (Atlas House Hostel) >Fri 4 > tour RING OF KERRY > get to Dingle > # 250 Km > * night: DINGLE
The Ring is a full day. Stay at Killarney or, better, Tralee. >Sat 5 > tour DINGLE PENINSULA > get to KILLRUSH (through Tarbert Ferry) > # 150 Km > * night: KILLRUSH (Atlas House Hostel)
OK, starting from Tralee. Go right out to the end of the peninsula around Slea Head. >Sun 6 > Cliff Scenary > BURREN PARK > Cliffs of Moher, walk in BURREN (horse ride?) > # 100 Km > * night: somewhere in the north of BURREN
You might go as far as Galway. >Mon 7 > pass through GALWAY(no visit), get to ROSSAVEEL and take > the ferry to the ARAN > bycicle tour of the main ARAN island > # 100 Km > * night: ARAN
Visit Dun Aengus. >Tue 8 > ferry to ROSSAVEEL > tour of CONNEMARA > # 200 Km > * night: CONG (Cong Hostel)
From Rossaveal, go around the coast by Roundstone and Clifden and on to Leenane; this route brings you by the Connemara National Park (Heritage Card again) and Kylemore Abbey. From Leenane take the road to Maam, Cornamona, and Cong. >Wed 9 > St. Ross Abbey > on the way back to Dublin, CLONMACNOISE > give back cars > # 260 Km > * night: DUBLIN
Good. If you are making good time, stop at Locke’s Distillery in Kilbeggan. >Gio 10 > Leave DUBLIN (if there’s time some last sightseeing)
Enjoy! PB
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> Thi 3 > Morning: > Dunmore Caves (worthy?)
Regret to say that the Dunmore Caves are closed at the moment. The OWP have helpfully (not!) removed all the sign posting from the main road so that we spent a long while trying to find the right place only to be met with a padlock. You might try Kells Priory just south of Kilkenny as an alternative: they had an amazing outdoor sculpture exhibition there last summer > Mon 7 > pass through GALWAY(no visit), get to ROSSAVEEL and take
As you are convinced that Galway (the funkiest, alivest, happeningest provincial city in the whole country) is not worth going to, you should check out the possibility of going to Aran from Doolin in Co. Clare. And thence to Rossaveel. Part of my "brain" says that Doolin – Aran won’t take a car though… > the ferry to the ARAN > bycicle tour of the main ARAN island > # 100 Km > * night: ARAN
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> You’ll know how to spell "Guinness" after visiting the brewery!
Ehm… whoops ^_^; Anyway, thank you very much for your useful advices! Doodaladay! — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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Hi all, I’d like very much to have your approval and advice for my planned voyage in the green Ireland. I’ll stay 12 days (unusual, but I had to consider some time restriction of someone of my voyagemates) and I thought to restrict the trip to the center-southern, leaving the North to a future time back, assuring in this way to have the time to… "smell the roses" as someone said I don’t plan to visit cities such Cork and Galway, I don’t think it would be really worthy spending time there (am I right?) Here it is: Sun 30 July Arrival in DUBLIN airport (accomodation and sightseeing) * night: DUBLIN (Isaacs Hostel) Mon 31 DUBLIN Trinity College: Book of Kelts, Long Room St. Patrick Cathedral, Christ Curch, National Museum, General Post Office, Grafton Street, St Steven’s Green, Guiness Brewery * night: DUBLIN Tue 1 Morning: DUBLIN (remains of previous day) Pick up cars Afternoon: NEWGRANGE Passage Graves (Knowth, Dowth), Hill of TARA back to Dublin # 100 Km * night: DUBLIN Wed 2 GLENDALOUGH and sorroundings, get to KILKENNY, visit the city # 160 Km * night: KILKENNY (Foulksrath Castle Hostel) Thi 3 Morning: Dunmore Caves (worthy?) CASHEL Afternoon: get to KILLARNEY (Muckross? Ladies’ View?) # 210 Km * night: KILLARNEY (Atlas House Hostel) Fri 4 tour RING OF KERRY get to Dingle # 250 Km * night: DINGLE Sat 5 tour DINGLE PENINSULA get to KILLRUSH (through Tarbert Ferry) # 150 Km * night: KILLRUSH (Atlas House Hostel) Sun 6 Cliff Scenary BURREN PARK Cliffs of Moher, walk in BURREN (horse ride?) # 100 Km * night: somewhere in the north of BURREN Mon 7 pass through GALWAY(no visit), get to ROSSAVEEL and take the ferry to the ARAN bycicle tour of the main ARAN island # 100 Km * night: ARAN Tue 8 ferry to ROSSAVEEL tour of CONNEMARA # 200 Km * night: CONG (Cong Hostel) Wed 9 St. Ross Abbey on the way back to Dublin, CLONMACNOISE give back cars # 260 Km * night: DUBLIN Gio 10 Leave DUBLIN (if there’s time some last sightseeing) Thank you very much! — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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Pardon me for using another msg, I forgot to ask: considering the weather in Ireland in august an the fact that we will drive in the afternoon a long time, do you think it would be worthy to pick up cars with air cooler (ehm, perhaps "conditionasier" or something like is the correct word… <:/ ) Again, thank you all, — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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I don’t know – that seems like a lot of driving. I’ve been looking over the mileages of my last several trips to Ireland. My visits are normally 3 to 4 weeks, and I average about 100 km. per day. And I always feel that I’m spending way too much time driving around. However, as my travels are always distances would be more reasonable at this time of year. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts Remove nojunk.
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I think your itinerary looks Ok. We drove a lot more than that on our first trip. You may be driving everyday, but I don’t think it will be too much. I think the places you have chosen to visit are very good choices and I’m sure you will enjoy all of it. I don’t think you need to worry about getting an air conditioned car. It shouldn’t be too hot in Ireland. I hope you have a wonderful time. Lee
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>I don’t think you need to worry about getting an air conditioned car. >It shouldn’t be too hot in Ireland.
Uhh…believe me, air conditioning is a good idea if you can get it (as we’ve noticed while out driving lately). When the sun comes out here in the summer, it gets hot in the car, no matter what the outside is doing. And the outside may be surprisingly warm, too. We are, in fact (she said, crossing all available digits), about due for another genuinely warm summer. We seem to get them about once every six or seven years: the last one was in ‘94, when there were local droughts everywhere, lawn-watering bans, brush fires on the east coast, and something like three weeks solid of bright, completely clear skies and temperatures in the 80’s. It seemed like everyone in the country got a tan (as opposed to the traditional Irish sunburn, caused by suddenly seeing a bright thing in the sky and then running out to lie in its light for as long as possible. ["Sunblock? Why block what you only see three times a year?" one of our neighbors remarked to us.]) As a disclaimer I hasten to add that if this projection turns out to be wrong…well, I’m not a weatherman, I don’t even play one on TV, and I refuse to take any responsibility for anyone either taking this prediction seriously or not taking it that way. For we also have the saying, "If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes." Yesterday we yoyo’d all day between brilliant sunshine and temperatures in the low 70’s to brief but emphatic storms of sleet and hail when the temperatures dropped into the low 50’s in a matter of minutes. You gets what you pays for. (Which in Ireland’s case, as regards the weather, is uncertainty. The weather people here won’t usually even _say_ the word "sunny" in a forecast: it’s as if they’re afraid they’ll jinx it. The usual code phrase is "prolonged bright spells". They were even using it during the three-week-long "prolonged bright spell" in ‘94.) Meanwhile: if you can get the air conditioning, get it. There is one other place it’s useful: when you’re stuck in yet another traffic jam heading into or out of any city of any size. The Irish traffic situation is getting actively bad in the towns, due to very rapidly increasing levels of car ownership and relatively poor public transport. Best! — Diane The Owl Springs Partnership / County Wicklow, Ireland Coming soon: http://www.dianeduane.com and http://www.petermorwood.com Until 12/31/00: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/index2.html
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Hi all, I’d like very much to have your approval and advice for my planned voyage in the green Ireland. I’ll stay 12 days (unusual, but I had to consider some time restriction of someone of my voyagemates) and I thought to restrict the trip to the center-southern, leaving the North to a future time back, assuring in this way to have the time to… "smell the roses" as someone said I don’t plan to visit cities such Cork and Galway, I don’t think it would be really worthy spending time there (am I right?) Here it is: Sun 30 July Arrival in DUBLIN airport (accomodation and sightseeing) * night: DUBLIN (Isaacs Hostel) Mon 31 DUBLIN Trinity College: Book of Kelts, Long Room St. Patrick Cathedral, Christ Curch, National Museum, General Post Office, Grafton Street, St Steven’s Green, Guiness Brewery * night: DUBLIN Tue 1 Morning: DUBLIN (remains of previous day) Pick up cars Afternoon: NEWGRANGE Passage Graves (Knowth, Dowth), Hill of TARA back to Dublin # 100 Km * night: DUBLIN Wed 2 GLENDALOUGH and sorroundings, get to KILKENNY, visit the city # 160 Km * night: KILKENNY (Foulksrath Castle Hostel) Thi 3 Morning: Dunmore Caves (worthy?) CASHEL Afternoon: get to KILLARNEY (Muckross? Ladies’ View?) # 210 Km * night: KILLARNEY (Atlas House Hostel) Fri 4 tour RING OF KERRY get to Dingle # 250 Km * night: DINGLE Sat 5 tour DINGLE PENINSULA get to KILLRUSH (through Tarbert Ferry) # 150 Km * night: KILLRUSH (Atlas House Hostel) Sun 6 Cliff Scenary BURREN PARK Cliffs of Moher, walk in BURREN (horse ride?) # 100 Km * night: somewhere in the north of BURREN Mon 7 pass through GALWAY(no visit), get to ROSSAVEEL and take the ferry to the ARAN bycicle tour of the main ARAN island # 100 Km * night: ARAN Tue 8 ferry to ROSSAVEEL tour of CONNEMARA # 200 Km * night: CONG (Cong Hostel) Wed 9 St. Ross Abbey on the way back to Dublin, CLONMACNOISE give back cars # 260 Km * night: DUBLIN Gio 10 Leave DUBLIN (if there’s time some last sightseeing) Thank you very much! — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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Pardon me for using another msg, I forgot to ask: considering the weather in Ireland in august an the fact that we will drive in the afternoon a long time, do you think it would be worthy to pick up cars with air cooler (ehm, perhaps "conditionasier" or something like is the correct word… <:/ ) Again, thank you all, — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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I don’t know – that seems like a lot of driving. I’ve been looking over the mileages of my last several trips to Ireland. My visits are normally 3 to 4 weeks, and I average about 100 km. per day. And I always feel that I’m spending way too much time driving around. However, as my travels are always distances would be more reasonable at this time of year. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts Remove nojunk.
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I think your itinerary looks Ok. We drove a lot more than that on our first trip. You may be driving everyday, but I don’t think it will be too much. I think the places you have chosen to visit are very good choices and I’m sure you will enjoy all of it. I don’t think you need to worry about getting an air conditioned car. It shouldn’t be too hot in Ireland. I hope you have a wonderful time. Lee
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>I don’t think you need to worry about getting an air conditioned car. >It shouldn’t be too hot in Ireland.
Uhh…believe me, air conditioning is a good idea if you can get it (as we’ve noticed while out driving lately). When the sun comes out here in the summer, it gets hot in the car, no matter what the outside is doing. And the outside may be surprisingly warm, too. We are, in fact (she said, crossing all available digits), about due for another genuinely warm summer. We seem to get them about once every six or seven years: the last one was in ‘94, when there were local droughts everywhere, lawn-watering bans, brush fires on the east coast, and something like three weeks solid of bright, completely clear skies and temperatures in the 80’s. It seemed like everyone in the country got a tan (as opposed to the traditional Irish sunburn, caused by suddenly seeing a bright thing in the sky and then running out to lie in its light for as long as possible. ["Sunblock? Why block what you only see three times a year?" one of our neighbors remarked to us.]) As a disclaimer I hasten to add that if this projection turns out to be wrong…well, I’m not a weatherman, I don’t even play one on TV, and I refuse to take any responsibility for anyone either taking this prediction seriously or not taking it that way. For we also have the saying, "If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes." Yesterday we yoyo’d all day between brilliant sunshine and temperatures in the low 70’s to brief but emphatic storms of sleet and hail when the temperatures dropped into the low 50’s in a matter of minutes. You gets what you pays for. (Which in Ireland’s case, as regards the weather, is uncertainty. The weather people here won’t usually even _say_ the word "sunny" in a forecast: it’s as if they’re afraid they’ll jinx it. The usual code phrase is "prolonged bright spells". They were even using it during the three-week-long "prolonged bright spell" in ‘94.) Meanwhile: if you can get the air conditioning, get it. There is one other place it’s useful: when you’re stuck in yet another traffic jam heading into or out of any city of any size. The Irish traffic situation is getting actively bad in the towns, due to very rapidly increasing levels of car ownership and relatively poor public transport. Best! — Diane The Owl Springs Partnership / County Wicklow, Ireland Coming soon: http://www.dianeduane.com and http://www.petermorwood.com Until 12/31/00: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~owls/index2.html
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> Thi 3 > Morning: > Dunmore Caves (worthy?)
Regret to say that the Dunmore Caves are closed at the moment. The OWP have helpfully (not!) removed all the sign posting from the main road so that we spent a long while trying to find the right place only to be met with a padlock. You might try Kells Priory just south of Kilkenny as an alternative: they had an amazing outdoor sculpture exhibition there last summer > Mon 7 > pass through GALWAY(no visit), get to ROSSAVEEL and take
As you are convinced that Galway (the funkiest, alivest, happeningest provincial city in the whole country) is not worth going to, you should check out the possibility of going to Aran from Doolin in Co. Clare. And thence to Rossaveel. Part of my "brain" says that Doolin – Aran won’t take a car though… > the ferry to the ARAN > bycicle tour of the main ARAN island > # 100 Km > * night: ARAN
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> > Thi 3 > Morning: > Dunmore Caves (worthy?) > Regret to say that the Dunmore Caves are closed at the moment. > The OWP have helpfully (not!) removed all the sign posting > from the main road so that we spent a long while trying to > find the right place only to be met with a padlock. You might > try Kells Priory just south of Kilkenny as an alternative: they > had an amazing outdoor sculpture exhibition there last summer
Uh, thank you very much, this is a very useful information > As you are convinced that Galway (the funkiest, alivest, happeningest > provincial city in the whole country) is not worth going to,
I’m not convinced: it’s an idea I built up reading guides Any advice is welcome and higly considered > you should > check out the possibility of going to Aran from Doolin in Co. Clare. > And thence to Rossaveel. Part of my "brain" says that Doolin – Aran > won’t take a car though…
Your brain is right I had the same thought to shorten the trip, but alas… Goodbye and, again, thank you, — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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> I’d like very much to have your approval and advice for my planned >voyage in the green Ireland. >I don’t plan to visit cities such Cork and Galway, I don’t think >it would be really worthy spending time there (am I right?)
Galway is a must-do. Not too many specific attractions like ancient cathedrals there, but the atmosphere is magic. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Here it is: >Sun 30 July > Arrival in DUBLIN airport > (accomodation and sightseeing) > * night: DUBLIN (Isaacs Hostel) >Mon 31 > DUBLIN > Trinity College: Book of Kelts, Long Room > St. Patrick Cathedral, Christ Curch, > National Museum, General Post Office, > Grafton Street, St Steven’s Green, Guiness Brewery > * night: DUBLIN
The General Post Office is not especially interesting — a quick look will suffice. Dublin Castle might be worth an hour or two. There are two main divisions of the National Museum in Dublin. I think the one on Kildare Street (just a stroll from Trinity College) is the more interesting. You’ll know how to spell "Guinness" after visiting the brewery! Consider buying a Heritage Card for fifteen pounds. It covers admission to a large number of sites which are owned by the Heritage Service. You can buy it at the first site you visit. >Tue 1 > Morning: > DUBLIN (remains of previous day) > Pick up cars > Afternoon: > NEWGRANGE Passage Graves (Knowth, Dowth), > Hill of TARA > back to Dublin > # 100 Km > * night: DUBLIN
Fine. Your Heritage Card will cover them. >Wed 2 > GLENDALOUGH and sorroundings, > get to KILKENNY, visit the city > # 160 Km > * night: KILKENNY (Foulksrath Castle Hostel)
Visit Kilkenny Castle. >Thi 3 > Morning: > Dunmore Caves (worthy?) > CASHEL
Heritage Card again! > Afternoon: > get to KILLARNEY > (Muckross? Ladies’ View?) > # 210 Km > * night: KILLARNEY (Atlas House Hostel) >Fri 4 > tour RING OF KERRY > get to Dingle > # 250 Km > * night: DINGLE
The Ring is a full day. Stay at Killarney or, better, Tralee. >Sat 5 > tour DINGLE PENINSULA > get to KILLRUSH (through Tarbert Ferry) > # 150 Km > * night: KILLRUSH (Atlas House Hostel)
OK, starting from Tralee. Go right out to the end of the peninsula around Slea Head. >Sun 6 > Cliff Scenary > BURREN PARK > Cliffs of Moher, walk in BURREN (horse ride?) > # 100 Km > * night: somewhere in the north of BURREN
You might go as far as Galway. >Mon 7 > pass through GALWAY(no visit), get to ROSSAVEEL and take > the ferry to the ARAN > bycicle tour of the main ARAN island > # 100 Km > * night: ARAN
Visit Dun Aengus. >Tue 8 > ferry to ROSSAVEEL > tour of CONNEMARA > # 200 Km > * night: CONG (Cong Hostel)
From Rossaveal, go around the coast by Roundstone and Clifden and on to Leenane; this route brings you by the Connemara National Park (Heritage Card again) and Kylemore Abbey. From Leenane take the road to Maam, Cornamona, and Cong. >Wed 9 > St. Ross Abbey > on the way back to Dublin, CLONMACNOISE > give back cars > # 260 Km > * night: DUBLIN
Good. If you are making good time, stop at Locke’s Distillery in Kilbeggan. >Gio 10 > Leave DUBLIN (if there’s time some last sightseeing)
Enjoy! PB
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> You’ll know how to spell "Guinness" after visiting the brewery!
Ehm… whoops ^_^; Anyway, thank you very much for your useful advices! Doodaladay! — Cristiano G. Gozzini Before you buy.
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