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You don't have to spend hours in a car to see the Irish Cliffs. Just 30 minutes from Trinity College is scenery that you'd expect in the isolated west coast of Ireland. Instead it's here in the capital city of the country. If you
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Temple Barred Coming to Dublin, home of the greatest pubs in the universe, and drinking in Temple Bar is like visiting Paris, walking straight past the Louvre, and crowding in to see a badly painted Mona Lisa knockoff in Le Fake Museum. Why is Temple Bar So Famous ? Because Temple
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What To Do In Dublin I just googled "What to do in Dublin" and the suggestions from big travel sites & influencer blogs are as dismal as the Irish weather in January. They all recommend the same old tourist spots in the city center that just take your
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The Village Tour I promised that you'd see local Dublin and this is as local as it gets. This is the village where I live. You're going to see authentic off the beaten track Dublin today. The Route Raheny Village We start in Raheny Village. Now
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The Sea Tour Welcome to Dublin's Southside, where the accents are posher and the house prices are scary. This walk takes you through the part of Dublin where I don't live (and probably never will, unless this blog really takes off). You'll start in
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Why Dublin Preclearance Changes Everything In my 45 years of flying through Dublin Airport, easily my happiest day was the day US Preclearance opened. I lived in the US for 20 years and flown from the US to Ireland more than 100 times. Now I've used Dublin Preclearance
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I'm an a Irishman who lived in US for 20 years and have spent enough time over the Atlantic to claim tax residency in the sky. I've flown every major airline between Ireland and the US too many times, starting in coach and thankfully these days
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Welcome To Ireland: Now Slow Down The biggest mistake visitors to Ireland make is trying to see half the island in a week. Trust me, I've watched countless tourists attempt these endurance marathons. Red eye flight, rent a car, struggle with the right side steering wheel, navigate roundabouts,
In the second of our 5 day trips from our Cork hub of Kinsale, you're heading west to Clonakilty, Courtmacsherry & Inchydoney Clonakilty Market Clonakilty was very nearly our Cork hub instead of Kinsale. Love this town. If you've had an Irish breakfast, Clon is home
Today, you're off to Cork City itself. It's only 30 minutes from Kinsale. I wouldn't be mad at your if you made Cork City your hub and stayed here for 3 nights too. I just prefer smaller villages myself. Personal preference. While National Geographic
Cobh might look like just another pretty port town, but this harbor has seen more drama than The Crown, from Titanic tears to prison fears, singing donkeys and grateful bisons. Cobh. The Titanic's Final Harbour Cobh is famous as the last port of call for the Titanic. This
Pour farm-fresh milk at Rostellan, learn world-class cooking at Ballymaloe, and savor premium whiskey at Midleton Distillery Today, you'll head east from your hub in Kinsale to the villages of Ballycotton, Ballymaloe & Middleton It's an hour drive to Ballycotton where you can stretch your legs
Our Cork Hub: Kinsale Why We Chose Kinsale For Our Cork Hub Kinsale is a colorful coastal town that is the food capital of Ireland. The small town's many restaurants get their fish straight off the boats on the pier. Kinsale is more touristy than our usual hubs,
Why Cork? Cork gets overlooked in favor of Kerry by many visitors. Kerry J'Adore, but Cork has all of Kerry's beauty and food that might just nudge Kerrygold into second place. Even the strong Cork accent grows on you, like. Cork natives say that Cork is
Today you're exploring the Mizen Head Peninsula to see lighthouses, islands, Ireland's answer to a Thai beach, and quite possibly the narrowest two way road in Ireland (or the galaxy, since Star Wars was filmed here). Bantry To Mizen Head We're using Bantry as
Now we come to my favorite drive in all of Ireland, The Ring of Beara. It's wilder and much less travelled than its famous neighbor, the Ring Of Kerry, but it just as spectacular. The roads are too narrow for the tour buses that clog the Ring of
Today you'll move between our hubs of Kinsale to Bantry via Baltimore. Baltimore is a pirate ravaged, festival filled gateway to the some of the most remote inhabited islands in Ireland. And along the way, you'll pass the small character filled villages of West Cork. It&
Sheep Head is a small peninsula, often overlooked in favor of its big brothers, the Mizen & Beara peninsulas, but walkers know all about Sheep's Head. Although Sheep's Head is only 25km long itself, the intestinal walking Sheep's Head Way stretches for the guts
Why We Chose Bantry For Our West Cork Hub Bantry is pure Cork. It has just the right balance of being a real working town and not a tourist town. But it has plenty for the visitors to see and do. You'll get a true feeling for what