Adventures with Cindy

Ireland is a Dream Trip for my Mom. For her 75th Birthday I gave her a week in Ireland. My plans are to start in Dublin, rent a car, and circle the bottom half of the island staying only in castles or manors.

I will share my itinerary and plans in a spreadsheet:

	DAY 1	DAY 2	DAY 3	DAY 4	DAY 5	DAY 6	DAY 7
5AM
6AM
7AM		breakfast @ hotel	breakfast @ hotel	breakfast @ hotel	breakfast @ hotel	breakfast @ hotel	breakfast
8AM		check out	Drive to Killarney				ck out
9AM		drive to Wicklow		Ring of Kerry Tour	Bunratty Castle & Park	Cliff of Moher	drive 40 min. to Dublin Airport
10AM	arrive in Dublin	Powerscourt Estate		7 hour Tour		7 1/2 hour tour	Covid test @ airport 10:15 & 10:20
11AM	p/u car	Gardens and Waterfall	Killarney Tour & Lake Cruise				car has to be back by 11
12PM	Hop on Hop off	travel to Waterford
1PM	St. Pat’s Cathedral	Waterford Crystal Tour	Drive to Kerry		Kylemore Abbey		Flight home @1:20
2PM		Head to Cork
3PM	Ck into Brooks Hotel	Blarney Castle
4PM
5PM
6PM	Dinner Show @ Belvedere Hotel	Dinner @ the Manor				drive to Meath
7PM
8PM
	DUBLIN	CORK	KERRY	KERRY	GALWAY	MEATH
	BROOKS HOTEL	HAYFIELD MANOR	KENMORE PARK	KENMORE PARK	ABBEY GLEN CASTLE	TRIM CASTLE

We arrived in Dublin, got the car and headed to our hotel. As this was the first night and in town we did stay at Brooks Hotel. https://www.brookshotel.ie/

Then on the Hop on – Hop off Bus to tour the city of Dublin. I think we rode it around a couple of times.

Then we hopped off at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and took in the awesome history and beauty of the church.

Then back to the hotel to freshen up before dinner and a show.

We started out with a traditional three course Irish meal at the Belvedere Hotel and then enjoyed an Irish show of Irish Dancing, Singing and Live Music.

This being our first day here and including our flight over, we were a bit exhausted.