IRELAND
DUBLIN 1 night
Things to see/do:
Stephen’s Green park
Fusilier’s Arch
Grafton Street (shops, food, buskers/street performers)
Trinity College Library and Book of Kells (at least 1 hour, make online reservation in advance)
Fleet Street/Temple Bar
Merchant’s Arch
Ha’Penny Bridge
Old Storehouse
**Dublin is somewhere with so much good food that I hesitate to make recommendations. Everywhere I ate was amazing and had gluten free options at no extra charge. It’s a city with enough good food that you could eat little things all throughout the day and still want to sample more of what Dublin has to offer
Breakfast/Brunch places:
Gourmet Food Parlour – in Swords <10 min from DUB airport
Old Mill Restaurant
Bunsen Temple Bar
Lunch/Dinner:
Any of the burger places, anything with beef and/or potatoes
Anything from a pub
Sleep in Dublin:
KILKENNY
1 night
St Canice Cathedral
Walk the Medieval Mile
Rothe House/Chapel
Kilkenny Castle
End night at Kyteler’s Inn
Breakfast/Brunch:
Yew restaurant
Aran Artisan Bakery & Bistro
Lunch/Dinner:
Lanigan’s Bar & Restaurant
Zuni restaurant
Sleep near Kilkenny:
CORK/COBH
1 night
Blarney Castle & grounds (3+ hours)
Cobh (2 hours)
Do e-bike tour here?
Elizabeth Fort
Go to the English Market
Breakfast/Brunch:
Liberty Grill
Pembroke Street
Oliver Plunkett
Lunch/Dinner:
Market Lane
Miyazaki
English Market
Paradiso
Sleep in Cork/Cobh:
DINGLE
1 night
This is the town from the movie Leap Year, and also home to some Star Wars filming locations, Far and Away, Excalibur, etc
Do the Slea Head Drive (30 miles, 1-4 hours)
Dunbeg Fort
Gallarus Oratory
Blasket Island Centre
Dunquin Pier (far west end of dingle peninsula)
Fair Huts/Beehive Huts
Take a 1 hour Dingle Dolphin Boat Tour and meet Fungie the Dingle Dolphin (book in advance https://www.dingledolphin.com/ )
Lots of cute/cool shops
Rent kayaks in Dingle Harbor
Skellig Michael tours are out of Port Magee
O’Sullivan’s Pub for traditional music
Brunch/Breakfast:
Pig and Leaf
Lunch/Dinner:
Ashe’s Bar
Out of the Blue
The Charthouse
The Half Door
Global Village
Sleep in Dingle:
CLIFFS OF MOHER
1-2 hours
When you see the turnoff for the visitor center, keep driving. The next turn on your right will take you to a private property parking that’s €5 per person instead of €10 per person that you’d pay at the visitor center. This gets you right up to the cliff with the least amount of walking, and then you can do as much walking along the trail as you wish. When we went, the guy in charge was leaving at 5pm.
If you keep driving I think you can park and take the walking/hiking trail.
If you have time, Doolin was a fun little stop near the cliffs. You could spend 15 minutes to one hour here.
GALWAY
1 night
If eating dinner in Galway on a weekend, make reservations ahead of time.
I hesitate to make recommendations for Galway, because it’s so fun to walk around the city and discover little corners, shops, and bakeries.
You’ll also pass a few cute looking taverns that probably have great food on the way from the cliffs to Galway.
Sleep in Galway:
Drive back to Dublin to drop off rental car and catch flight to Scotland
SCOTLAND
Fly from Dublin to Inverness
If flying from Belfast, check the rental car fees of dropping the car off there since it’s a different country.
Rent car in Scotland
SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
INVERNESS/DORNIE
1 night
Drive Inverness-Sheildaig, 1.5hr by car
Sheildaig (1-2hrs)
Sand Beach (1hr? cool trails and views of Scottish isles)
Drive Shieldaig to Applecross, 1hr by car
Applecross (1-2hrs)
Drive Applecross to Plockton, 1.5hr by car
Plockton 2-3hrs – (do Calum’s seal trips https://www.calums-sealtrips.com/ )
Drive Plockton to Dornie/Eilean Donan Castle, 20min
Eilean Donan Castle
Drive 30min-2hrs into Isle of Skye
Sleep in Plockton, Dornie, or somewhere between Dornie and Skulamus
ISLE OF SKYE – 1-2 nights
Days 2-3 in Scotland
Old Man of Storr (3 miles)
Rubha Nam Brathairean (Brother’s Point, 2+ miles)
Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls
Quiraing – 4.5 mile hike
Dunvegan Castle
Neist Point
Fairy Glen (1 mile, easy)
Fairy Pools (1-2 hours, if short on time pick the glen over the pools)
The Cuillins – hike up Bla Bheinn (5 mile hike) or Sgurr Na Stri for 360 views, or the tallest peak Sgurr Alasdair (6 miles)
Watch the sunset at Neist Point
Breakfast/Brunch:
Cafe Cuil
Deli Gasta
Bog Myrtle Skye
Lunch/Dinner:
The Granary (need reservations)
The Isles Inn Pub & Hotel
The Three Chimneys Restaurant (need reservations, eat here after sunset at Neist Point)
The View Restaurant
Sleep in Skye:
Travel tips from earthtrekkers.com:
Fly back to DUB from Inverness or Glasgow
OTHER SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS OPTIONS
If heading down east of Loch Ness:
Arrive in Inverness
1HR drive to Rothiemurchus: this drive will take you about 45-minutes and you’ll end up in the UK’s largest National Park, The Cairngorms.Book a quad biking tour https://www.quadtreksaviemore.com/quad-biking-aviemore/
Miles With Mal 