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Travelling to Ireland

  • 25-02-2009 11:40pm
    #1
    lola4ever
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    My friend from Germany is coming to Ireland for 1 week just to see the place. I'm absolutely hopeless when it comes to travel, I've been in Dublin my whole life and I'm not even sure what there is to see here.

    I'm curious what people from Ireland what recommend to someone foreign coming to visit. Like I said, I'm really hopeless at this stuff :o I told her she'd be bored being in Dublin for 7 days, so maybe somebody might be able to recommend things to do around Dublin (that doesn't involve a viking boat) for a few days and then some other places around Ireland to visit?

    I know she would really appreciate it (me too!) :D


Comments

  • #2
    li@mo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 349 ✭✭li@mo


    Have a look at this:

    http://www.discoverireland.ie/dublin.aspx


  • #3
    anladmór
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    germany by and large is extremely densley populated and for this reason many germans take well to Ireland. a generalisation but everything i've heard from a few german lads i know have been positive about here.


  • #4
    thehamo
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    dont know how far you are willing to travel. IF you are you have to go to the west of Ireland. I strongly recommend around the lough corrib/lough mask area. I recently spent three weeks around these parts and every day I was just dumbfounded by the scenery. Close enough to Conemara too and only about 45 minutes outside Galway City centre. Its a place definitely on the cards for a return visit by me anyway!


  • #5
    spurious
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    Glendalough
    Howth/Malahide

    railtours.ie do a range of excellent day trips - I've been on the Giant's Causeway/Bushmills one myself a number of times. They are long days with early starts, but they pack in a lot and might suit your friend.

    Kilkenny is doable in a day.


  • #6
    phog
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    Come west and if you've time start in Kerry and work right up through West Clare, then Connemara and then onto Donegal, absolutely fantastic.

    For an idea on what some of the scenery is like just search, pix.ie or flickr.com.


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  • #7
    Fratton Fred
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    I had a colleague over from Germany and two things he really enjoyed were the walking tours of Dublin and the wild wicklow tour down to Glendalough. You'll find them both on google.


  • #8
    dereko1969
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    Glendalough is great, I love it every time I go there.
    I also thought this was a great tour, it's a good few years since I did it though
    http://www.esb.ie/main/about_esb/numbertwentynine/default.htm
    it's handy for in town and shows you how the rich lived 250 years ago.
    even just wandering around the phoenix park is another option. there's loads of stuff out there and it can be a real eye opener when you have to show foreigners around and can make you realise that there's a lot more going on here than you think.


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