I’m planning a trip to Ireland, arriving Tuesday, May 28 and returning on June 5. Would any readers like to meet up there? If so, please email: philg@mit.edu.
Thanks!
(The plan is to teach a couple of classes at a flight school in Dublin, do some helicopter flying, possibly visit the Isle of Man, and check out Belfast before it is swallowed up into the ocean like the Brexit doomsayers predict. Experience regarding the Isle of Man would be especially welcome. My local guide in Ireland is not a fan…)
Here are some ideas that I pulled from a guidebook…
Dublin (2 days)
- National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology
- Trinity College (arrange Book of Kells?)
- Dublin Castle and Chester Beatty Library?
- Hugh Lane Gallery
- Irish Museum of Modern Art
- Tenement Museum
Helicopter Trip to Cork?
- Cork
- Cobh
- Kinsale
- Skellig Islands
- Lakes of Killarney (orbit in heli)
- Bantry House (if extra time)
Lower Shannon
- Cliffs of Moher
- Foynes
- Lough Gur
- (maybe) Roscrea
Helicopter Trip to Galway?
- Galway
- Aran Islands
- Connemara National Park (get some exercise!)
Northwest Ireland (helicopter up there?)
- Sileve League (only if WX perfect)
Drive to Belfast (2 days)
- Carlingford way up or down
- Belfast downtown (1 day?)
- Giant’s Causeway
- Glenariff Forest Park
- Seamus Heaney HomePlace
- Mount Stewart
- Mourne Mountains
- Castlewellan Forest Park
re Isle of Man, hopefully you know your dates line up with the Race Weeks and you would be going to watch the race – which is a great experience. Unless you can helo over and back the same day it is probably too late to set up much during that time period.