Travel Day to Dublin

We are ending our very long day traveling to Dublin right now and thought I would put down in writing why we are hopping around to so many places in Europe this spring/summer. Last summer when we were trying to decide where we wanted to travel next. Ireland came up in our conversation as did the Portuguese Camino. We asked ourselves, “Could we do both?”

After researching some guided hiking trips in Ireland, we chose a hiking and island hopping small group trip with a company called Wilderness Ireland and booked it for the end of May. Then, we added on a flight to Porto, Portugal on June 7th so we could walk the 151 miles to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

While we were calculating the date we would get to Santiago, we realized we were getting close to when the Tour de France would begin in Lille, France on July 5th. It has been a dream of Alan’s to see a stage of the Tour, so I snagged a couple of nights in Lille so we could be there for it. Since we had eight days in between Santiago and Lille, and we have never spent time in Paris (other than the airport), that became the next part of the trip. We will then end our trip with a day in Brussels before we fly back to Dublin and on to home.

It seems like it’s going to be kind of a whirlwind type of trip, but also exciting! We are exhausted from our overnight flight, but we rallied today with some exploring and a little pub time.

Tomorrow’s agenda:
1. Sleep in!!
2. First Irish breakfast of the trip
3. 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour
4. More exploring 🙂Lue lisää