WooHoo! I'm going to Ireland!

[madeleone]

I booked our trip yesterday, I am so excited!

It has been a dream of mine for a long time to go to Ireland someday. Both of my dad's grandparent's came from there, and I have always, always wanted to visit. I don't know a lot about them, other than what county they came from, but just to have the chance to go there is a thrill.

I have been after hubby since our youngest graduated from high school four years ago, that now is our time to travel and do things like this while we are still young enough and healthy enough to enjoy it. And while he agreed in theory, he always had an excuse... can't get time off work, need to save up more money, we'll do it someday, yadda, yadda, yadda. I finally told him about a year ago if he didn't make up his mind to go within the next year, I was going to sign up for a tour or something and go by myself. Of course he said: no, no, I really want to go too, we'll get around to it.  Sad to say, it was his mothers passing last summer that was a real eye-opener for him that life really is too short.  So he said then that we should start planning to go.

I spent several months drooling over travel sites and deciding where I want to go and what I want to see. He is pretty much letting me choose where we are going as I want to focus on one region rather than try to rush through a whirlwind tour of the whole country. We applied for our passports early in December and they arrived last week. So I did some final checking on different packages and made a final decision and booked it yesterday.

We will leave on 3/29 arrive in Ireland on 3/30. We're going to rent a car and have B&B vouchers for 10 nights, I want to mainly explore the western areas, the Great-grandparents were from Mayo, so there definitely, and also probably Galway and Clare. Return home on 4/9. If anyone has been there, or has any pointers, suggestions, likes, dislikes, please feel free to let me know.

I am so excited, I feel like a little kid waiting for Christmas. :)

Comments

[kribu.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so wonderful! *squees*

And yeah, just exploring a specific area is a much better idea than short stops in a dozen different places. You may not get to "see it all", but the memories will be so much stronger.

[madeleone]

Thanks, more squeeees with me! It is tempting to try to plan too much. But that was one of the suggestions I read and it makes sense. If you try to do too much you will just be rushing from one place to the next with no time to kick back and enjoy the trip.