hello all! It's time to start planning my annual spring trip! It will be for May/June. I have it for 4.5 weeks but I can add days as necessary (last year I planned a trip for scandinavia and after so many helpful posts here the final itinerary was like a week longer than the original one).
No car so I have some tours lined up for Ireland and Scotland. I included the details of each and it would be great if someone knowledgeable lets me know if they seem like good tours or if they are missing an important sight. There are always other tours I can choose instead.
I travel alone (sadly) so am typically a fast traveler. To save money, I also rarely eat in restaurants so that typically lets me have more hours to sight see also. Let me know how it looks!
Day 1 arrive in london
Day 2 London
Day 3 London
Day 4 London
Day 5 London
Day 6 London day trip to Cambridge or oxford
Day 7 London to bath (earliest train)
Day 8 Cotswolds and stonehenge day trip
Day 9 Bath
Day 10 Bath to york (earliest train)
Day 11 York
Day 12 York to edinburgh (earliest train? later train?)
Day 13 Edinburgh
Day 14 Day trip to glasgow
Day 15 edinburgh
Day 16 day 1 group tour - edinburgh to loch lomond/inveraray/argyll to oban
Day 17 day 2 group tour - oban to mull/iona/staffa back to oban
Day 18 day 3 group tour - oban to glencoe/fort william/great glen to plockton
Day 19 day 4 group tour - skye - tour calls it a "flexible day" and will involve either quiraing/trotternish ridge or loch corruisk or red cuillin/elgol and that it depends on the weather to plockton
Day 20 day 5 group tour - plockton to eilean donan castle/loch ness/grampian mountains back to edinburgh
Day 21 Edinburgh to Belfast – flight
Day 22 Belfast
Day 23 Day trip to castle/giant’s causeway/dark hedges
Day 24 Belfast to dublin (earliest train)
Day 25 dublin – late train to galway
Day 26 Day trip to connemara
Day 27 Day trip to aran islands
Day 28 day 1 group tour (starts in galway) - galway to burren/kilfenora/cliffs of moher to killarney
Day 29 day 2 group tour - killarney to inch beach/slea head/dingle back to killarney
Day 30 day 3 group tour - killarney to carrauntoohil/portmagee/derrynane house/moll’s gap/torc waterfall to killarney
Day 31 day 4 group tour - killarney to blarney castle/cahir/kilkenny/ to dublin
Day 32 leave dublin