please help with Ireland/Scotland trip

Unless it was one week in Scotland, one in Ireland, you probably do not have enough time to come over to Scotland. There is enough in Ireland for the full 14 days and also in Scotland for the same.

You are best looking at Ireland, both the Republic and Northern Ireland, It will also save money as the crossings between Ireland and Great Britain could take a surprising amount from your budget

I agree with MC, I would not bother with a stop in Scotland for just two days, you will not have enough time to really see anything. I spent 6 days in Edinburgh, and 4 days in Glasgow, and those would be the two main cities that would be easy to fly into.With less than 14 days just for Ireland you will find it hard to see everything you want to see. I spent four days in Dublin and that seemed about right. Remember, you will be tired on the day you land, and may not get much sight-seeing done so that would really only leave you one full day to see the many interesting places in Dublin. The other two other main towns in Ireland to base yourself in for a few days would be Killarney and Galway, and I did four days in each of them. But, I did not have a car, and used these places as a jump off point for guided day trips. If you are going to have a car then you have more freedom to stay in smaller towns along your route. So, let us know if you are going to have a car, and what sort of sights interest you and you will get some very good advice from the well travelled people here.

Just returned from 12 days in Ireland. 4 days in Dublin, a 3-day Railtours Ireland trip to Cork, Cobh, Kilarnney (including Ring of Kerry tour), Dingle and Cliffs of Moher, then up to Northern Ireland for a day in Belfast and then driving the Antrim Coast to see Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge and Giants Causeway, then over to Waterford, Kilkenny, Glendalough and the Wicklow Mountains and Howth before flying back out of Dublin. I wish we'd had more time in some of the smaller towns (Cobh, Dingle and Kilkenny), and was pleasantly surprised and delighted by Waterford and Howth.

Thanks for the suggestions! Maybe I do need to forget any travel to Scotland. Yes, Anita, I am going to have a car, so I hope I can see more of the countryside. Thanks guys/gals.....please offer anymore suggestions. Carrie, I am going to look at your schedule.

Having the car means you will be able to see more of Ireland. I would schedule a few days in your trip to Northern Ireland, the possible centred on either Belfast or Londonderry/Derry, or even both.

I found it interesting comparing the Titanic museums in Belfast and in Cobh right at the other end of the island. Thanks to improvements in the road network you can get from one end of Ireland to the other reasonable quickly, though the networks are centrered on Belfast or Dublin making sometimes quicker to go the long way round.

Thanks for the terrific suggestion. I will include that in my trip!!! Great idea.

If you go to both the museums, I would suggest the one in the old railway station in Cobh first. It concentrates more on the emigrant story, but the Titanic Museum in Belfast is so good it will over shadow almost any other museum of the same subject.

The Titanic Museum in Belfast also has a small plaque which shows how far Northern Ireland has come in recent years, it was opened by the First Minister and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, two men who twenty years ago would have had difficulty being in the same county as each other.

There are 2 museums in Cobh that have information about the Titanic. The one in the visitor center gives a lot of information about the importance of the town as a port, as well as the history of people leaving Ireland by boat. A lot of information about Titanic and the Lusitania disaster (just before you come into town there's a beautiful cemetery where many from the Lusitania are laid to rest). There's also a Titanic museum in the former Whie Star Lines offices. I didn't go to the Titanic museum in Belfast, but heard great things about it.