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      Trip Report Ireland: Our Daughter's Wedding, Some Sightseeing and a Mini Fodor's GTG

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      I wanted to title this "An Unforgettable 8 Days in Ireland: Our Daughter's Wedding, Some Sightseeing and a Mini Fodor's GTG". But it was too many characters!

      My head is still spinning from trying to process all that we saw and did during our three weeks abroad. I'm somewhat concerned that I won't be able to focus my thoughts well enough to do a decent trip report. But I'm also afraid that if I don't start soon I'll begin to lose details! So here goes...

      While I was researching this trip, especially when I started to feel crunched for time, I made up my mind that I'd do this as five separate reports, one for each destination. As much as I love reading trip reports, I reached a point where I just didn't feel I had the luxury of reading the parts that applied to places we weren't planning to visit. And I don't see any reason to make someone who's looking for info on Barcelona wade through the info on our daughter's wedding, etc. So I'm going to try doing it this way.

      I give fair warning to those to whom this sort of thing doesn't appeal: this is going to get personal and gushy (mushy too). There will probably be parts when it sounds a bit too much like a romance novel. But, hey, the point of this trip was to attend our daughter's wedding! I've had enough requests for wedding details to feel that I have at least a small audience. And I'm hoping that some of the information about what they went through to make this a reality may be of use to someone else who's going through something similar (or who has a child who is).

      I'll also be giving details about flights, car rental and the sightseeing we managed to sneak in. So I hope this will be of some use to folks just looking for Ireland travel info.

      One more thing before I get started. Please bear with me as it may take me a long time to finish this. I've been known to take as long as three months to finish a trip report! But I have always finished them. So if I go a week or two without writing anything, it doesn't mean I won't be back! (I leave it to you to judge whether that's a good thing! :-D)

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