Hello,

I would appreciate any advice you could give me. My daughter (22 years old) and I are planning to visit Ireland this June 2013. We will have between 10-12 days. I would like to visit another country while away. We went to Paris a few years ago and I now realize we should have stayed and visited another country. We did not plan well.

We have decided we want to go to Ireland, what would be a sufficient number of days to spend in Ireland and where should we visit? I have always wanted to go to London and was wondering how easy it is to go from Ireland to London? How many days should we allow for London and what should we visit?

Any other suggestions? Is there a country that we should visit besides London?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

London is VERY easy to reach from several airports in Ireland. However - if you really want to visit more than a small bit of Ireland - it really takes 10 days to 2 weeks. Ireland is not a 'see fast' sort of place. Two or three days in Dublin and a week in the W/SW and your 12 days is gone (takes two days to travel to/from Ireland)

For a first visit to London I'd think 3 <u>full</u> days is an absolute minimum but 5 to 7 days would be much better.

If you can manage two full weeks - then you could manage 9 days in Ireland, 3 days in London, and the flights to/from.

If you only have 10-ish days - stick to one country.

And to clarify - that is from someone who LOVES London and only <i>likes</i> Dublin a bit.

Thank you, I know very little about either country. However, I didn't realize 9 days in Ireland. I will have to look into that further. We could manage 14 days.

"<i>I didn't realize 9 days in Ireland</i>"

That <i>entirely</i> depends on what you mean by "Ireland". If you just mean Dublin - 2or 3 days is all most anyone needs. But Dublin is not "Ireland". To see even just parts of the very scenic west/southwest takes a full week.

There is Dublin and then the rest of Ireland Dubs call anyone outside the M50 ring road a Culchie so you get the picture. Fly into Dublin for a couple of days and spend 6 days getting to Cork for your flight to London. This could be done getting the train/bus to Galway for a couple of days for a Connemara Tour or Cliffs of Moher Burren Tour, Maybe Inis Mor if the weather is right (you dont have time for all) then bus to Shannon and collect a rental or bus to Killarney for a couple of days, this gives the option of a Dingle or Ring of Kerry tour, not both. Car from Shannon would let you drive round Dingle on the way to Killarney. Then the last Irish leg to Cork airport wishing you had spent a lot more time here.