Meeting at airport with guide speaking group language and coach driver. Transfer to accommodation assigned to group for check-in, welcome Irish coffee, dinner and overnight stay in Dublin or vicinity.

Morning tour of Dublin, including its Georgian squares, famous for their architecture and doors, and visit to Trinity College, where the “Book of Kells”, a 9th-century illuminated manuscript can be seen, together with the Long Room and its 200,000 books. Tour continues to St Patrick’s Cathedral, one of Ireland’s largest, with stop for photos. Before returning to the city centre the tour passes Dublin’s other cathedral, Christ Church, built in the 1100s by the Anglo-Normans. After passing through O’Connell Street and Parnell Square the tour continues to Phoenix Park. Departure in afternoon for County Wicklow, known as the “Garden of Ireland”, stopping to visit Glendalough, set in a lonely valley with two lakes, with a monastery founded in the 6th century by St Kevin, and with all its fascination still intact. Continuation to the village of Avoca, stopping briefly at Avoca Handweavers, Ireland’s oldest surviving wool mill and a producer of woollen goods since at least 1723. Return to Dublin. Dinner and overnight stay in Dublin or vicinity.

Tour of Dublin continues after breakfast in hotel with visit to the Guinness Storehouse, with displays showing how this classic beer was born and how its is brewed, and possibility of drinking a pint of it at the end of the visit in the Gravity Bar on the top floor of the building in the form of a giant pint glass of Guinness, giving a full panoramic view of Dublin and its bay. Tour continues with a visit to the National Museum (closed on Mondays) followed by departure for Galway, with visit on the way to Locke’s Distillery in Kilbeggan, with opportunity to taste this famous whiskey in the old distillery’s own pub. Arrival at Galway in late afternoon, with short panoramic tour of city by coach and check-in at hotel for dinner and overnight stay in Galway or vicinity.

Departure for Connemara, an area of limitless beauty where nature reigns supreme and the light and landscape change constantly in a succession of woods, lakes, golden beaches and gently rolling hills. Visit to Kylemore Abbey, originally a Victorian mansion but now a Benedictine abbey and boarding school, set in one of Ireland’s loveliest panoramas. Dinner and overnight stay in Galway or vicinity.

Irish breakfast and departure for Ardrahan in County Galway, with visit to Rathbaun Farm, where guests are welcomed with Irish scones and shown how sheep are taken out to graze with the sheepdog, and how they are sheared, with lamb feeding as well from March to October. Departure for The Burren, a fascinating area with unmistakable panoramas, where flowing water has created a series of underground caves to give the landscape an unusual and almost lunar appearance. Stop at the majestic Cliffs of Moher. Arrival at accommodation booked in County Clare/Limerick for dinner and overnight stay.

Departure in the morning for visit to Kilkenny, a town on the banks of the River Nore with an interesting mediaeval past to be seen in buildings and winding alleys, and with elegant Georgian houses lining its streets. Visit to Kilkenny Castle, originally built in the 12th century by the Anglo-Normans and extensively modified over the centuries. Continuation in afternoon to Dublin, with free time if made possible by travel times. Dinner and overnight stay in Dublin or vicinity.

Transfer to airport after breakfast and flight check-in for trip home.