Day trip with Rail Tours Ireland
While I would have preferred to do this tour on our own, I didn't want to drive by myself after my husband left for home. For people not wanting to drive, Rail Tours Ireland has a lot of daytrips that leave from Dublin to places all over Ireland. Although I could have easily found more to do in Dublin, I decided to spend my last day in Dublin outside of Dublin visiting County Clare. It made for a very long day, I started from the hotel at 5:40 am to catch a Luas tram to Heuston Station where we boarded a train for Limerick at 7am. The tour goes through Limerick on the way to a 1 1/2 hour tour of Bunratty Castle, a stop for lunch at a pub in Doolin, an hour stop at the Cliffs of Moher, a 10 minute stop at the Burren and finally a little less than an hour in Galway before the train back to Dublin, arriving back at 20:55.The trains are comfortable and the group had reserved seats so that we...
