Where's my magic wand?

Well, if only I could get my magic wand out of the shop, I could turn the 11 days that we HAVE on the road throughout Ireland into the 31 days we NEED. If only!

We took the notes from the really big paper map and transferred them (along with possible B&Bs) to a smaller, more manageable map. (Smaller and more manageable means you don't have to stand up reading the map tacked to the back of the door. It means you can sit, comfortably, on the couch and look at the map!) Then we started through the map, sketching a tentative itinerary. We got through the first week (March 13 - 17) and only hit those sights along the northern most part of the Republic. YIKES.... that would leave one week to hit the 4000 other sights in the west, south and east.... I don't think so.

And so... it's back to the drawing board! Or rather, the keyboard where I can find drive times between Point A and Point B; where we can record the VERY tentative itinerary and easily delete and add as whim (and travel time) dictate; and where we can look more info up via Google.

One thing I can mark off the list is Slieve League. Now, these are 900 foot cliffs, with a sheer drop to the Atlantic Ocean and that sounds incredibly spectacular to me, BUT, one website described the very narrow roads, winding up and down where at some point, one should not be concerned that they can't see the road in front of them, but instead only the horizon (what, are we airborn????) and another that talked about the sheer cliffs to one side of the road and the sheer drop (right into the Atlantic) on the other side of the road. I seemed to have driven a road something along those lines in Colorado once and that once was more than enough for my tastes. I'm not faint of heart when it comes to driving, but I'm not stupid either. So.... we'll save that sight for the next trip, go later in the spring and take a boat out to see it from the bottom up. It would make a better picture anyway, don't you think?

Time for supper. Gotta get the strength to tackle the tentative itinerary. (Maybe this is the Tentative Tour!)

More later.... Dawn