Honeymoon Planning Part 2

So, since we had narrowed down the location to Ireland, the next step was figuring out what we wanted to do. As you can probably guess, this was quite the "challenge" because there is just not enough to do or see in Ireland, right?!? When traveling, Scott and I have the philosophy that we can have a general plan, but if one person wants to see something or the other person wants to go somewhere, the plan can definitely deviate.

We knew we were flying into Dublin and we were renting a car there. We also strategically planned our Honeymoon to arrive in Dublin on March 16th so we could spend St. Patrick's Day in the city centre on the 17th (we thought that would be a good start to our trip)! So, each night we spent some time researching different places to go. We found that simple Google searches for "Top 10 Ireland Must Sees" were effective and gave us a wide range of sites and blogs to read. We also kept track of articles we found in travel magazines and my parents helped cut out things they found as well (I know, so old school). We ended up just creating our own Google Map page and plotting out the different cities, sites, restaurants, pubs, etc. we were interested in visiting and our path started to form.

The general idea was to start in Dublin and stay there for a few days (we thought a "St. Patrick's Recovery Day" was a good idea). From Dublin we would head south into the mountains to enjoy some hiking, and then the plan was to cut across west to the coast to explore The Cliffs of Moher and The Burren. From The Cliffs, we would then go north through some of the coastal towns and then cut northeast all the way into Northern Ireland to The Giant's Causeway. From The Causeway we would drive southeast to Belfast and then south back to Dublin.

Once we had "the route" our "just wing it" attitude really started showing. We decided to plan out the first 5 days and then just "go from there." If we wanted to stay somewhere longer or go one route west, for example, versus another, we would just take each day as it happened...

 So many options...where to start?!