Saturday 15th September - Time to hit the road again. After a late breakfast, we headed off to pick up a car and then make our way to Cork for the night. We diverted of the main roads to check  Wicklow National Park. Unfortunately it was on the misty side and the photos didn't come out all that well but the scenery was quite spectacular.

Wicklow National Park

A view of Cork

Blarney Castle - To kiss the Blarney Stone you have to lay in your back on the mat and bend your head back and down. The stone is the slobbery looking rock at the base of the two hand rails

A quaint Irish village somewhere between Blarney and the Ring of Kerry

The Ring of Kerry is a tourist road around the Iveragh Peninsula south west Ireland - The scenery is spectacular.

Monday 17th September - The main attraction for today are the Cliff's of Moher. However, we got off to an early start and decided to check out the quaint town of Adare and Bunratty Castle and Folk Park on the way.

Adare Village

Bunratty Castle and Folk Park

The Cliffs of Moher

Tuesday 18th September - Nothing much was planned for the day we we have a few miles to cover to get to our next overnight stop. At the advice if Karen at the B&B we took a detour through the Burren National Park. This is a limestone rock region and the the site of some very old Celtic burial sites.

The Burren National Park

Some happy snaps from the car on the way north to Letterkenny

Our overnight accommodation (from the outside and the inside)

Wednesday 19th September - The Giants Causeway was the objective for today before driving onto Belfast. We travelled via Londonderry and the Causeway Costal Route for some more scenery.

Londonderry and some of the north coast scenery

Giants Causeway

Thursday 20th September - We planned to do the hop-on hop-off bus thing today but never got past the Titanic stuff at stops 3 & 4. The weather was pretty crappy so it all worked out fine.

On the bus, outside the new Titanic Exhibition and some pictures of the exhibits. The pictures of the cabins are for 1st Class, 2nd Class and 3rd Class

Outside the exhibition. The poles mark the outline of the two slipways on which the Titanic and sister ship Oceanic were built.

On the left is the Drawing Office where the plans for the titanic were drawn up and the right is the original Harland and Wolf head offices.

This is the Nordic - The tender boat which ferried the First Class passengers from the docks to the Titanic. It was recently moved from Paris where it was being used as a floating restaurant and is currently being restored and will become part of the exhibition.

The dry dock where Titanic underwent the final fit out and painting.

The huge gate at the opening of the dry dock - This is as close as one will getting to touching the hull of the Titanic - This gate was built at the same time as the hull using the same steel and manufacturing & riveting processes. The guide told us that the gate looks identical to most of the hull.