Doing an ickle tour - advice accepted

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Aladinsaneuk · #1 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:34 am

May 21st myself and a mate are off to Eire to go rambling and discovering the finer points of guiness quaffing....

So, we have a very loose itinary, we start in Rosslare and then have the week to explore.

We are thinking of riding the coast road round, up to Galway, then across to Dublin - has anyone done this and have any places that we should go and see?

(We are definitly heading to Tuam, hoping to catch up with a few people from that area)

anything else we should be aware of?

any good biker pubs that need to be visited?

Gio · #2 Post by **Gio** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:41 am

I don't know of a good route but I do know that another forum I belong to has quite a few Irish members and am sure they could help. If you want the web addy I'll pm it to you.

BTW its a BMW forum

Aladinsaneuk · #3 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:50 am

please do that - the chap i am going with has a hyawhatsit so I try to understand others who don't have a falco..... :)

xrphil · #4 Post by **xrphil** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 9:00 pm

I`m not that mad on Dublin, but Cork is a nice city and there are loads of places to go from there, went with my dad last spring (with hire car) down to Kinsale, then round coast cutting over to Bantry, and the ring of Kerry. really wished I was on my bike at times as there were some excellent roads, and not that many cars.
I don`t think you will have any of the UK biker pub problems, people tour there from all over Europe.
where ever you go the roads are clearer, and the craic is good

moletrap · #5 Post by **moletrap** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 1:47 pm

I've no idea about biking pubs or hotels, we went by car a couple of years back on a tour of the southwestern corner and had a great time.

Anywhere around the Dingle Bay area is lovely, friendly locals, great pubs. Quite expensive (beer, food and petrol) on the whole. While the roads are quite empty they're of pretty poor quality and it rains, all the time. Ireland's green for a reason!