Our UK - Ireland Road Trip - June 2024
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NJ Boardwalk homeOur family's trip to London to see the NY Mets play the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday June 9th and then head over to Ireland (Northern and the Republic) for a week+ "road trip" around the Emerald Isle was an amazing experience for us. I hope I am able to give a sense for our experience thru the folowing interactive "timeline" maps and photos of our trek.
Our initial "planning page" is here
If interested, as you browse this page, following are a couple of my recent Irish song playlists you can listen to, you will need a Spotify ID to listen to either:
- mostly Celtic or Celtic Influenced "rock" music playlist I curated in 2023, inspired by Larry Kirwan's Celtic Crush on SiriusXM's the Loft channel.
- Celtic Twilight is more (not all) Irish, Scottish, British, "traditional" music focused that's currently under construction.
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before the real stuff: I used Google locations services to build the timelines and generate the "maps." Google imposes a 10 "layer" limit when creating maps and I had 12-13 days of timelines so it was a bit challenging to create single map of the road trip(I did it in 2 maps). |
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below: - Click on the icon on left to show
the sidebar with location details
- Click on the 4 corners in top
right to open tab with larger map
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For all photo albums below: - Click on "Album name" to open flickr page for album |
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On the right are the 2 "timeline" maps showing the complete road trip to give a sense for the overall journey. The top maps shows London to Belfast and bottom one shows from Belfast through Dublin. You will definitely need to zoom and move around. |
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The rest of
this page gives a day by day view of the "road trip"
via the interactive maps on the left and photo's I
took using my Samsung S24+ phone. (As of this writing, I still have some description and name clean-up to do.) |
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6/6 - 6/7 London -
(day one with 5 hr time change):
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6/8 day 2: Explore London: Hop-on/hop-off bus tour (Pete visit Urgent care) |
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6/9: Morning explore London, Afternoon Mets vs Phillies |
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6/10: Fly to Belfast, pick-up the rental car and do the Black Taxi Politcal Murals Tour: |
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6/11 - Drove from Belfast to Derry Stopping at:
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and the Dark Hedges |
  
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once in Derry, toured the Derry Walls. |
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6/12 drove from Derry to Kilcar, county Donegal |
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Stopping at Horn Head -> |
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Visit the Slieve League -> |
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6/13 - drove from Kilcar down to Enniscrone/Rathglass County Sligo Stopping to:
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6/14 drove
from
Enniscrone/Rathglass
County Sligo to Galway Stopping at the Cliffs of Moher on the way |
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6/15 Drove
from Galway over to near Blarney, Count Cork by way
of:
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6/16 -
headed up to Dublin but not before visiting:
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While in Dublin (6/16
& 6/17), we roamed a bit to see, in not
particular order:
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6/18 - travel home |
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