The folks in the B&B told us to stay out of the lanes and to ride the hugely wide shoulder on the highway. We found just the opposite to work much better for us.

The people were great, the weather was nice during the day (early June) but the B&Bs had turned off their heat for the season and the nights in the stone lodgings were quite cold.

The landscape and sky were beautiful. It only rained one day for about fifteen minutes.

We did an unsupported tour and stayed in B&Bs with no previous reservations. Each morning the B&B folks would just call someone they knew who owned a B&B a few towns away and they'd set us up with a place to stay.

We loved Ireland - but because we only choose to spend the money for a trip to Europe about once every five years - we go to other places - just to see more of the world. If we could afford to go every year - we'd certainly go back again.