Ten days in Ireland, mostly on the roads a coach can't take.

I've been to Ireland twice. Once as a college student on a semester abroad, more than thirty years ago now, and once about seven years ago for a week that actually taught me something about the country.

A lot changed in between. There are highways now that make getting between cities easy. The parts of the drive that aren't on them look exactly the way I remembered.

Ten days is the right length for a first real look. Long enough to get out of Dublin and onto the west coast, short enough that you aren't living in the car. You'll be driving for most of it, and that's on purpose. The parts of Ireland worth the flight are not on a coach route.

This is a sample, which means it's the shape of a journey rather than yours. If Kerry matters more to you than Mayo, that's a different itinerary and a good one. The version I'd build starts with a conversation about who's going and what's actually going on in your life, and it probably looks different from this by the end of it. The properties I book carry advisor benefits: room upgrades where there's inventory, breakfast, early check-in and late check-out, and property credits at several of them. Contracted benefits, not promotions, and not available booking direct.

For a journey like this one there's no planning fee. Hotels and suppliers pay me. If a build gets complex enough that a fee applies, I'll tell you before we start.