Featured Touring Ireland May 2024

Today we start our tour of Ireland. Paul and I leave Cheshire this morning. Ferry tomorrow when we meet @andyc1 and then Mark the day after.

Update's as the trip unfolds..

 

@Wessa
Wish i was going with you. Hope the weather stays nice for you. But whatever you will have a great experience. Enjoy yourselves. Joe

 

Have a great trip @Wessa - I’m keen to do the Wild Atlantic Way, but very much doubt it’ll be this year

 

Have a great trip with good company.

Alfie

 

We’re going to Ireland on the bikes four weeks on Friday. 12 of us going this year. We’re staying fairly North as we only have four days. Looking forward to it. Staying in Carrickfergus, Dungloe, Leanane and Belfast for the last night.
Hope you have a great trip and stay dry .

 

Enjoy your trip!!!
I am waiting for your photos and impressions.

 

Ok guys and gals day one. Ride up from Cheshire to Stranraer, had a slight shower through the lakes (could not have predicted that lol), but the rest of the ride was in glorious sunshine.

Had a couple of pints before food.


Then back to our digs. Picture from the front of our digs.

 

@Wessa:
A good meal must be accompanied by a few drinks beforehand. -
You look like you want to solve a fundamental question. "Where should I start? Onion rings, chips or maybe the burger?"

 

@Markus that is my mate Paul, and you are correct he didn’t know where to start. . My meal was the crispy chicken, which was very nice.

 

@Wessa: Thanks Wessa. Everthing I wrote is then ment for Paul.

 

Enjoy your trip Wessa, I'm off to the South of France and Monte Carlo tomorrow. Early train. Hope you'll have a great time, you're in for a real treat.

 

Have a fantastic trip, @Wessa! I'm looking forward to seeing more photos and hearing all about your adventures.

 

I have shared a load of pics on the other place that shall not be mentioned. Sorry but it would take me hours to mess about resizing everything to put on here
Maybe @Havit could have a word with the owner about doing something about the tiny (by todays standards) size limit on pics here. It's doing this forum harm IMO. it was a great trip by the way!

 

Well, dang, @andyc1! @Havit, is this something that's possible for this forum? I am signed up for "the other" forum but can barely keep up with one (this one!) much less two. Glad you had a fantastic trip. I'm sure that @Vulpes is quite disappointed he wasn't with you guys.

 

Massively dissapointed, @Sandi T . The whole thing was initially my idea - it was to be a solo trip, but then @Wessa asked if he could join, and @andyc1 followed. Next was Mark, whom I met on our Scottish tour in 2019. So when my "incident" made it impossible for me to go, to say I was dissapointed is a huge understatement... We had videocalls beforehand, Andy put together all the daily routes (brilliant!), all ferries were booked... At least I still have all the routes.

Now hoping I’ll be fit enough in 3 weeks time to take the bikes to Northern Italy and tour the Dolomites for a fortnight with the mrs. like we did last year...

https://triumphmotorcycleforum.com/t/dolomites-2023/1826

 

Wow, I'm sure you're even more disappointed (if that's even possible) by missing the trip since it was initially your idea. But you do still have all the routes, thank goodness and can plan another venture. I've found that I often appreciate something even more when I've missed out on it previously. I've mentioned a "challenge" on our Utah trip earlier this month which meant missing the second half of the trip. I'll get that thread posted here soon to relay our adventures--and our MISadventures!

I really hope you heal fast and are able to ride with Mrs V (please tell her hello from me) into Italy and the Dolomites. Fingers crossed!

 

Ok home now and have had time to go through the photo's and to think about my trip. In summary I left Cheshire with my mate Paul and rode up to Scotland to get the ferry across to Larne, Northern Ireland. When we got off the ferry we met @andyc1 and rode up the east coast over the northern coast past the Giants Causeway, Port Rush around Derry and into the Republic at Letterkenny.

 

Great set of pictures, Steve!

 

Day 3. So if the first days riding was good, then day 3 was as good again. We the hotel at Letterkenny and rode north into the Glenveagh National Park and then made our way across to the west coast Atlantic Way, heading south. We continued through Donegal county past Donegal town and on down the Atlantic Way to Sligo. Our next overnight stop.