Touring Scotland and Ireland

We took a wonderful vacation through Scotland and Ireland with Globus tours last month.  This two week trip with our travel buddies RJ and JL took us through 5 countries (Scotland, a little of England and Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland).  We did not know if we would like a land tour (moving to a different city almost every day and different hotels (different beds—for us who like our creature comforts).  But it was a great trip.  We saw many sights; fell in love with the Irish and Scottish people.  They were very warm and friendly.  Our tour guide Helen and driver Paul were true professionals; they took excellent care of us and showed us so many interesting places.  We would recommend a land tour with Globus.  If you want to check out our itinerary, see http://www.globusjourneys.com/Product.aspx?trip=4GD

What do you think of when you hear of Ireland and Scotland?  Castles.  We saw several. We toured Balmoral (The Scottish home of the British royal family).

 

We saw Edinburgh castle/fort on the tallest hill of Edinburgh. This huge castle was used as a city/fort and still has cannons in place. 

We walked on St. Andrew’s Golf Course.  St Andrews may be the world’s most famous golf course and is known as the “home of golf”.  We weren’t able to get tee times to play but we had lunch at the club house. 

We also saw beautiful rolling hills and sea shore sights such as the Cliffs of Moher (shown here). 

  We saw sheep (even pink sheep as one farmer had died his sheep pink for a local festival).  Our tour director said that’s the first time she ever saw pink sheep (a first for us also).    

During our two week tour, I took over 680 pictures.  I cannot begin to share all our pictures but am sharing these few.  Our Globus tour exceeded our expectations; we enjoyed our trip and would recommend it highly.