The Brobdingnagian Bards Vacation Tour of Ireland for 2008 is now online. Here are some of the quick details, but read the whole thing... It's amazing!

• Transport by luxury motorcoach with a driver/guide (one man) for 8 days.
• ALL meals included.
• Hotel accommodation based on twin bedded rooms with private bath as listed opposite for 8 nights.
• Full breakfasts (8).
• Table d'hôte dinners (7). (advance special diet requests, no problem)
• Dinner and traditional ceili entertainment at Kiloran's Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
• Passage on the Tarbert Ferry across the Shannon
• Visits and any admission fees to:
  • Durrow Castle, Co. Laoise (morning coffee stop)
  • Geoff's Pub, Castlemagner, Co. Cork (lunch and music stop)
  • Gougane Barra monastic site and forest park
  • Bantry Bay House, Gardens & Armarda Center
  • Music evening in Kenmare, Co. Kerry
  • Ancient sites of Beara Peninsula, stone circles and ogham stone
  • Brigit's Garden, Co. Galway (make your own Brigid's Cross here)
  • Hennigan's Heritage Center, Co. Mayo with storyteller Tom Hennigan
  • Carrowkeel Cairns, 6000 year old passage cairns
  • Shuttle to take you up the mountains to the Carrowkeel cairns
  • Music and more from Carrowcrory Traditional Cottage
  • Shannon Pot (beautiful spring well source of the Shannon River
  • Folk Crafts, Drama and Dance Workshop by Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh
  • Tara Hill, Co. Meath
• Hotel porterage, service charges and Irish government VAT taxes.

Plus, you're gonna have lots of music from the Brobdingnagian Bards.

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