This year I’ll be back in Ireland for walking. This time it’s gonna be a tour without a guide, but the tour itself has been organized by a company named Hillwalk Ireland. On their homepage http://www.hillwalkireland.com you can choose various tours and different levels of difficulty and they take care of
- booking the Bed & Breakfasts
- prepare maps and travel information
- luggage transfer between the walks
Now that it’s close to leaving I can say that so far the work of those fine people has been awesome. The package with our information that arrived is very detailed and they have so far been extremely nice and helpful with everything. I’m really looking forward in doing this tour.
We’ll be doing a six day tour through Connemara starting on 25th June.
The walks will be as follows:
- Oughterard – Maam Cross, 21 km, Ascent 120 m
- Maam Valley – Lough Inagh, 15 km, Ascent 310 m
- Lough Inagh – Leenane, 15 km , Ascent 100 m
- Leenane to Drummin, 21 km, Ascent 560 m
- Drummin to Westport, 19 km, Ascent 280 m
I’ve checked the B & Bs that were booked for us and so far they all look extremely cosy and nice…
- Woodlands B & B in Oughterard
- Tiernakill Farmhouse B & B
- Lough Inagh Lodge Hotel (we upgraded ..)
- Portfinn Lodge B & B
- Moher House B & B
- Altamont House B & B
I’ll try to report from the road, but doubt I’ll have WIFI everywhere…so we’ll see (I know the attached picture is Cliffs of Moher…I’ll replace that after the trip trough the best shot of the tour)