Travel eGuide: Ireland: Discover a charming country, full of history and mystery!

By Cristina Rebiere and Olivier Rebiere

Wanna have an evergreen travel experience?
Welcome to Ireland, the territory of history and mysteries!

• • Do you think you know all about cottages, Irish castles and Saint Patrick?
  
  

• • Dublin, the capital, has nothing more to hide because you are a true Leprechaun? You bet!
  
  

• • Our Travel eGuide will definitely change your mind.
  
  

• • Discover this country at your own pace and browse by photos, places or hobbies :-)
  
  

We have been traveling all around the world since our studenthood and have visited more than 45 countries so far. We love to find convenient and affordable travel solutions in order to maximize our touristic budget and discover hidden treasures during the journey, just like you! We are happy to offer you a UDEMY COURSE included with our tips & tricks to travel without ruining yourself.

Prepare and live your holidays... differently!

In this innovative Travel eGuide, a vitaminized additive to other tourist guides, we will share with you our passion for travel and our discoveries made on the roads and towns of Ireland. Discover this marvellous country full of mysteries, gorgeous landscapes, beautiful monasteries and magnificent castles reminding history, picturesque and colourful villages full of live with welcoming people and a music that will charm your ears :-)
So, if you do not know where to spend the next holidays, why not pay a visit for a few days to this wonderful island? All its treasures are waiting for you!
With this responsive eGuide, use your smartphone or tablet without internet connection and browse throughout all the data, choosing one of the 3 intuitive methods available:

1. 1. By location: use a “classical” geographical display with high-resolution maps
   
   

1. 1. By photograph: pick-up one of the hundreds of photos and jump to the corresponding section
   
   

1. 1. By affinity or passion: tap on one of the colored icons illustrating your interests during a trip and get a list of the matching locations in Ireland!
   
   

What are you going to get from this Travel eGuide on Ireland?

• • 300+ pages of high quality content
  
  

• • 200+ photos
  
  

• • 31 touristic sections
  
  

• • 30+ high-quality pre-downloaded maps
  
  

• • special for tight budget
  
  

• • tested and validated trip
  
  

• • A gastronomy section for you to cook some Irish recipes back home :-)
  
  

• • A UDEMY COURSE to learn our proven tips & tricks to Travel freely without ruining yourself
  
  

What other people say about this course (2000+ students):

• • "I felt like the course was a fantastic refresher! Even though I've traveled before, usually within the US, and some of the tips and lectures seemed common sense to me, it has inspired me to begin my research again and reinvigorate me to experience the world. Thank you." - James Stewart
  
  

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Rebiere
• Release date: Apr 13, 2016

Cristina Rebiere

Courte biographie:Cristina Rebière est auteure de nombreux guides et livres. Elle a dirigé une maison d'édition, un parc d'aventures et mené à bien de nombreuses missions dans la fonction publique européenne. Elle est aussi spécialisée dans la formation continue.Ses origines:Après la Révolution roumaine, Cristina interrompt de brillantes études pour entrer à l'université en France où elle suit tout le cursus en faculté de droit et obtient une Maîtrise en Administration Économique et Sociale. D'abord chargée de communication dans un Institut Français en Allemagne, elle devient statisticienne à Bruxelles pour un bureau d'assistance de la Commission Européenne. De retour à Bucarest elle est successivement contrôleuse de gestion, directrice de maison d'édition, experte européenne puis professeure de français. En Roumanie elle fonde avec son mari une entreprise de team building puis le premier parc d'aventures jamais créé dans ce pays - construit de leurs mains - qui attirera des milliers de personnes, écoles et entreprises dans la pratique du sport et d'activités de cohésion en pleine nature. Avec son équipe, elle conçoit et construit des parcours d'escalade dans les arbres pour d'autres clients.Au rectorat de l'Académie de la Martinique, Cristina prend en charge la coordination de la Cellule Académique des Fonds Européens et de Coopération où elle accompagne les porteurs de projet dans le montage des dossiers, assure la formation en ingénierie de projet, gère un réseau de plus d'une soixantaine d'enseignants référents à l'ouverture internationale. Elle assure la gestion opérationnelle de plusieurs projets de coopération. Elle assure l'actualisation du site internet de la Délégation Académique aux Relations Internationales et à la Coopération.La pédagogie de Cristina Rebière est basée sur le pragmatisme et l'efficacité.Domaines de compétence:management de projet, voyage, marketing social de contenu, team building, formation initiale et continue, expertise en fonds européens, budgétisation, planification, productivité et stratégie, coaching, ingénierie financière, webmestre, statistiques, procédures, web intégration, conception graphique, communication, conception et construction de parcs d'aventure

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Authors

Welcome!

Hello!

Thank you for purchasing this eBook and welcome to your new " Travel eGuide: Ireland ". We hope it will help you discover this marvelous country full of mysteries, gorgeous landscapes, beautiful monasteries and magnificent castles reminding history, picturesque and colorful villages full of life with welcoming people and a music that will charm your ears!

This Travel eGuide proposes you an other approach of the journey, between a log book and a classic guide. You can discover hidden treasures and browse freely through all the pages.

We don't have a team like Lonely Planet or other big publish houses, so you are not going to find in this eGuide a large choice of accommodations, restaurants or shops. We share with you our travels, our experiences, our impressions. We hope that this will help you to discover new destinations and make you wish to visit them.

This eGuide works almost like a website, and does not need to be used along with an Internet connection (unless you want to access the "OpenStreetMap" and other hyperlinks that we provide throughout the book, in real time).

Depending on the capabilities of your eBook reader, you can enjoy zoom features on photos. You can also click on the hypertext links (or hyperlinks) underlined throughout the eGuide. We tried our best to make your reading experience as enjoyable as possible, despite the wide technology gaps between various reading systems.

Be sure that we will offer more interactive versions, as the formats and eBook readers should be standardized in the future!

Well, enough chatting. Let's go!

Sincerely,

Cristina & Olivier

Ireland - practical tips

Budget tips:

Flight tickets

Depending on your country of origin, the tips can be different to have cheaper flight tickets.

Here are some advice which apply, no matter where you are coming from.

Tips:

Buy your tickets in advance (3 months minimum) to get the best rates so you can choose the dates of your vacation. Look for promotions from different airlines.

Do not buy your tickets at once, but test the market first. Look for the airline companies which flies to Dublin ; see here. Another international airport is Cork.

Buy your tickets to one of these cities and then prepare your route or itinerary according to it.

Pay attention because the tickets prices may vary on every hour and without any logic. Consequently, record in a file on your computer the prices you have found for several days before making your decision. This way, you can compare and know immediately when you will have an opportunity not to be missed. You can save more than 200 €/ticket in this way.

If possible, avoid traveling at holiday times (Saint Patrick, Christmas, New Year, etc.) to get the cheapest price for your airline tickets. If you however wish to go during these periods, put your departure a few days before those events.

According to your departure point, try the following airline companies to have more chances to obtain the best rates: Aer Lingus, British Airways, Air Canada, German Wings, Lufthansa.

Best season to visit Ireland: if you do not like the cold, plan your travel in summer, but attention because the Irish people also have their school holidays and you risk to not find availability of the accommodation you would like. If you are not afraid of the cold I recommend you the spring, in April or May, because the nature is very beautiful and the temperatures, near 10-12°C, are quite bearable. In September and October the temperatures are softer, an average of 14-16°C.

Traveling in Ireland

Tips:

Acar rental is the most suitable way of getting around and discovering Ireland.

Pay attention: in Ireland you drive on the left side! Another important point: it is necessary to guarantee the car rental with a credit card. Make your reservation on the Internet because the price difference is big, even doubles, if you take the vehicle at the airport without prior reservation.

If you wish to rent a car arriving at Dublin airport, see here the car rentals there.

Speed limits:

Since 2005, Ireland passed from the imperial system of the United Kingdom and the United States to the metric system. The speed limits are the following ones : 

In town: 50 km/h 

Secondary roads (white panels): 80 km/h 

National roads (green panels): 100 km/h 

Highways: 120 km/h

Accommodation

You have plenty of choices in terms of accommodation. Everything depends on your budget and how many persons travel with you.

Tips:

If you travel with children the most attractive solution is the holidays rental, especially the cottages which have a lot of charm in this particular countryside and that allow you to live for a while an Irish life in a typical Irish way. The price of this kind of accommodation is cheaper than hotel rooms. However pay attention if you travel in another season than summer because heating is not usually included in the rental price. You will often have to pay in a rather strange and quite uncomfortable way: add coins of one or two euros in a separate electricity meter. Quite stressing especially during the night ;-)!

We rented a charming cottage in Ardfinnan, a small village in Tipperary County, in the South. We succeeded to visit all the country from there, while taking advantage of this cottage in the middle of a meadow, surrounded by cows, grazing quietly. We paid 290 euros for 9 days.

Photo : Our charming cottage in Ardfinnan

If you wish find charming cottages to rent in Ireland here are some useful websites: http://www.cottages-ireland.com/, http://www.rentacottage.ie/ et http://www.irishcottageholidays.com/.

Another kind of accommodation we had tried is the Bed & Breakfast in Connemarra (Clifden). It is more expensive that a cottage rental, but it's true that it also has a lot of charm. I adored their Irish breakfast, and also the decorations of the rooms and of the house. That made me thinking of sleeping in a dolly house :-).

Food & gastronomy

The Irish cuisine often consists of traditional dishes, with potatoes and meat. Fish and seafood are not a part of the traditional cooking, but begin little by little to stand out in the modern gastronomy. You will find oysters, salmon and cod, even shrimps in certain dishes. The breakfast is copious with eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, beans, mushrooms and porridge. You can drink orange juice, coffee or tea. If you wish to cook or try some typical, copious and for certain, really delicious, recipes that I have tested and even cooked for you, see the section « Gastronomy » .

You can also eat in the pubs and have a good beer, as the famous Guinness or Beamish, Smithwick's, Murphy, etc.

Another drink that is famous abroad is the Irish coffee, a coffee-based cocktail, with sugar, whisky and cream. This drink was invented by Joseph Sheridan in 1930, in Foynes in Ireland, especially to warm the servicemen of the transatlantic flights in seaplane - they were arriving cooled and their only wish was to drink a hot and invigorating drink.

If you feel like eating to the restaurant in Ireland without ruining yourselves, the menu Early Bird is made for you! Most of the good restaurants propose a menu at preferential rate, the Early Bird, for diner week-time and at certain hours (usually between 6 p.m and 7 p.m.). The pubs also are a good choice for their prices: you can drink an Irish beer savoring some typical local dishes as fish and chips, Irish stew, crab, fried mussels, bacon and cabbage or some other delicious things that you can discover in the Gastronomy section.

Another way of discovering the Irish gastronomy is by visiting one of the farmers markets that