Adams & Butler - Luxury Travel Experts
Offer
Special Winter Offer - December 2009 - April 2010
8 days from
EUR 799 per person sharing including admissions and a self drive car
To Book Tel +353-1-2889355 Canada & US Toll Free 1-800-8945712 Email ireland@irishluxury.com
Day 1 Arrive Dublin Airport where you will pick up your car. Familiarisation tour of the city with a visit to the haunted Malahide Castle.
Visit St Patrick's Cathedral, Trinity College and St Michan's Church. Ghostly walking tour of Dublin this evening. With the blind and aging Zozimus as your storyteller, he will guide you down the austere alleyways. But BEWARE; the ghost of Zozimus may wake and disturb other colourful characters of Dublin's yesterdays. You'll visit the scenes of great escapes, murders and mythical happenings within the medieval city. Bed & Breakfast beside the Phoenix park at the Georgian Ashbrook House or in the beautiful Victorian Marble Hall, 20 minutes walk of the city centre. B&B
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Day 2 Tour via Powerscourt House and the sacred valley of Glendalough, where the ghost of Kathleen floats beneath the choppy waters of the lake beside St Kevin's 6th Century monastery, into the wild Wicklow mountains. On to Healthfield Manor, or, Killane Castle Wexford, historic and potentially haunted houses. B&B
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Day 3 The ghosts of Wexford - a tour of the fabled Huntington Castle, the most haunted inhabited house in Ireland. Then through the romantic Black Lands of The Duffry to Kilmokea, a beautiful garden haunted by the benign ghost of its creator, followed by a visit to Tintern Abbey, famous for its Grey Lady. Overnight as before . B&B
Day 4 Through Inistioge, dominated by the gaunt shell of Woodstock House, then on to the city of Kilkenny, with its phantom witches and narrow medieval streets. On the way you can visit some of the craft workers studios for which the area is so famous - potters, glass blowers and the like. Stay in the splendour of the 19th century a suitably haunted manor house - such as Ardmore, beside Kinnitty's haunted churchyard. B&B
Day 5 In the morning visit Leap Castle, once the most haunted inhabited castle in Ireland, home of one of Ireland's greatest traditional musicians. On to Birr Castle, with the ticking clock, where you'll tour the glorious gardens. Damer House in Roscrea will be your next stop, where the echo of shots still ring out in the execution yard and 18th century gentlemen are seen floating around the great apartments. On via Ballaghmore Castle, with its tales of Leprechaun gold and back to Kinnitty or Birr for the night. B&B
Day 6 Your journey will take you through some delightful countryside. You will visit the ghosts of Anne Boleyn's sisters at the ruined Clonony Castle, the ancient monastic site of Clonmacnoise, and finally to Knockbrack Grange beside Lough Crew House, a thrice cursed mansion in the shadow of the witches' hill. B&B
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Day 7 Tour through the Royal County of Meath to Newgrange (prehistoric burial site) early arrival in Dublin to give time for a little shopping. Finish the day on the world's only Ghostbus, as you are taken deep into the dark romance of a city of gaslight ghosts and chilling legends. You'll experience Body-snatching in St. Kevin's Graveyard, Visit the Haunted Steps & discover Dracula's Dublin.
Day 8 Depart Dublin
Rate include 7 nights accommodation with private bathroom, full Irish breakfast every morning, admission to all sites mentioned, & participation in the ghostly walking tour of Dublin.
Adams & Butler - Luxury Travel Experts
To Book Tel +353-1-2889355 Canada & US Toll Free 1-800-8945712 Email
ireland@irishluxury.com
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Sepia Images are from Simon Marsden - if you like ghosts you will love his site and books www.marsdenarchive.com
