Gaz
We would love to see you.
Check out what you both want from the trip first, a weekend included would make travel easier for some of us but that depends on where you land...
Monday October 26th is a public holiday here and its also the mid term week so be careful of some travel arrangements to get into Ireland if you are planning on the following weekend. Week after is fine. Lots to do around Dublin if you only go that far, all depends on your interests.
We have lots of flights between here and UK to and from main and regional airports in UK [Manchester, Birmingham, London city, London Stansted, London Heathrow, London Luton, Liverpool, Bristol, Plymouth, East Midlands, Newcastle, more too like Glasgow, Edinburgh.....
www.aerlingus.comwww.ba.comwww.flybe.comwww.easyjet.comwww.ryanair.comTo Dublin [Jedi Girl, Ringfad, Curley, Sgmayhew, Niall]
Shannon [Avenger GT]
Galway [Reg, 88KE]
Waterford [Trapper, Electric Monk]
Belfast [Comberjohn, Dai, Markzz, CMcQ]
Cork [Corkboy, Pat O'D, Bjorn, RedRebelK, Cluain Si, Tom O'Leary, 92KK]
Derry/Londonderry
Knock/Mayo
We are scattered and ride time Cork Belfast is about 4 1/2 hours, Dublin for some of us is up to 2 1/2 hours.
Saturday meet ups have worked well for us so far, but no shortage of K riders to lead you astray at other times too.
Lots of options for travel, car hire can be cheap at that time
www.holidayautos.com is one I often use and its good to compare with the likes of Hertz and Avis who do also have some good deals. You may well have options of fly into one airport and drop off at another.
If you buy rail rambler tickets from outside Ireland
www.irishrail.ie you will find rail services between main cities.
We also have direct flights to Canaries so you might even save a travel leg. Be aware though that airlines within Europe charge for hold baggage unless its a long haul ticket booked through to your destination. Long haul BA, KLM, Emirates and Etihad will give long haul to Dublin/Cork/Shannon using Aer Lingus as travel partner which is fine.
Weather etc permitting we should be able to put you on a K and find you some bike gear if we know sizes in advance......I don't think we scared Bill off, even with a nice run up Sally Gap.
Now Born Again Eccentric needs another trip back to Ireland........wonder would this one work for him because the Norn Iron weekend doesn't.