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| Check out some of the magical moments from previous tours. |
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| Ride the whole coast of Ireland in ten days!. |
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| Our west of Ireland
tours take in some of the smallest, most remote, most scenic
but most importantly, safe roads in the country. |
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| We use proper aluminium touring
bikes with front end and rear bags for your stuff for the
day, camera,
wallet, SUN LOTION! Plus all our tours have their own support
vehicles. |
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| Here's a few movies we suggest
you watch before coming to Ireland.... |
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| We have so many great pictures
from ours tours, here's your chance to use them as a screen
saver! |
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| Celtic Trails Photo Gallery
2001 |
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My two favourite Tucsonians! Tim & Shannon Fennie.
(Now I'm in trouble with all my other favourite Tucsonians…).
I took this shot on the first day of their first tour
with us on the way to the Bog Road, Connemara. Clifden
is our destination today, and Foyle's hotel our resting
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4 trouble-makers,
about to set off on another adventure. I took this shot
on a 'fresh' Thursday morning in April 2001 and it shows
4 friends from Tucson, Arizona about to leave that shabby
place in the back ground. Today's spin is unique in that
the roads are unlike anything else on our tours, and
certainly unlike anything these fine folks from Tucson
have every experienced. |
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Now what we have here
is one Mr. Hubber, (self christened, Brian
O'Huber by the end of the week) posing in front
of one of our tour Jeeps. I took this shot just ater
breakfast on a nice Wednesday morning and I don't know
what on earth he's grinning at. He has a hard spin ahead
of him today… |
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Here we see one of
our guests, Jennifer from Colorado checking up on local
news outside a tweed shop in Adara, county Donegal, June
2001. There are many craft shops just like this one on
all our tours, some are a wee bit off the beat and track
so we always let people who are interested know where
they are. Doesn't look like Jen's in too much of a hurry
here, does it?! |
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On our three tours we
cover in total, about 750 miles. This is one of my favourite
spots. And this shot is one of my favourite shots. Not
just because of the undeniable beauty of the mountains,
the coastline, the ocean and the ladies in the foreground.
It just sums up a typical Celtic Trails day - lovely
scenery, tiny, practically traffic free roads, and stone
walls to plonk our arses on. Nicolle, the biggest trouble
maker of that wee gang there will remember the day the
Elvis impersonator arrived in the pub in Quin. Words
to describe just how funny it was would simply be unprintable. |
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Here we have what
we in Ireland call a, 'dual - cabbageway'. This is a
road that's so small and so lightly travelled that grass
starts to grow up the middle of it. You have your carriageways,
we have our cabbageways! I took this shot, on our Mayo/Sligo
tour in June of 2001. |
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Here we have a familiar sight - Me, (on the right)
with a few of my guests, at a junction somewhere in
the wilds of Connemara or Mayo or Sligo, completely
lost, (just kidding) and trying to figure out how in
the name of all that's good and holy we are supposed
to get to where we're supposed to be….
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A lovely picture of Jonathan taken
on the Bog Road Clare/Galway in September of '2001. The
Bog Road is a nine mile stretch of road, (if one could
even call it a road. More like a path). Anyway, this
stretch of road winds its way over the bogs and is just
an absolute delight to ride. The amount of pictures we
have taken on this road over the past 6 years is just
wild. But you can see why, check out the scene! |
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I like this shot because
it's quite indicative of a typical evening scene in Donegal
in April/May, (picture was taken in May 2001). I just
love this shot. The fact that Mike in the photo has been
with us three times say athing or two about our tours. |
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'Ah now Doctor Jim, we
said it was going to a a thrilling boat ride, and it
was, but is the helmet nescasary...?!' Dr.
Jim, from New Orleans features in a couple of places
on this website. Having done all three of our tours,
and bringing his son and two grandsons we felt he had
to. Nothing to do with him being so photogenic'. |
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