Program 632: Galway; A Week in Ireland; Brittany

We'll help you start your travel plans for when the pandemic is behind us with an all-Celtic hour. Tour guides from Ireland offer insider advice for visiting Galway and the west of Ireland, and for planning a week's itinerary to the Emerald Isle. We'll also pop over to the Celtic corner of France to hear what makes Brittany a special destination to visit.

• Pascal Fitzpatrick, tour guide and proprietor of Fitzpatrick's Coaches for Hire, County Monaghan, Ireland
• Stephen McPhilemy, Irish tour guide and hotelier
• Paul Corken, tour guide from Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Kieran O'Hare, Ireland tour guide and musician
• Patrick Vidal, tour guide from Brittany, France

• Requirements of the Irish government for anyone traveling to Ireland, as of the time of this broadcast, include an immediate 14-day quarantine on arrival, due to severe levels of Covid infection.  
• Wikipedia has a variety of information about Galway and the surrounding attractions in the west of Ireland.
• Pascal Fitzpatrick manages the family-run Fitzpatrick Coaches tour bus for hire company in County Monaghan.
• Stephen McPhilemy operates the Milltown House B&B on the Dingle Harbour in the Republic of Ireland, and is a partner in the Hotel Oberland in Lauterbrunen, in the Swiss Alps. He now also posts videos on his own YouTube channel.
• The EPIC Genealogical Office and Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin has a list of family history resources in Ireland and in Northern Ireland. 
• Paul Corken lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland, and specializes in tour guiding in his hometown of Belfast.
• Kieran O'Hare and his wife Liz Knowles are two-thirds of the traditional Irish trio Open The Door for Three.
• Barry Moloney conducts walking tours of historic Kinsale in County Cork.
• The Rick Steves online travel guide to Brittany, France.
• French tour guide Patrick Vidal is based in Brittany.
• The GR-34 hiking route follows the entire coastline of Brittany.