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We will be traveling to Ireland in July 2017. We will be there for 2 weeks and have a car. Our plans are to travel the entire island, ferry over to Wales and Scotland. Are there any caches that are a must get? Suggestions for travel? We are thinking about renting a personal WIFI to carry with us as well.

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We will be traveling to Ireland in July 2017. We will be there for 2 weeks and have a car. Our plans are to travel the entire island, ferry over to Wales and Scotland. Are there any caches that are a must get? Suggestions for travel? We are thinking about renting a personal WIFI to carry with us as well.

 

It largely depends on what you like to find. A good place to start is the lists of the most favourited caches by type, and we've got challenge caches that tell you (and then if you really push it and get them all you can you can log the challenge too) GC4RXC2 will give you the current Unknown for Dublin, GC4M87N is the Multi list, and the overall top 20 is here. Ireland's Top 10 is here. You can treat these as an easy way of finding what other people have enjoyed finding. Have a look and see what takes your fancy!

 

Recommendations also depend on whether all of your party are cachers, and whether you're all equally fit. We've got plenty of 1/1 park and grabs, but we've also got a fair amount of perilous stuff involving boats and climbing gear.

 

I don't know what you mean by "renting a personal WIFI", but we have pretty good mobile network coverage. Owning a mobile works a bit differently here to the US - we don't need to lock into a contract. Pay As You Go is a prepay system where you get a month's service at a time, no strings. If you have a smartphone, bring it with you and go into any mobile phone store. They'll set you up with a SIM card - a number, basically, and a call and data plan. My current plan costs about Eu20 a month for calls and 3gb of data, but there's plenty of choice. Then at the end of the holiday you remove the card and forget about it. No bills, no rental contract, nothing. And you have a bonus local phone number for any calls you need to make here.

 

You mention Wales and England - as of now, they're still in the EU, and the EU is due to abolish mobile roaming charges in July. It's possible that you might be able to get a Pay As You Go SIM in the first country you visit and then use it for the whole of your trip in all of the countries at no extra charge, but I'm not sure.

 

If you do need a separate UK SIM, then getting one is as simple and cheap as here.

 

If you're planning to drive into Northern Ireland (and I recommend you do - there's fantastic caching up there), let your rental company know. There may be an additional charge on the rental - this varies from one rental company to another.

 

Organise caching events during your stay - we love them! And it's a great way to meet the locals and get local advice.

 

If you're on FB, the Irish geocaching community has a very active group there - check it out!

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We will be traveling to Ireland in July 2017. We will be there for 2 weeks and have a car. Our plans are to travel the entire island, ferry over to Wales and Scotland. Are there any caches that are a must get? Suggestions for travel? We are thinking about renting a personal WIFI to carry with us as well.

 

It largely depends on what you like to find. A good place to start is the lists of the most favourited caches by type, and we've got challenge caches that tell you (and then if you really push it and get them all you can you can log the challenge too) GC4RXC2 will give you the current Unknown for Dublin, GC4M87N is the Multi list, and the overall top 20 is here. Ireland's Top 10 is here. You can treat these as an easy way of finding what other people have enjoyed finding. Have a look and see what takes your fancy!

 

Recommendations also depend on whether all of your party are cachers, and whether you're all equally fit. We've got plenty of 1/1 park and grabs, but we've also got a fair amount of perilous stuff involving boats and climbing gear.

 

I don't know what you mean by "renting a personal WIFI", but we have pretty good mobile network coverage. Owning a mobile works a bit differently here to the US - we don't need to lock into a contract. Pay As You Go is a prepay system where you get a month's service at a time, no strings. If you have a smartphone, bring it with you and go into any mobile phone store. They'll set you up with a SIM card - a number, basically, and a call and data plan. My current plan costs about Eu20 a month for calls and 3gb of data, but there's plenty of choice. Then at the end of the holiday you remove the card and forget about it. No bills, no rental contract, nothing. And you have a bonus local phone number for any calls you need to make here.

 

You mention Wales and England - as of now, they're still in the EU, and the EU is due to abolish mobile roaming charges in July. It's possible that you might be able to get a Pay As You Go SIM in the first country you visit and then use it for the whole of your trip in all of the countries at no extra charge, but I'm not sure.

 

If you do need a separate UK SIM, then getting one is as simple and cheap as here.

 

If you're planning to drive into Northern Ireland (and I recommend you do - there's fantastic caching up there), let your rental company know. There may be an additional charge on the rental - this varies from one rental company to another.

 

Organise caching events during your stay - we love them! And it's a great way to meet the locals and get local advice.

 

If you're on FB, the Irish geocaching community has a very active group there - check it out!

Thank you so much for all of this information! We will be flying into Shannon, driving through Northern Ireland then over to Scotland and Wales and back to finish Ireland. The SIM card idea is great! We were thinking a personal wifi spot - its a mobile wifi that you can use without being connected to a physical address in country would be a good choice because we could connect computers and phones via wifi to run pocket queries, get maps etc. We will look into the SIM card route. If you have suggestions on good places to have events, we would LOVE to host some. It is really cool to meet other cachers.

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Thank you so much for all of this information! We will be flying into Shannon, driving through Northern Ireland then over to Scotland and Wales and back to finish Ireland. The SIM card idea is great! We were thinking a personal wifi spot - its a mobile wifi that you can use without being connected to a physical address in country would be a good choice because we could connect computers and phones via wifi to run pocket queries, get maps etc. We will look into the SIM card route. If you have suggestions on good places to have events, we would LOVE to host some. It is really cool to meet other cachers.

If you're going to drive from Scotland to Wales then I'd certainly suggest a Virtual at Gretna Green - an excellent stopping off point on the journey with a massive load of cheese thrown in as well.

 

Should you be planning on heading to Edinburgh for a day or so (and you should in general) then the One o'clock gun cache is excellent - although it's a bit of a walk up and down hilly bits.

Other than that, it's a case of figuring out what you want to see and then what caches are nearby. I enjoyed a spot of walking along Hadrians Wall last summer and found a few caches along the way for example. I'm sure there must be cool stuff near the castles in North Wales as well.

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Thank you so much for all of this information! We will be flying into Shannon, driving through Northern Ireland then over to Scotland and Wales and back to finish Ireland. The SIM card idea is great! We were thinking a personal wifi spot - its a mobile wifi that you can use without being connected to a physical address in country would be a good choice because we could connect computers and phones via wifi to run pocket queries, get maps etc. We will look into the SIM card route. If you have suggestions on good places to have events, we would LOVE to host some. It is really cool to meet other cachers.

If you're going to drive from Scotland to Wales then I'd certainly suggest a Virtual at Gretna Green - an excellent stopping off point on the journey with a massive load of cheese thrown in as well.

 

Should you be planning on heading to Edinburgh for a day or so (and you should in general) then the One o'clock gun cache is excellent - although it's a bit of a walk up and down hilly bits.

Other than that, it's a case of figuring out what you want to see and then what caches are nearby. I enjoyed a spot of walking along Hadrians Wall last summer and found a few caches along the way for example. I'm sure there must be cool stuff near the castles in North Wales as well.

Thank you so much! I am really enjoying reading people's posts and getting more ideas for this exciting trip.

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