Travel Reference
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The best is, of course, only my opinion. But after spending more than half of my adult
life exploring and researching Europe, I've developed a sixth sense for what touches the
traveler's imagination. The places featured in this topic will give anyone the “gift of gab.”
Use this legend to help you navigate the maps in this topic.
Rick Steves' Ireland 2014
is a personal tour guide in your pocket. Better yet, it's actually
two tour guides in your pocket: The co-author of this guidebook is Pat O'Connor. As
you can tell from the lad's name, Pat has long had a travel passion for the Emerald Isle.
He's the Ireland specialist and senior Ireland tour guide at my company, Rick Steves'
Europe Through the Back Door. Together, Pat and I keep this topic up-to-date and accur-
ate (though for simplicity, from this point “we” will shed our respective egos and become
“I”).
