Hi Folks,

Welcome to our newly refurbished Web Site. First of all I want to publicly thank my son Gary for all the hard work he has done to get this up and running. He has been a tower of strength for me through this project. Once again, thanks a million Gary.

I also want to thank my brother Joseph who has also put in the hours to get this up and running.

This is of course my first attempt at Blogging?? so first of all I want to thank everyone who has travelled with us these past few years. It really has been a wonderful journey for me. I also want to thank Johnsmith from the bottom of my heart, through him, the journey began. I cannot remember all the people who showed us various degrees of kindness along the way, but thanks to the Hotel and B & B owners, the musicians who entertained us for the past few years

This year has been a pretty busy year for me. I have done 3 tours with Johnsmith, with one more to go. I have also done tours with The Rowan Brothers and Cosy Sheridan and would you believe a Ski Club from Maryland. I will also be touring with singer/songwriter Joe Jencks in October. We have also travelled from Malin Head (Irelands most Northerly point) to Mizen Head (Ireland’s most Southerly point) We now have 3 set tours and I am at present looking into Waterford for next year. All in all it has been a great year.

As is the custom, our travellers name their own tours and this year we have had some strange names

The Are We Where We Are Tour

The Best Tour (N)EVER

The Gullible Travellers Tour

I remember when I did the first tour with Johnsmith we said that it would be hard to have a better tour, but each tour raises the bar for the next one. It is incredible. There are no two tours alike. We feel they are getting better all the time. We have had wonderful groups this year and it amazes me to see the bonding starting from the first minute we meet. It is also great to see the emails that start among the groups from the first day that they arrive back in the USA.

I hope you all like the Web Site and I would like to invite all our travellers to write to us.

I hope to write about every couple of weeks, so if anyone has a question to ask, I will try to answer.

TOM