European Literary Trails Study Abroad Program
Professor Jolanta Wawrzycka
Department of English,  Radford University
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Tentative Itinerary for May 18-June 11, 2004.
 * Daily activities, transfers, field trips &  accommodations are listed in the calendar below. There are also contact addresses & phone numbers to be shared with your families. 
 * In Ireland most of our dinners are pre-paid. We’ll make our own breakfasts while in Sligo’s “Yeats Village” apartments, taking advantage of kitchen facilities.
  * Breakfast Sessions will start most of our mornings.  Be ready to hear briefings about a day’s activities before we depart.  I’ll offer lectures about what you are going to see/read about on a given day--and why it matters J  Throughout the entire Program you are expected to take notes & write in your travel logs—your notes will come in handy when you work on your final project, “travel-slide portfolio” web site. 
Since you will receive CDs with poetry of W. B. Yeats, I expect you to be familiar with those poems that feature sites from around Sligo & Galway. 
In Dublin, we‘ll visit James Joyce Centre & historical sites related to Yeats & other writers.  My lectures on Yeats, Joyce, & Irish history should help with your final projects.
* In Italy our breakfasts are pre-paid, but we’ll be on our own for lunches & dinners, enjoying some reasonably-priced restaurants. 
* Admissions to all attractions and museums in Ireland (& most  sites in Italy) are pre-paid. 
* Our potential field trips in Italy are not covered: I will try to book them through Hotel Patrizia on site, so please be prepared to have 60 euros available for the (optional) Siena/San Gimignano Day Tour, and/or 40 euros for the (optional) Arezzo Trip.  If bookings for those Tours are not available, we will enjoy Florence.

W E B  S I T E S,  C O N T A C T   A D D R E S S E S   &   P H O N E   N U M B E R S:
 * DISCOVER SLIGO office tel. 011 353 71 91 47 488
Keith and Debbie McNair, the owners of DISCOVER SLIGO, are always available on their mobile at   011 353 0 86 83 06060.
* GALWAY: Sleepzone Hostel, Galway City.  Address: Woodquay, Galway; tel.  011 353 91 56 69 99.
* ARAN ISLANDS:  Mainistir House Hostel, Inish Mór.  Address: Mainistir, Aran Islands, tel.  011 353 99 61 169.
* SLIGO:  Albanne--Yeats Village, Sligo.  Address:  Ballinode, Sligo; tel.  011 353 71 91 38 945.
*  DUBLIN: Abbey Court Hostel, Dublin City. Address: 29  Bachelors Walk, O'Connell Bridge, Dublin; tel. 011 353 1 87 80 700.
 * FLORENCE: Hotel Patrizia, Florence.  Address: via Montebello 7, 50123 Florence; tel.  011 39 055 28 23 14.

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Departure
for
Dublin

19
Welcome to Ireland; Transfer to Galway with Discover Sligo;
Group Dinner;
 Galway: Sleepzone.

20
Galway walking tour: Nora Joyce’s House; Lynch Castle; the Claddagh; Spanish Parade. Pub Music;
Group Dinner.
 Galway Sleepzone.

21
Yeats Day: Thoor Ballyllee; Coole Park (picnic lunch). Drive through the Burren; Cliffs of Moher;
Group Dinner.
 Galway: Sleepzone.

 

22
Galway: free day. Reading; shopping; Rossaveal: ferry to
Aran Islands.
Group Dinner;
overnight on
Inis Mór: Mainistir.


 

23
Aran Islands: tour of Inis Mór; ferry to Rossaveal. Transfer to Sligo: Drive through Connemara; “The Field,”

Famine Drive;
 Sligo: Yeats Village.

24
Yeats Tour I:
Lough Gill; Y’s Building; Holy Well; Dooney; Innisfree; Parke’s Castle (tour/cruise); Hazelwood. Yeats Literary Dinner.
Sligo: Yeats Village.

25
Yeats Tour II:
Rosses Point; Glencar; Lissadell; Drumcliffe; Mullaghmore; Gleniff. Literary Dinner w/ Joe McGowan, writer. 

Sligo:Yeats Village.

26
  Megalithic Magic:

Carrowkeel Sunrise;

breakfast with

Keith & Debbie; Carrowmore; Dolly’s Cottage; Knocknarea; Sunset BBQ Dinner
“far off by farthest Rosses…”

 

27
 Free day; optional recreational activities
Horse-back riding?
Sea-weed baths? Walk on  beach?

Self-catered dinner; Pub music; Theatre?
Sligo Yeats Village.

28
 South Donegal Tour: Rossnowlagh; Donegal town; Killybegs; Slieve League Cliffs, highest sea cliffs in Europe!
 Dinner en route.
 Sligo:Yeats Village.

 

29
 Free day; reading; writing; shopping.  Special Group Dinner
at Markee Castle;

Sligo: Yeats Village.

30
Enniskillen:

Oscar Wilde; Marble
Arch Caves;

Self-catered dinner;
 Sligo: Yeats Village.


 

 

6
 Florence:  
 Uffizi Court Sculptures; Florentine Renaissance; 
Duomo/Baptisery
Dinner on our own.
Hotel Patrizia.

31
Transfer to Dublin:
Visits to attractions en route; Kells, etc.;

Group Dinner;

Abbey Court.



       

 

 

7
Florence:
 Possible Day Tour to Siena and to
San Gimignano. 
Dinner on our own. 
Hotel Patrizia. 

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Dublin: Glendalough
  Monastery; Wicklow Mountains;
Sally Gap; Dinner en route;
Abbey Court.



8
Florence:
Possible Tour to Arezzo; 
Dinner on our own.
Hotel Patrizia 

2
Dublin:
Trinity College: Book of Kells; Stephen’s Green Dublinia; Viking
Dublin; Dinner on our own;
Abbey Court.

 

9
Florence:
Free day;   Shopping;      
Dinner on our own
Hotel Patrizia     

3

Dublin: James Joyce Centre; Writers’ Museum; Garden of  Remembrance;
Gresham; Famine Monument;
Group Dinner
Abbey Court
 

10
Transfer to Dublin
 Free day   
Dinner on our own.
Abbey Court. 

4
Welcome to
Italy: Pisa &

transfer to Florence.

Dinner on our own. Evening stroll
through Florence.

Hotel Patrizia.

 

11 
Return   
to the US

5
Florence

Literary Walk through Florence: Casa di Dante;
 Chiesa di Dante;
Santa Croce.
Dinner on our own.
Hotel Patrizia.

 

R E AD I N G S
 c  Dubliners
 c  Poetry of  WB

      Yeats   
 c  Course Handouts  
c “Eye Witness”  Travel Guides