We're off to Ireland, Liverpool and the Lakes - soon anyway

Over the last little year I've been planning our next big trip. Since our trip to Scotland we've had a jaunt across to Western Australia and another to Far North Queensland, both unblogged.
As we just can't seem to slow the pace, we've restricted ourselves to 4 weeks this time. The down side is that I reckon 1 additional stay at each of our stops would be about perfect so time over I'd be tempted to add another week, but the money is not infinite and we are extravagant travellers so there's got to be some sort of restraint if we're to be able to fund future trips.
Our choices around which areas to focus on have been based on a general theme of family history and bucket list ticks. County Down and Belfast have links to two lines of my family as does Liverpool if only for a long period of residence before my Andersons/McCulloughs migrated to join family who had come directly to Australia twenty years before. We do miss so many other wonderful places in Ireland, but as always I hope one day to have an opportunity to return.
Our itinerary goes like this:

Dublin - 2 nights
Trim - 1 night
Airport hotel - 1 night
Castle Leslie - 2 nights
Newcastle - 2 nights
Strangford - 1 night
Helen's Tower - 2 nights
Ballintoy - 1 night
Derry - 2 nights
Ardara - 1 night
Donegal Town - 1 night
Belfast - 3 nights
Liverpool - 2 nights
Grasmere - 3 nights

So, that's a lot more 1 night stops than we usually aim for. It will be interesting to see how we cope with that!