Ragged coastlines and spring flowers on our 7 days in Ireland This post has been updated in May 2021. The bar was set pretty high for this road trip around Ireland. First of all, we just visited Scotland the year before and this turned out to be an epic road trip. How were we to top this? Secondly, we set ourselves the ambitious goal of discovering Ireland’s highlights in only 7 days. Crazy? I guess so. But it turned out to be another smashing European road trip, just the way we like it! Hold on for our 7 day Ireland