Once we had decided to travel to Ireland, we ran into a challenge of how we wanted to organize our visit. Would this be a trip of getting a car and doing a two week driving loop around the country? Would we focus on one or two places? Should this be a trip where we were frequently on the move or one where we caught our breath and spent longer stretches in a place? Regardless of the answers to those as we were planning, we knew that we wanted to visit somewhere in Northern Ireland. As our planning took shape and Galway and County Donegal looked to be the prime locations for a slower paced visit, we decided on a day trip from Dublin to Belfast for our first ever visit to the UK.