Bonz - you want to take in the National Librqary and some parish records in Dublin..............?? My advice would be to travel down on the train. I wouldn't have a clue as to deatils *but* there's more than likely a train that will leave Belfast about 7a.m and another about 9 a.m. My guess is that it takes an hour to get from there to here (based on how long it takes to drive to Belfast). You would end up in what we call Amien street station - from there, you could take a DART to Pierce street, get off, walk out the main door, go to the left as you come out, up the road a bit, round the corner to your right hand side - another corner going left and another - take the right. Five minutes up that road you come to the one that the Nat. Lib is on (can't remember the name right now!!!!) - take a left, go up there and Bob's your Uncle. You'd be in the National library 15-20 minutes (max.) after you get off your train from Belfast, depending on how fast you walk Reading through your mail here though, I'm getting confused. You speak of taking the bus down to Dublin on the Saturday - adn then you ask about bus tours on a Sunday. So.............I'm talking about Saturday only - the NL in Dublin is closed on Sunday. If it's travellig to Dublin on Sat you mean and wondering about your mopther on the Sat and seeing Dublin after you've done that bit of research - then you should take one of the city bus tours - they're hop on and hop off. You pick them up where you want to, get off where you want to and get back on where you got off. They take a few hours overall - you don't have to do the ful tour and you could head back to the train station for whatever train you need to get back to Belfast that suits you. Regards, Jane To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [BELFAST] Day Trips? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope you'll excuse the off-topic (genealogy) post, but in-between research, I'll have two days to show my mom any sights that I can see. I have a Saturday, during which I'll take a bus down to Dublin<snip>Are there any small day bus tours leaving from Belfast on a Sunday and returning? I looked at UlsterBus, but they have very few Sunday trips