first time uk/europe trip from australia
my friend and I and planning a trip to europe in december travelling from brisbane, aus. we were initially planning for 4 weeks covering england, ireland, scotland, denmark (just copenhagen) and finland but have had to cut it down to 3 weeks bc of graduation dates. we were planning on cutting out copenhagen and finland bc of this and currently have the following itinerary:
9 days england (including potential day trip to paris)
5 days scotland
5 days ireland (plans to rent a car and do a little roadtrip but still undecided)
+ 2 days travelling there and back
granted we havent done too much in depth research into what we want to do while we’re there so any recs would be appreciated! anyway what do you guys think of this itinerary so far? is there any place we should spend less/more time in? or any other countries we could potentially squeeze in?
this is also our first time on an international trip by ourselves so any other travel advice would be appreciated too!!