Showing posts with label northern ireland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label northern ireland. Show all posts

Saturday, June 09, 2012

Parents Irish Holidays - Part 2 Northern Ireland

Starting with Belfast and the Titanic experience, very good, worth a trip
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Newspaper headline...
the last message of the Titanic...
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Titanic last message....
Then the Giant Causeway....
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My folks walking to the causeway ...
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Dad on top of the Giant Causeway...
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Walking on the giant causeway


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Viewed from the top of the cliff.
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Northern Ireland Coastline
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Pause...

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Coastline on the right of the rope bridge.... blue sky and sea
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The rope bridge
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Derry the republican side and the graffiti
  Last stop Derry and the republican side.

Thursday, June 07, 2012

Irish Holidays with my parents

I am back from 10 days travelling with my parents in the North of Ireland with my parents. A good occasion for me to visit, Irish places I don't usually hang into.

Here's the full road trip ( minus some detours ):
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Over 1400 km, a couple of days in Dublin , then in UK before finishing in Donegal.
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Tallship anchored on the Liffey
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Guinness for moral support
First we started in Dublin Visiting the Guinness StoreHouse The quays, and Trinity College and the book of Kells
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Sculputre along the old quays
 

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That's the way to ensure it won't be stolen...
 Also a bit of wandering under the sun in the streets of the fair city: We also visited St Patrick Cathedral, and seen it's organ fund:
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A keg as an organ fund... inside St Patrick cathedral ... ???
Suprisingly at the restaurant in Temple Bar I was able to find some Muprhy:
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My favourite stout... Murphy
Then after a small detour through NewGrange ,we were off to Belfast to see the Titanic Quarter:
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The entrance of the Titanic experience...
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The dry dock in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast
We settle for a couple of days in Antrim, visiting the Bushmills Old Distillery:
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A nice sample of Bushmills
 Then the Giant Causeway, and the coastline. Before going back to the republic we went to Derry:
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Diamong in Derry
 The flower were blooming all over the place...
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Heather blooming
We settled in Killybeg for a couple of days:

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Killybeg fishing harbour
Off course we had a bit more pints of Guiness:
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Mor stout
And healthy Irish breakfast:
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Irish Breakfast ... foodporn
We also did a bit of tweed shopping:
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Tweed shopping
It was soon time to go back to Dublin, but on the way back we stopped at the Bundoran beaches:
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Bundoran Beach
And Carrick On Shannon. By 5PM wednesday we were in Dublin, I said goodbye to my parents before they fly back to France, and soon I was on the way back to Limerick via the bus:
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On the way back to Limerick
 I realize that I have a lot more pics, so I'll add a post or 2 to add those later.

All picture on this post taken with Instagram on Android.