Mourne Drive
Travel Blogs from Newry
A Day of Information and Reflection
... Republic of Ireland for the night – I have a meeting here tomorrow. We found a fantastic B&B purely by accident – didn’t look that great from the outside – more like an old old hotel. But it has been totally refurbished on the inside and we have a spacious room with a lovely new bathroom, also spacious. We have learned to appreciate SPACE during our time in Ireland. Canadians use so much of it in everything that we do and everything that we ...
Tracing the Past
... well...didn't reach its destination is beyond me, but the brand-spankin'-new Belfast Titanic Museum was just waiting to be explored.
The museum was very impressive, complete with not only artifacts from the ship, but also displays of first, second, and third class rooms and a sort-of roller coaster ride, taking visitors past a sample work area, showing how the Titanic was made. I took the ride with a group of school children from a ...
Made in Belfast
As mentioned in previous entries, the McKenna household is so like my own family in so many ways that when it came to say goodbye after a few short days, I couldn't help but get emotional and steal an extra hug from Brigid on behalf of my own Mum who I miss terribly.
Edel and Enda dropped Christine and I off in town to catch a bus bound for the big smoke - Belfast. The drive through the Northern Irish countryside ...
Day 7/Night in Belfast
... share a Guinness on such an important place.
The three girls and I got ready and then headed with everyone to a night club in downtown Belfast. It was very different from what we have in Pittsburgh. We all enjoyed ourselves and danced the night away into the wee hours of morning. We then headed to a Kebab shop, which was my first one ever. It was delicious. We then had a long way home where we ended the night watching the sun come up sharing some laughs.
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Belfast - The Final Frontier
Galway was my last stop in Ireland, and from there I headed up to Derry in Northern Ireland. I was only staying there one night, and then next day I was going to move onto Belfast and try to stop at Giant's Causeway on the way. Derry is the sight of Bloody Sunday and other complications related to "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland.
I arrived late in the afternoon, and strolled around the city to look at the murals commemorating events of The ...