Number 10 B&B
Travel Blogs from Coleraine
At last - we got to see the Giant's Causeway
The day started with the usual breakfast at the B&B. Then we headed out for the city walls and the walking tour recommended by the B&B operator. It was pouring rain and not the kind of day when one feels inspired to do a walking tour. However, by the time the tour actually began, the rain had finished and the blue sky showed up - the rain did not start again until about 5 minutes before the end of the tour. It was an ...
Wow - imagine being here !!!
Yesterday we drove from Dublin to Dunfanaghy which is in northern Donegal. It was a long drive but we stopped on the way at the Belleek pottery centre and saw some of the work there and some of the historic pieces on display. We also watched a video on how they make this pottery. Thanks to Laura for telling me about Belleek - I hadn't known about it before. We also stopped at a place ...
Phenomenal scenery in the Sun & I drove!!
... of a busload of tour folk with a waiter who simply wasn't into his job - quite funny. So did the 2 km walk out to Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge - short wee bridge but fabulous walk there and back - would have been closed if it had rained, so again, so lucky!
Whitepark Inn was next B and B - upmarket and full of Indian and Thai souvenirs. Bob the Innkeeper quite the strongly opinionated bloke and therefore hilarious. Greeted us with greasy hands ...
Day 2 Dublin to Northern Ireland
... fine Irishman that gave us a lot of good advice on where to go see the sites. He mentioned for us to stop by New Grange and see these graves that were there. It didn't work out well for us, we finally got to see the country first hand for about 45 min until we decided to just find our way back to main road. Going through County Down we passed by the Mourne Mountains ,we saw lots of sheep on hills along with tons of cows. We finally closed in on ...
Field trip the the North
... her 25th birthday I think.
The next day, we were in Bellfast city. We saw the Bellfast wall, dividing the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods, which is crazy to think still needs to be standing. The houses near the wall actually have metal cages covering the back sides of them. Many of the buildings in this area have big murals painted on them, supporting heros ...