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Intervarsities
This weekend, I went to Belfast for volleyball intervarsities, a tournament for all the college teams in Ireland. The first day was actually Thursday, but I missed this since I was in Dublin for the Naughton's Thanksgiving dinner. We went 1-5 in our pool play this day so we went to the lowest bracket for the tourney. On Friday, we had a pool play with 4 teams to determine the seeds for the actual playoff style ...
YUP those Irish eyes Smile!!
... or two U turns and got right back to where we wanted to be. It's the feeling of challenge and success that drives us to travel, explore new territory and be immersed in new ways of looking at things - so healthy!!! away from the minutia of the mundane and negative energy we get hooked into - so very refreshing.
Roger at the B and B greeted us warmly even tho' we were 2 hours early. LOVED his ...
Kinda disappointed, we wish we hadn't been
... so we booked are combination ticket and walked down to Titanic’s Dock & Pump-house (http://www.titanicsdock.com/). We gave this too little time. At the time it was constructed the Thompson Dry Dock was the largest in the world and it is still gigantic (and apparently in working condition). The Pump-house is pretty much as it was then, the same pumps used back in the early 1900s are still there. They could empty the dock in 100 minutes! Included in our ...
Belfast and The Giant's Causeway
... 8217;s generation will see the end of it. Paddy also showed us some rubber bullets, used by the British forces to fire on protesters. I had no idea they were so huge and it’s easy to see how they could kill someone if fired at bank point range, as indeed they were during The Troubles.
Finally we looked at some of the peace murals on the Fall Rd, which now address issues of injustice ...
From City Hall to Queens
... was totally full shortly after 12. I think most of the people had come in to have a drink and watch a local golfer on the television.
Next stop was the bank. Even with Karen's student discount American money does not go very far here. For my $100 I got just over 60 pounds. Oh well, guess it is all a learning experience.
Now for the grand tour of City Hall which was completed in 1909. The building has 3 different types of ...
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