Comfort Hotel Antrim

... my favorite food groups. No honey mustard for dipping though! The girl working was the owner's daughter who had attended the training with her dad in Gap,PA. Had fun talking with her since our family has been involved in Auntie Anne's for more than 15 years!

... of the titanic used!) so after calling elaine's dad and the irish version of the racq, splurging on some ridiculously cheap chocolate, pulling the sleeping bags out of the boot and sitting at newry service station for about an hour and a half we decided to empty the rest of the boot to find the air pump. then pumped up the tyre and sat there for another half an hour to make sure it wouldn't deflate again we slowly made our way back to dublin!

We hit Giants Causeway and Dunluce Castle today, which is a huge castle
that literally fell of the side of the cliff while people were in it
waiting for their meal. It was pretty cool to see, then we drove the
entire Coastline which was unreal. It was soooo cold and rainy and
windier than ever today, yet still there were a million ...

... immigrant' restaurant (as described by our travel book) for supper, expecting it to be a quaint little Italian spot, but instead it felt like a soda shop from the 1950s. Neon pink seats, kids running a-muk and ice cream sundaes of every colour for sale!!! We got pizza and tried not to get knocked over by the kids!! If you are wanting to talk yourself out of having kids, go to Morelli's!!! Our B and B was beautiful. We looked right out to the ...

After weeks of planning, packing and praying the Harms family is finally ready to go international. God Save the Queen! In the back of my mind we might end up like the Griswalds in European Vacation or the Brady Bunch in the old Hawaii episode. Let's hope not.

Our trip will be for 11 days, five days in Northern Ireland and four days in London with the spare days for travel. We start from ICT and have an uneventful ...

... another thing that just doesn't happen in England! We drove straight into the city centre and parked up right next to the City Hall... how easy is that at home?! The City Hall was apparently designed based on St Pauls Cathedral - it looks pretty neat I think, and makes a nice focal point for the city. The weather was turning a bit dismal by now so we decided ...

... of the day was driving through northern Belfast, and the areas affected by "The Troubles" between Irish catholics and British protestants. We saw graffiti walls covered by political pictures, homes with either Irish or British flags in the windows to signify their allegiance, and the locations of previous bombings and violence. However, many of the homes had white lillies or white roses in the windows. I wondered if this was a sign that ...

We arrived in Belfast yesterday afternoon. It was raining which was a huge surprise! Hahaha!! Not really! We caught the local airport bus into the city and were dropped at the bus station on Victoria Street. The walk to our hotel was six minutes, so we trucked over. We were pretty excited b/c as a treat for Jeremy's birthday we decided to stay at Benedicts, a boutique-style hotel downtown Belfast. It is beautiful! Jer and I got upgraded to the executive suite ...

... there are sheep that run around keeping the grass short. After our day at Vimy we decided to go see Mount St. Michel. A castle/ Church that can only be reached in low tide. The base for this day trip was a town called St. Malo. We could have gone to another but this one was on the english channel and had beaches. So after a bit of travel we ended up in northern france. The beach was a 5 min. walk away from the hostel. Almost imediatly we went to the water and played around like little ...

... particular Protestant areas seemed poorer in comparison to the Falls Road, the terraced houses were generally not as well looked after, some of the shops were boarded up and there was a lot of litter piling up in the streets. The murals were much more foreboding too, almost exclusively glorifying Loyalist paramilitary groups with paintings of balaclava-clad men pointing machine guns in a show of strength for the Loyalist cause.

I found these places just as ...