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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 ...
A Good Beat
We maitained the 'start it every 4 hours' regime through all of Thursday and headed off for the south bound tide at 5am Friday. It was in fact a great sail, though none of us felt quite 100%.
Progress was very good up until the tide changed at 11am. We almost had the right angle to beat in to Belfast Lough on a South South Easterly but as the foul tide strenghend we had to tack several times to get past Cloghan Jetty, ...
Day 8/Carrick
... represent one side's political
point of view. Almost all Northern Ireland murals promote either republican or loyalist political beliefs, often glorifying paramilitary groups such as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Ulster Freedom Fighters, and the Ulster Volunteer Force, while others commemorate people who have lost their lives in paramilitary or military ...
A look at the past
... complete with people in the dress of the time. We bought some sweets in the general store than lasted us a long time. Good value. In one cottage the woman had just come back from visiting her son in Nelson. She was making soda bread on a griddle over a peat fire. Bruce and I found it all fascinating (including a quick look at the Transport Museum with a test model of the De Lorean car as in the movie 'Back to the Future’! From here we drove ...
Walking in the Footsteps of the Giant
... and winding roads, we found it, and it lives up to its name. The only way to get to the top is to climb, so climb we did until we got to the abandoned coast guard station at the top. The sky had cleared considerably since we left the causeway, and wonder of wonders, we could see Scotland! It was 14 miles away, and very faint, but it was there.
We continued on the drive, and at one time John said he was getting nervous--the only thing on my side of the car ...
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