Dunadry Hotel And Country Club

... 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!

... cottage! in the morning the 40-ish architecture students started on a breakfast of toast and left over champ (mashed potato) before stephen's mammy came down (via the grand staircase in the turret over looking the courtyard) and pulled out fruit salad, fresh scones and starting cooking sausages! after brunch we took a leisurley turn around the garden and explored the estate which was most delightful, they had the most exquiset views over lough ...

... out
catching some waves. Too bad we couldnt post pics yet, but we'll probs
post them a few times in between countries if we have time. We're in
Belfast
now and once again, have found a great B and B...tomorrow we head to
Scotland ont he Ferry. For tonight, just an internet cafe and a cup of
Starbucks coffee. Home Sweet Home.

... today to Ikea, which was actually good fun. It had been about 18 years since I visited one. I did see just a glimpse of Belfast today and hope to get there later this week. I worked in a youth club in Ardoyne from '77/'78 and will enjoy wandering about the old neighborhood. Will also try to get to Glebe House, near Strangford. where I was a volunteer for a year in '79.

Carole has her hands full with 2 small ones, 2 teenagers ...

... 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 ...

... carriers, and went out two or three vehicles at a time. Last night we were at the pub until nearly midnight, and today, we saw a single police vehicle, and several cops on foot patrol in the city centre. They were wearing bullet proof vests, and walking around in groups of three and four, but they wouldn't have been on foot in '97. I think we may have walked ten miles today -- great way to see the city and get caught up ...

... pero los Pubs abundaban. Fuimos a un bar super viejo, donde la iluminación era a gas. En Belfast se construyo el TItanic, y hay todo un camino donde seguis un poco las historia del titanic. De cualquier forma oscurece temprano y a la noche ya emprendimos la vuelta a Dublin.

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... Benandonner. We all agree that the scientific explanation is just as fascinating as the legends. Scientists explain that molten lava flowed down the slopes and into the ocean. As it dried over the chalk beds, it cracked, much like mud cracks in a drying puddle. It cooled, solidified, and cracked at right angles creating the hexagonal columns. Have you ever noticed that mud dries to make hexagons? We haven't. Let's just say that we were quite impressed ...

... sky finally cleared and the harbour of Belfast Lough looked a picture perfect blue – there can be no finer first impression to Belfast than the one we were welcomed with.

It’s a city I have always had a morbid fascination about, I guess because as a kid in the 1980’s Belfast and Beirut seemed to always be the two major cities stricken by violence that made the TV news. In my young mind Ireland seemed a far stranger place for warfare than Lebanon ...