Eglinton Hotel Portrush

49 Eglinton Street Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT56 8DZ, United Kingdom

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Derry, Derry nice.

A travel blog entry by sarahimray

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... it is a sobering thought and very poignant as we watch the angry, foaming waves whiplash the cliffs, sending vicious spray up to the swaying rope bridge which fishermen had used for centuries to collect salmon on the island at the other end. We opt not to cross over, instead marveling at the stoic ticket collector whose job seems to be standing in the squalling rain with no shelter. Happily, they have Melbourne weather here, so emerging from ...

Giants and whiskey

A travel blog entry by londonpenguin

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After lunch we moved on to Carrick-a-Rede to cross the rope bridge. It's a mile walk from the parking lot to the bridge ... all downhill and with two long flights of old stone steps. Then when you get to the bridge, there's another very steep set of steel stairs leading down to the small cliff. The bridge is strung 100 feet above a 65-foot-wide chasm between the mainland and a tiny island. There are two planks to walk on, there are rope handrails, and the whole ...

Trouble

A travel blog entry by londonpenguin

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Martin took us down off the wall to see the Bogside Murals. These huge murals are painted on the sides of blocks of flats on the street where the Bloody Sunday march occurred and depict actual events from the Troubles. Martin said that he wouldn't have been able to take a group there as recently as five years ago. As he said several times, “These are the best times we have known in Derry.” One mural shows a 14-year-old girl named Annette ...

Causeway

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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The Giants Causeway was another one of the "must do" sites that we had been told about even before leaving Canada. Unlike some of our other excursion days, the weather did not cooperate with us for our Giants Causeway visit. Knowing that we most likely wouldn't make it back to the area anytime soon, we braved the windy rain and jogged our way through. It was worth it.

We boarded the Coastal Cruiser from Belfast to Ballintoy. ...

Malin Head

A travel blog entry by leann-robyn

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... tower still intact) as well as being an area of some very significant WWII history. As we walked past the white painted rocks signifying the Republic being a neutral, no bomb zone (as opposed to its nearby neighbour, Northern Ireland), we tried to imagine what the view would've been like from air so many years ago.

Heading south. Over and out,
Leann and ...

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