La Mon Htl And Country Club Belfast

... seen any men with guns, we said no and he said how do you know and pulled down the car's sun visor to show us his gun! (he also called the pope a nazi so he was a bit strange) but there's obviously still alot of tension there, our next stop was on the side of a road between two long 10m(ish) high walls that run right through the city and out into the mountains - the peace wall to keep the protestant and catholic neighbourhoods seperated. there was a sculpture set into the wall with ...

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

... makes such a subtle difference. It was also a good example of how history is shaped as much by what you say as what you don't say!!!!! <br><br>Well, now for the best part of our day. After the museum we were both famished (and Sean normally doesn't get that way, so you know we were in dire need of food). We wanted to go to an actual restaurant as much of our meals have been take away to save money. Well, as we walked towards the city centre we saw places, but they weren't open ...

... nothing before leaving on the trip) Ireland is divided into the republic of Ireland, the Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is further divided (bear in mind this is the simple simple version, owing to my lack of sleep and high level of alcohol intoxication!) into two main areas - Catholics and Protestants - the Catholics want to be part of the Republic of Ireland, and the Protestants (orange in colour), don't want a bar of it - they want to ...

... which ended up being a longer event than had expected due to the Galway vs. Dublin football match being shown on TV, we headed out to Clonfert Cathedral. This cathedral has remarkable stonework etchings along its archway. I was also able to find a "Galvin" family plot in its cemetery. <br>Tired and ready for home they had us re-board the bus and set out to Galway. We returned at 7:00 pm. (We were supposed to have ...

... Monday driving up the Causeway Coastal Route to see the Giant's causeway, and stopped at quite a few places on the way. We walked across the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, which was an adventure in itself on account of the weather. Monday and Tuesday, the two full days I actually spent here, were rainy and windy in true Irish fashion. And it wasn't a consistent rain like we have in Canada, where you go out with your umbrella and you're usually fine. It was ...

So that's the end of my Great American Road Trip. I've visited 16 states and drove 7000 miles in three weeks. It's been an outstanding couple of months, not forgetting the month before that in Spain. That week I spent with Rosa was fantastic, and of course that's where I met Zachariah. Boston was surprising and an excellent start to my American adventure. Thanks again to Mehdi ...

... NI, and I'm loving being home early. Seeing people and having fun about here for afew weeks before New Zealand. Unfortunately I don't have the budget to go to NZ earlier and it would mean paying to change flights and some other stuff I'd pre-booked so I really can't afford it! Checked my bank account this morning for the first time in about 5 weeks.. gave myself a shock so I'll have to be more careful with money here on in!

... to dry her hand-washed undies by putting them by the back window. <br><br>Heading out of Ballycastle to the east we turned off the main road and got stuck into some incredibly narrow, steep and twisting country lanes, and stumbled on an old nineteenth century coast guard station at Torr Head with views across to the coast of Scotland, only 19km away. Then back on the main road again we followed the coast around in our customary clock-wise direction, and in the afternoon ...

... a extremely drunk women who was doing what I could only call horse dancing. She was pretty much standing in the one spot lifting one foot at a time and shaking as much as she could, whilst trying to get any guy up to dance - actually I think that she was trying to make her boyfriend jealous but she is all his .....as I am sure that most of the guys in the place were thinking, she kept amused that is for sure. 03/08/04 - Belfast to Derry First order of the day was a black ...