Premier Inn Belfast City Centre Waring Street

... competition from the night before... alana won cause of her elaborate face painting and got a 1L bottle of northern irish whisky! we stopped at an old monastic settlement on the way back but we were happy to get back on the bus cause it was freezing! got back to dublin around 5:30 and said good bye to everyone after exchanging emails (so i know have free accommodation almost anywhere in australia!) i had so much fun that i booked a tour with the same company in scotland for next year!<br>

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 ...

... explaining why my typing is so poor and it's past midnight! <br><br>Now i'm sure i've missed many things, and i hope i get some photos up for you all - Belfast is just beautiful and a necessary part of any tour - very interesting to see both sides of the story, as it were. <br><br>Till next time, <br><br>XO (due to very very very fecking slow computers, late hour and my level of alcoholedness, i'm off to bed, but will try to put up photos soon!) <br>

... at. We then headed to the shopping district and got a Red Bull each to try and get a bit more awake!<br> The Red Bull really didn't help as I snoozed as soon as we were back on the bus...I dozed until we ended up at Alloway, the birth place of Robert Burns...It was basically an information place with Robert Burns stuff, a gift shop and restaurant. It was a bit early for us to have a full meal, so we had Broccoli and Stilton soup, walked ...

... so to kill so we hung out in the waiting room reading. Jodi's little friend was back and was playing with a balloon. Jodi pretended to take it and keep it, to which he responded by calling her a "butthead" ! Then he was rewarded with an energy drink, I should probably mention he looked about 5 years old:) So, yes bundle of energy! BBC news was on, much of it concerned with the Michael Jackson story. There was a really cute family that walked by, all in matching green and white striped Celtic ...

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... story in it which should be a direct message for us all to live by.. A school teacher held a funeral for her class of pupils. This was not a sad event, it was the happiest funeral ever. She got them to write down a list of as many 'I can'ts' as they could in 15 minutes. Some wrote an A4 page, others wrote many A4 pages, and when they were done they put them in a box on the teachers desk. They all packed all their 'I can'ts' into the box, went out to the ...

... how these groups could have so much hatred for one another. On one side of the fence the back yards of houses were in cages.... yes, cages. These were to stop fires breaking out from people on the other side throwing things over the wall. Can you imagine having to cage your back yard???? Brian told us what it was like to grow up in that climate. His mother had been shot... she lived but she was ...

... wing of the IRA. It&#8217;s a busy commercial street, with murals on the sides of the terraced housing off it commemorating hunger-striking political prisoners and deaths of civilians caught up in the recent decades of violence. &#8220;Free Sean Kelly&#8221; graffiti was another common sight, a tactic which obviously worked as the political prisoner was released from prison six days after our visit. <br><br>From there we crossed through the &#8216;Peace Line&#8217;, an ...

... about Belfast. We ended up staying at the Holiday Inn on University Street. After a short walk around we had dinner at Spud's potato restaurant and later to bed. We woke up the next day to dark clouds and rain. The night before we passed a Protestant church and since it was Sunday we went in. After church it was raining even harder than before so we went to the Ulster Botanical Gardens. We walked in to a virtual rainforest to different tropical plants, it was really cool ...