The Grange
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A Day of Information and Reflection
... were interactive as well; e.g. stand on this diamond and a certain part of the blueprint comes up, and quizzes to test your knowledge in various places. One of the most amazing bits was a "ride" in a car that was like a mono-rail suspended above various real-life aspects of building the ship. They showed how it took 3 men to put in some (or all ???) of the rivets – one to get it out of the fire and put it into the hole and hold it there, one to hammer it into ...
A Wonderful Weekend in the Lakelands
... breakfast at the Arch House. Rosie was kind enough to give us a lift down to the Marble Arch Caves where we took a very informative tour! This is a great attraction as when there isn't heavy rain you can take a boat through the river in the caves. We, like many others, weren't so lucky but it was still wonderful!
After the tour we embarked upon the most magical place I've ever been...ever! The Claddagh Glens behind the Marble Arch Caves were a wonderland of ferns ...
Day 10 - Derry to Omagh
... the wall into Bogside ‘Free Derry’ area and looked at some of the murals and visited the Free Derry Museum. The museum was eerie, listening to the soundtrack of the screams, shouting, gunfire, explosions and mothers crying from Bloody Sunday.
(Two days after we left Derry, they located two bombs near the council building including one in an area we’d walked right past days before.)
We'd decided to head to Connemara area of Ireland ...
Galway to Pettigo
Galway to Pettigo
Travelled via Castlebar, Foxford, past Lough Conn to Ballycastle which is Lindsay's ancestral home. Pity she hadn’t let them know we were coming, because there was no one there to greet us!!
Had a nice lunch there at Mary’s Cottage Kitchen, before moving on to Ballina, Sligo, Bundoran, Ballyshannon before reaching Pettigo. What a surprise. A 200yo Shooting cottage in the middle of deerstalking country. ...
Northern Island and Donegal
Great scenery today on the way to the seaside resort of Bundoran in County Donegal. We crossed the border into Northern Island and back into pounds country we had the tour of the Belleek Pottery factory which was interesting they have been going for 155 years. We stopped in the town Enniskillen where there have been many violent attacks (bombings and ...
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