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Travel Blogs from Ballycastle
At last - we got to see the Giant's Causeway
... of like seeing Niagara Falls for the first time - you just can't stop looking at it.
We came back to town and tried to find a pub we liked - with no luck. The Bushmills Inn is quite posh was so lacking in character, and the second one we tried just seemed to have the wrong vibe somehow. So we gave up and went for a bite to eat at a very nice restaurant. Then home to our lovely B&B with very friendly and helpful hosts.
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Phenomenal scenery in the Sun & I drove!!
Barely double track, teeny roads, stick shift, hilly and the "wrong side" of the road - drove for over an hour never able to get out of second gear!! and a lot of times stuck in first! GREEN, gorgeous brilliant sun, Irish sea glistening, massive cliffs; hike of 2 km +; Are we having fun or what??
So glad we did the wee road as described by Roger in Belfast. Had tea in Cushendun at Arthur's - tea with milk and sugar and a cherry scone. 2 groups of ...
Day 2 Dublin to Northern Ireland
... fine Irishman that gave us a lot of good advice on where to go see the sites. He mentioned for us to stop by New Grange and see these graves that were there. It didn't work out well for us, we finally got to see the country first hand for about 45 min until we decided to just find our way back to main road. Going through County Down we passed by the Mourne Mountains ,we saw lots of sheep on hills along with tons of cows. We finally closed in on ...
Field trip the the North
... here. Next, we stopped at White Park Bay for a little bit, which is a beautiful beach on the North coast. More scenic pictures.
We stayed the night in a hostel in Ballintoy, a two pub town near the causeway. We conquered both of the pubs there, and everyone had a seemingly awesome time. A few others and I ended up chilling with some German girls, one of whom ...
Giant's Causeway och Dunluce Castle
Ytterligare en vecka har passerat i rasande ****.
Den här veckan var vad som kallas "freshers week" här på Queen's, vilket innebär att alla förstaårselever flyttade in den här veckan och det var massa folk ute på gatorna med reklamblad och annat för att locka nykomlingarna till just deras pub/bar/klubb eller liknande. Men det innebär också att det var en vecka extra för oss utbytesstudenter att gå på olika event och träffa ...