The Salty Dog Bangor

... my favorite food groups. No honey mustard for dipping though! The girl working was the owner's daughter who had attended the training with her dad in Gap,PA. Had fun talking with her since our family has been involved in Auntie Anne's for more than 15 years!

... 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
that literally fell of the side of the cliff while people were in it
waiting for their meal. It was pretty cool to see, then we drove the
entire Coastline which was unreal. It was soooo cold and rainy and
windier than ever today, yet still there were a million ...

... of the day was driving through northern Belfast, and the areas affected by "The Troubles" between Irish catholics and British protestants. We saw graffiti walls covered by political pictures, homes with either Irish or British flags in the windows to signify their allegiance, and the locations of previous bombings and violence. However, many of the homes had white lillies or white roses in the windows. I wondered if this was a sign that ...

... game of telephone. It consisted of Kevin sending text messages to one of his friends and Amy, and them sending me messages via facebook or email. So I'm sure there has been some distortion in the process; I bet their flight delay was caused by Visigoths laying siege to O'Hare airport rather than a blizzard.

"If an ass goes traveling, he'll not come home a horse." - Thomas Fuller 8 July Somewhat last minute, I decided to go to Northern Ireland this weekend. Now on a bus towards Giant's Causeway, I appreciate the political stability in the places I've been living. It's marching season and the tension between the Catholics and Protestants can be seen on every street. Business ...

... a really great day. It was well worth the 18 quid for the tour. Today, I went on the famous Black Taxi Tour of Belfast. Normally I'm not much interested in politics and such but the history was really fascinating. We went past the "peace wall". Think the Berlin wall except there are gates that open and close on a part-time basis separating the Catholic and Protestant areas of Belfast. They open from I think it was 8 am to ...

... friends are still in touch. Contrary to popular belief we have grown up in the intervening years and each gone our own successful ways, but on the rare occasions we get together we seem guaranteed to switch onto a mutually shared wavelength and light a touch-paper that results in constant amusement and semi-constant alcohol consumption. When I arrived on Thursday night after ...

... whether they're proven to be true or if my friends are such good company that I don't notice a thing. Actually, the truth is that I fear I won't notice a thing because this lot are such a bunch of pissheads (and always lead me astray) that I might not be able to remember what's happened after the weekend. At least I've got the camera with me, but whether you lot get to see what happens is another matter. What goes on tour, stays on tour, eh lads!

... cab tour of the Catholic and Protestant areas of West Belfast. I had that down as the must-do for us here, having already done one nine months earlier with my friend Rebecca on a day trip from Dublin, but once we actually got into Belfast I thought I could find the major sights again myself, and thus take Amber and Nanna on our own little black cab tour.

We started up along the Falls Road, the Catholic hub and site of the head offices of Sinn Fein, the ...