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Travel Blogs from Portrush
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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Wow - imagine being here !!!
... a great meal and looking forward to a walking tour of Derry tomorrow. We are staying close to Bogside where many of the "troubles" occurred back in the 70's. Then we are on to the Antrim coast and the Giant's Causeway. Being here is a bit of a bonus as it was not on "MY" agenda - but we are ahead of schedule so have time to do some looking around in what seems to be an interesting city.
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Phenomenal scenery in the Sun & I drove!!
... of a busload of tour folk with a waiter who simply wasn't into his job - quite funny. So did the 2 km walk out to Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge - short wee bridge but fabulous walk there and back - would have been closed if it had rained, so again, so lucky!
Whitepark Inn was next B and B - upmarket and full of Indian and Thai souvenirs. Bob the Innkeeper quite the strongly opinionated bloke and therefore hilarious. Greeted us with greasy hands ...
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
... conflict, often pictured with guns and violent images. After checking out the city, we went to the Titanic museum, since the Titanic was built in Bellfast. This was a pretty modern museum and had tons of info about anything you could imagine had to do with the ship.
After this, we watched the rematch of the Galway Kilkenny hurling match, but alas, Galway did not win.
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