Dublin to Belfast

We continued with our tour of Dublin checking out what the city had to offer. Crowds of people and more crowds, considering the small population of Ireland everywhere is so busy. We decided to do a tour of the Guiness Brewery which actually was very interesting and informative. As part of the tour they give you a glass of the brew, which unfortunately I don't really appreciate so settled for a soft drink instead and let John drink the brown liquid. One of the sayings in Dublin is that if you can see the hills it will rain and if you can't see the hills it will rain - this came true around 5pm that evening just before we went to the Temple Bar district for dinner and called into one of the many pubs to watch the Irish Ballad singers perform. Great night and returned later on the DART to our B&B a little damp but soon dried out.

Today we headed back to Belfast in order that we can get back on the ferry tomorrow. On the way back we stopped at the Bru na Boinne Visitor Centre and took a tour of Newgrange and Knowth which have archaelogical sites of mounds dating back to more than 3000bc (bloody old - actually 500 years older than the pyramids in Egypt). The mounds are built to house the ashes of cremated dead and also act as temples to the gods of there beliefs. We went inside one which was really wierd standing in something that old. The passage faced east and the only time natural light came into the mound is on the 21st December when it lights up the inside chamber.

Tomorrow we head back to Scotland and down to Lakes District, although we seem to be having problems in organising accommodation so we could actually either end up sleeping in the car or somewhere - anywhere!!!! Hopefully we will find somewhere in the end, will let you know on the next update.