Travel to Ireland
We arrived at Stranraer to get Ferry to Belfast to discover that they had no record of booking. After a couple of phone calls it was straigtened out and we headed off. Fairly calm crossing considering the change in weather. Cool and rainy. We arrived in Belfast safely and decided that we would utilise the on-off bus tour on offer. Very interesting as they show you where the troubles have been over the 30 years - buildings blown up, police stations heavily armoured and special glass against bombs - you know the normal sort of things you expect. Definately wouldn't have been touring around in an open bus a couple of years ago. But overall Belfast is recovering with a lot of money being spent on development and they have there first glass building which they are proud of because it shows that people believe in the peace lasting.
Next day we headed off to the Grand Causeway which is magnificent. There are about 40,000 stones on the beach making columns reaching in some cases 40ft high. Features such as "the organ" and others made for an interesting cliff top walk where we climbed down 169 steps to the beach and unfortunately had to walk back once again - but decided on the slope rather than steps on the return trip. Then headed off to Carrick-a-Rede Bridge where there was a 2km round trip to a rope bridge from the mainland to an island (only 30m high above the sea) which I actually managed to cross - both ways as we had to come back. This was actually an amazing achievement as the bridge was at that time swaying quite a lot in the very windy afternoon. So cold today that I even had to wear the raincoat borrowed from Glynis.
We are currently in southern Ireland where we drove down yesterday calling in at Yeats Country to have a quick look around at where their favourite poet got his inspiration. Beautiful country once again. It is bank holiday and school holidays so everywhere is pretty busy.
We head to Dublin in a couple of days then back to Belfast to get the Ferry to mainland once again. To answer Jenny's query we are due back in Aus on 19th August and back to work on 21st - really looking forward to that:)
Thats all for now keep comments coming Cheers from Ireland
PS Don't like Guiness but whisky is good.......
Next day we headed off to the Grand Causeway which is magnificent. There are about 40,000 stones on the beach making columns reaching in some cases 40ft high. Features such as "the organ" and others made for an interesting cliff top walk where we climbed down 169 steps to the beach and unfortunately had to walk back once again - but decided on the slope rather than steps on the return trip. Then headed off to Carrick-a-Rede Bridge where there was a 2km round trip to a rope bridge from the mainland to an island (only 30m high above the sea) which I actually managed to cross - both ways as we had to come back. This was actually an amazing achievement as the bridge was at that time swaying quite a lot in the very windy afternoon. So cold today that I even had to wear the raincoat borrowed from Glynis.
We are currently in southern Ireland where we drove down yesterday calling in at Yeats Country to have a quick look around at where their favourite poet got his inspiration. Beautiful country once again. It is bank holiday and school holidays so everywhere is pretty busy.
We head to Dublin in a couple of days then back to Belfast to get the Ferry to mainland once again. To answer Jenny's query we are due back in Aus on 19th August and back to work on 21st - really looking forward to that:)
Thats all for now keep comments coming Cheers from Ireland
PS Don't like Guiness but whisky is good.......
posted by mulholland's adventure at
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1 Comments:
hello,
apparently missed your call last night - sorry was online (not all of us have broadband:)
ireland would be fantastic, soak it all up - not the rain thou
see you soonish:)
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