Showing posts with label Belfast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belfast. Show all posts

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

The awesomeness of Northern Ireland

After Junior left to Dublin my friend Will arrived from England. Next day we started a road trip and headed up north aiming the Giant's Causeway.


Along the way we checked the Downhill House and the Mussenden Temple ant the cliffs close to the city Castlerock, in the county Londonderry.
"A place of an outstanding beauty"


That is one expects to see in Ireland: a great meadow and sheep.


Such an breathtaking view from the cliffs.

 Now to Bushmills and Giant's Causeway.

Cheers peeps!

In Belfast

Belfast makes a totally different impression from Dublin.
It start with the currency, Northern Ireland (NI) is part of UK and they don't use the Euro, like in the Republic of Ireland.

The city makes also a less traditional impression. Kinda modern, commercial and planed.

The people don't use much of Gaellic in NI as they do in Ireland. One thing is the very same wherever you are on the Island: Irish people are really friendly, real mates, as they normally say.

Some weight seeing spots are the Town Hall, the Queen's Square and the Titanic museum. Pics coming soon.

Now meeting Will and tomorrow heading to the very north of NI. To the Giant's Causeway.

Cheers everyone!

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Heading up north to Belfast

Now sitting in the bus and heading up north from Dublin to Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland.


We took the bus in the Dublin Bus Statio (Busáras) close to the Conolly Station in the very centre of Dublin. A single ticket costed 17€ and the journey will take almost 3 hours. There are buses from Bus Éireann (www.buseireann.ie) leaving every sharp hour every day of week. It makes an obligatory stop at the airport.

Plans for Belfast: sightseeing of course, Titanic museum, and meeting Will an heading further north to the Giant's Causeway. Excitied!

It feels very pleasant to see the green landscape passing by, sun shinning and blue sky.

Oops! Talked too soon. There comes the rain.

Cheers peeps!

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Back on the island of green

Ready for the last trip in Europe before leaving it. Yes!
Soon I'll be leaving Germany after 13 years on the Germanic ground. But this is stuff for the next post. This one is intended to be the initial report about my last trip in European.

Destination, better, destinations are Ireland and Northern Ireland. Roaming around the island of green and meeting my bro Junior in Dublin, my friend Will in Belfast and the globetrotter Travis Elenytski somewhere along the way.

Besides Dublin and Belfast, the Giants Causeway, Sligo, Limerick, cliffs of Moher, lots of nature and the local beer are in the plan.

It sounds just perfect for a farewell trip in Europe. Excited! Yay!
That's me along the way!

Cheers!