Before coming to Belfast I knew that I wanted to learn some more about the “Troubles”, that incredibly turbulent time in Northern Ireland history that had been such common news on the news broadcasts when I was a teenager. So I booked us on a tour this morning, Paddy Campbell’s…
Kippers! After two weeks of “Full Scottish” and “Full Irish” breakfast I was excited to see Kippers on the menu this morning.I haven’t eaten them for years, and very nice they were too. It ws drizzly again in the morning but as we approached the border with Northern Ireland the…
We had the breakfast room to ourselves this morning so the proprieter came over to chat with us is a friendly way. When we had our Pub Crawl tour in Dublin, the musician told us all that the Irish will always want to know all about you, they’re just naturally…
It took us several minutes to get over Killaloe Bridge this morning, waiting our turn while the complicated traffic light system funnels about 6 separate streets worth of traffic over the narrow bridge. However, eventually we were driving along the shore of Lough Derg, a little gobsmacked at the very…
When most people think of Ireland they think Dublin, Belfast, Killarney, Limerick etc, but not many think of Killaloe. However for me it was a must visit location in Ireland and I’m very excited to be staying the night in the town…more to come on that later… The B &…
We were lucky with our weather the last few days in Ireland but today we had a taste of the rain that makes the Emerald isle..Emerald! We woke to grey skies but a pretty view from our room, looking back towards the church. Just before nine we headed off to…
Another early start this morning as I’d booked the rental car for 8am. We were aiming to cross the country from East to West so needed plenty of time up our sleeves. I’d booked the car at the Sixt office almost across the road from the hotel which meant minimal…
We finally treated ourselves in a bit of a sleep in this morning! It felt a bit indulgent to be going down to breakfast at 9.15am. A very busy breakfast, the hotel (The Academy Plaza) seems to be pretty full. Breakfast finished we hit the road on our walking tour…
After spending the evening trying to make each of our bags function like Dr Who’s Tardis and knowing we had to be up and at breakfast by 6.30 am neither of us slept very well. Luckily the breakfast at the Crowne Plaza Aberdeen Airport was a good one and the…
We woke to a greyer day today and a long drive ahead so there was no relaxing lie in ( although, who am I kidding, we almost NEVER have a relaxing lie on on our holidays!) . We drove back through the town of Thurso but this time headed off…
It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally on our way. We indulged ourselves with a “night before” stay at the Rydges at Sydney Airport. It’s lovely to toast the start of the trip with some bubbly in the bar and on our last two stays we’ve been upgraded…
