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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Ireland Part 4: Northern Ireland

The last leg of our trip was to Northern Ireland, which is where my grandmother is from. We went to Bangor to see where my grandparents met. We also did a day in Belfast, touring the city and seeing the house my grandmother used to live in! And one day all the way north at a place called Giant's Causeway, which had beautiful scenery! It was amazing!
Cliffs at Giant's Causeway
At Giant's Causeway, it was beautiful!! Sitting in the giant's chair!
There was this section on Giant's Causeway that had all this natural pillars. they were amazing!
Crossing a rope bridge!Donegal Castle near Giant's Causeway
In Dublin... all cities a little towns had a clocktower in their city center and a church, no matter how small the town. If you look closely, you can see that this one is leaning!
This is the house my grandmother lived in when she lived in Ireland. In fact this is the very house she was in during WWII when a bomb landed at the end of their street!
In Bangor, my grandparents met close to this clocktower! she was sitting on the sea wall when my grandfather first talked to her. Although the sea wall is no longer there, I was able to sit on a little wall by the clocktower! Do you see me? By the harbor in Bangor Castles... castles everywhere....










2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing a little bit of family history with us.

The wofford's

Andy said...

i want to live in a castle.

no really i do.

but really the pics are great. thanks for posting them. i love seeing where you guys were able to go. i love stuff like this. hope to go one day.