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The Slieve Donard Hotel is located on the seafront of Newcastle, Co Down, where, as the song says, “the mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea”. Even on a good day, they are more just large hills than actual mountains, and the weather was so atrocious that we saw little of them from our…
Warning – long post with lots of pics. I am just back from a great weekend (well, one night, but seemed like a whole weekend!) at the Slieve Donard Hotel. It has been TWENTY years since we were at the very same hotel for the Graduation Ball of the Queens Medical class of ’91. Ten…
This afternoon we headed over to part of the North Coast of Northern Ireland which we don’t visit so often, the beach at Downhill, just beyond Castlerock. Downhill beach is a 7 mile stretch of golden sand from Magillan Point to Mussenden and apparently is one of the longest beaches in Europe. It was a…
We love to house swap (you may have noticed!) and have swapped 4 times in the last two years. One of the disadvantages of house swapping though, is you don’t often get to meet the other swapping family, despite having lots of long chatty emails asking and answering queries. When you see their photos of…
How’s that title for a bit of alliteration?!! One of the newest, largest and well equipped playgrounds in Northern Ireland has to be Wallace Park in Lisburn (although we might be slightly biased!). Here are a few images from this morning’s adventure in the park. There are some novel features I haven’t seen elsewhere…
It’s that time again, when half the world goes green crazy, and each year I am continually amazed at how Ireland is celebrated around the world! I’m JanMary, a blogger in Northern Ireland, and at this time of year I host a wee party to celebrate the celebrating of St Patrick!This is our 3rd year…
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