Since the last time this worked

Have so many pics saved I’ll try get them going now

Dublin

Test again.  Seeing again if it works

Drogheda

The political turmoil is just breaking my heart. 

The next generation can change it!  Knowledge is power!  Religion, politics don’t matter. Peace

Is all that matters. It’s absolutely heartbreaking!  A unified Ireland is the only hope!   So so sad

Even though I thought a few days ago were 

Our last few days, now we are on our last few 

Days. Good thing I have your dad with me!  I

Would be So lost!  Literally!  Directions and departure are huge blocks!  Anyway really enjoying our time here. Lovely city. Dad is getting ready foran important horse race. Me sudoku has my attention. 

Steps

Getting our steps in one way or t’other. 

To me they looked like the backyardigans but they were called something else. Forgot to take a picture of the name. 

Armagh

Coming to the last days of our trip. Can honestly 

Say we have seen a lot of Ireland. One of our 

Favourite cities was Derry. Although we were 

There last weekend we thought we might go 

Back. Very sadly violence and riots erupted there last night. So sad that violence is such a real 

Fear here still. Our experience here after 

Speaking with locals is they all seem to want a united ireland. Such a shame they must still deal with political unrest.   Instead we found the beautiful city of Armagh where we will spend a few days. Lovely so lovely 

Granny Annie’s

In the coolest place EVER!  Was going to ale some pics but really couldn’t do the place justice. 

It is so decorated with antiques EVERYWHERE. 

I’m going to try download some just because 

They’ll be much better than I could ever take. 

And you guys thought we had so many clocks!

Yes this is the bathroom!

So many things hanging from the ceiling 

Stairs that don’t reach the floor 

My favourite. An actual carriage hanging from the roof.

Crumlin jail

What an experience. Arrested during “the troubles”. Man we could spend a week here and not see it all. We are now at the titanic experience. Every day a new experience!

Crumlin Gael (jail)

Just so you all know ..... not to mention any 

Names.....CHELSEY dad is over six feet!

THERE!

For Maya and Eli and possibly Isaac

First Isaac , we sure hope you are feeling better. It’s just no fun to be under the weather but Opa and gramma are thinking about you all the time!  

Don’t know if you know guys but C S Lewis comes from Belfast. There is a square here named 

For him. I hope you can see the picture. They tellus the real wardrobe is there!  Don’t know if we’llhave time for it but we did see the building. 

And just for tradition here’s the token “selfie”!

Love to you all!

Belfast

So we didn’t get everything done today. Hoping we’ll get another night in our hotel and finish off tomorrow. That of course is all up in the air at the moment but we’ll see. Such a fantastic city!  

So much history!   The boys at the pubs were just talking too much so we missed a few buses!  Shame on them!  Guess it’s not every day they 

Get friendly Canadians!   Ha!

Still Belfast

Toured the city a bit. After Gramma has a glass of wine we’re off to tour the place where the 

Titanic was built. The architecture here is so amazing!

Kind of the same shot of then and now. 

Inside hotel Europa 

Bobby Sands 

Parliament buildings that don’t get used because they can’t get along well enough to even have a session!

Belfast

Dad changed his hat so as not to be politically incorrect. Thinking a Dublin hat would not be so 

Welcome in Belfast. Just saying. 

Back at the Crown Bar

We’re back here for breakfast and it’s a whole lotquieter. They’ve got these little privacy booths. Looks more like a confessional. Guess we can killtwo birds with one stone! 

Funny bars are all open but they don’t serve liquor till noon.  Guess they make their buck however they can. 

So so cool!

Belfast

So I guess you’ve figured out that I think I may have figured out the blog. The place we’re now in is absolutely amazing!  According to the sign thehotel Europa was the site of 50 bombings in the 1970 s yet survived.  We don’t hear much of a

War in the 70 s yet here it’s very recent history 

What a history!

Belfast

This is unlike anything we’ve EVER seen!!!!

Belfast

Although we didn’t expect to be here for a few 

Days, here we are!

I guess we’ll check it out!  Should be exciting!

Ireland pictures

Having a great time just wandering around. Havespent a lot of time in Northern Ireland. So cold and windy. We have stayed close to the ocean fora number of days but to walk it is so cold. Dad has that exercise app on his phone. We’ve done I’d say an average of 8-10 kms a day!  Quite

Something for us non hikers. A lot of that has been up or down hills and not just small ones either. What a beautiful country!

Found Pumba!

Meant so much to be right in this spot!

These pics are mostly from Derry

Time out!

Got an unintentional time out yesterday.  Dad left to go get a snack at a gas station yesterday and as he walked away he locked the car while I was texting.  COULDN'T GET OUT!!!!  I had the phone so couldn't even text him!  Had to wait for him to figure out I wasn't coming.  Yeah even though it took a few minutes, he did return!  Learned something new!

Giants Causeway

Just for you Keri 

And for you Maya Eli and Isaac. Opas looking for sea glass