Derry/Londonderry

November 19, 2017

I had to take a taxi to be sure I got to the Drogheda bus terminal for the 10:10 bus as the next would be a couple hours later.  I hate using taxis because of the cost.  10 minute €12/£10.65/$14.11. But making the trek with my kit would not have been wise. The whole bus […]

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Battle of the Boyne

November 18, 2017

All battlefields start the day the same way, as a field.  Be it corn, wheat, potatoes, whatever the crop, they are simply fields.  By the end of the day or the battle they are desecrated by the sin, blood and the horror of war.  Culloden, Gettysburg, Boyne it makes no difference, they are all the […]

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Drogheda – Ireland’s oldest town

November 17, 2017

When I realized I was close to the oldest town in Ireland, I had to visit.  Unfortunately this was one of the   times when public transport was very inconvenient in that the only bus service left the hotel just before 11 and returned at 12:45 not leaving much time.  So I did the hustle. […]

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Newgrange

November 16, 2017

Rather than take a tour bus from Dublin, an all day affair, I decided to spend a few days in the  Irish countryside. Donore is a few miles north of the capital and within easy walking distance to both the Battle of the Boyne historical site and the UNESCO World Heritage site of Newgrange. The […]

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Dublin

November 15, 2017

I had hit Dublin pretty hard in November of 2015 and so now it was simply an access point from the UK. There was nothing new I wanted to see having seen so much on the prior visit, and I even spend most of one day resting in my wee apartment, Dublin Viking Place, with […]

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Holyhead

November 12, 2017

When you approach Holyhead Island from either the train or ferry you cross this multi-million £ foot bridge.  Unfortunately the other side leads into a sad, tired town center.  Outside the center is nice but first impressions are not great. After yesterday’s trip to Beaumaris, I decided to wander the Holyhead shore.  Unfortunately the local […]

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Beaumaris Castle

November 10, 2017

When I crossed this foot bridge I was on the Holyhead Island. I had thought that Holyhead was a part of Anglesey until I was corrected in the Stanley Arms pub whilst awaiting my B&B check-in.  So that makes it 16 of the peopled British Isles so far: Britain Skye Mull Isle of Wight Ireland […]

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Little Orme

November 9, 2017

The forecasters had gotten it right ands today was a good day for hillwalking.  That’s Little Orme and my target for today.  I had a nice 1.92 mile walk along the promenade to the gate to climb the hill. Up and back were only a couple miles but way different than the flat.   Whilst […]

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Llandudno, Wales

November 7, 2017

Another seaside town with a great beach area, pier, 75’/23m wide promenade and an active high street.  Welsh is a tough language.  By that I mean impossible with a lot of guttural sounds.  The first man I met upon leaving the Whitehouse Hotel, which is on the promenade and quite nice and price for the […]

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Two Castles, One Day Part 2- Caernarfon Castle

November 7, 2017

Back on the bus to Bangor to transfer to the one taking me to Caenarfon.  Since I had a few minutes before the next bus I walked a bit if the town center stopping off at the cathedral. A site of Christian worship since 525 AD, it has been often destroyed and rebuilt.  The origins […]

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