County Belfast The first things you see on entering the city are the huge cranes of the Harland & Wolff Shipyards. It was here that the Titanic was built. We crossed over the Queen’s Bridge with its lanterns dating to 1843. Passing the slightly leaning Albert Memorial Clock Tower, built in 1867, I found Belfast [...]
County Louth Continuing north from Slane on N2, we opted again for an inland route rather than the coastline, because I wanted to go through Ardee. The coast road was just ahead and we wouldn’t veer far from it from then on. Ardee was said to have two castles. Well, they were small affairs, separated [...]
County Meath Traveling on country lanes, bordered by a thick growth of Queen Anne’s Lace in bloom, we thought the countryside of County Meath was as pretty as a movie set. It was just like I had glimpsed over Shannon – flat, undulating, GREEN land, full of grazing sheep; houses and cottages each with its [...]
County Dublin The plane swung out wide over the Irish Sea and presented me with a sweeping view of Dublin Bay before descending over the Howth Peninsula to land. There were large patches of green in the water. Earlier I had my first glimpse of Ireland when we had landed at Shannon to pick up [...]
Sandy Robert lives in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the most beautiful urban areas in the USA. It is also “the party capital of the world!” The author, in Jaipur, India on her latest trip to India, Nepal and Tibet. However, she has wanderlust! She has been to over sixty countries, [...]
