Apr. 26, 2019 - Kingscourt, IE

Ireland Day 12, Belfast, NI - Kingscourt, IE

Shades of Ireland: 13 days

Friday Apr. 26, 2019

7:50am suitcases

9:00am bus leaves

On-Bus tour guide Ken McElroy

• Cork WW (whisky and wild women)
• Belfast TT (Titanic ?
• Dublin GG (Guinness and ?
• Industries: ships, linen, rope, aircraft, tobacco
• Belfast, city of inventors
• Belfast City Hall
• Titanic Memorial Garden
• Late Victorian early Edwardian architecture
• Royal Avenue shopping stores
• Ulster Hall: Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin (first public performance of Stairway to Heaven)
• The Dublin Road, The Golden Mile (best bars in the city), The Old Coach Road to Dublin
• Trinity, Cork, Galway, and Belfast have institutions of higher education
• Queen's University Belfast, 1840’s, Tudor, gothic oxford-ish design, Sister to Queen's University in Kingston, ON, Canada
• Scotland is 12 miles away
• The Peace Wall is 2 miles long
• Shankill Road
• Prison, Crumlin Road Gaol driveby
• McHughs Bar, Queen's Square driveby (Road has the old river under it)\
• Titanic Quarter
• PRONI (Public Records of Norther Ireland) for ancestry
• Johnathin Swift, Gulliver' Travels, Cavehill looks like a sleeping giant

Belfast toast: "There are good ships, and there are wood ships, The ships that sail the sea. But the best ships, are friendships, And may they always be."

10:45am - 1:15pm Titanic Belfast

Lunch at Titanic Museum (soup and bread)

1:27pm RISE (aka 'Balls to the Falls') spherical metal sculpture

2:02pm intersection A1 to Dundalk (branches to A25 Newry, Camlough)

2:08pm County Louth (back in Republic of Ireland)

2:57pm Cabra Castle, Kingscourt

Rainy tour of courtyard

Drinks in the bar with Don, Sheila, Marlene, Ken, Lynnette and Terry

Dinner with Amanda, Mary, Don, Sheila, Marlene, Ken, Steve and Janet