Monday we drove along the Antrim Coast Road starting near Belfast and traveling along the water’s edge all the way up to the Giant’s Causeway and then down to Limavady where Lesley and her family live. The coast was absolutely beautiful!  The weather was a typical cloudy/rainy in Ireland so pictures didn’t do the view […]

Sunday for lunch we went to Karen and Alan’s house near Lisbane.  We had a roast with smashed potatoes, carrots, parsnips, onions, mushy peas, another kind of potato and sweet potato soup.  It was quite lovely! Hannah and Abigail would be Karen and Alan’s two daughters.  They also have a son, Matthew, but he and […]

Scrabo is about a 5 minute drive from Gwen and James’ house.  All four of us hiked to the top of the mountain, but we weren’t able to go inside the tower.  The view from the top was fantastic!

Gwen and James’ daughter, Karen took us shopping/sightseeing around the northern part of the Strangford Lough.  We started out in Newtownards where we went to a fabric shop called the Skip.  They had the most laminated fabrics I’ve ever seen in store. We also went down to a knit shop that they would call a […]

Castle Ward is constructed from two different styles.  The husband and wife couldn’t decide on what style to make it, so the front of the house is Georgian and the back of the house is Gothic.  It’s not just different on the outside, but it’s split down the middle on the inside as well with […]

Thursday: We walked to the square in Comber close to where Gwen and James live. On Friday, we drove from Comber to Strangford and stopped at several different places.  James took us around to several back country roads where we saw this pretty docking place.  Then we went on around to Killyleagh were we saw […]