Three weeks in the UK and Ireland.
Wow – what an experience.
I fell in love with a new part of the world, and I fell in love with a guy (Whoops, sorry Heart).
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Dublin: Guinness and Viking History
Guinness and Viking History: Two essential parts of Dublin.
Two parts of which I focused myself on during my travel in the Irish capital.
Blarney Castle and my hometown’s twin?
Climbing up a castle to lean over a cavity backwards in order to kiss a dirty old stone, hoping for a gift of eloquence – sounds like a normal thing to do, doesn’t it?
At Blarney Castle, near Cork in Ireland, it is.
The breathtaking Cliffs of Moher
On the western coast of Ireland, there is a little touch of what I imagine to be heaven.
The Cliffs of Moher were undoubtedly my favourite sight that my eyes beheld on my journey through Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Seriously, I fell deeply in love with this place – I could have built a little shack into a rocky hovel of the cliff face and lived there happily ever after.
It felt like the place of fairytales.
Exploring my family heritage in Northern Ireland
We’ve all got a history. That’s fact.
However, we may not all know our own history.
Do you know where you came from, really?
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Walking the Giants Causeway, Northern Ireland
We took the “ordinary” path for travellers doing a road trip across from Scotland to Ireland.
An early morning departure from Glasgow, driving down the highways to Cairnryan; ferry across from Cairnryan to Belfast; One night in Belfast then a trip to the Giants Causeway as we moved south.
An “ordinary” path filled with extraordinary sights, however.
Welcome to one of the most beautiful places on earth (in my official opinion): The Giants Causeway.
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What I packed for the UK and Ireland
So here’s something you may or may not already know: I’m headed to the UK and Ireland!
Well, by the time you read this I’ll already be there, but never mind that.
I thought I’d give you a peek into what and how I’m packing for this three-week trip, which will be a road trip of sorts (to give you some context)