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  • Sheryl BurgessGoing to greener pastures
    Day 4

    Day 4 Traveling to Magherafelt N Ireland

    October 5, 2017 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    The day started magnificently with a beautiful morning. We headed off to Trim Castle located in the town of Trim. This castle was used in the Braveheart movie. The castle was constructed in the early 1100's. From here we headed up to Kells. Here we seen the celtic cross and some old cathedrals. We had lunch here in a little cafe and headed up to our accomodation for the next two evenings. The accomodation is Dewhamill B&B. Lovely place and our room overlooks the lake. Highly recommend it. For dinner we headed to the Elk.Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessGoing to greener pastures
    Day 4

    Day 3 Dublin to Bru na boinne

    October 5, 2017 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

    Started the day at St Patricks Cathedral. There had beem a church on that site sice 800's. The new church on that site was constructed in 1191 and has many crypts inside it like the author of Gullivers travels, Harry Swift.
    We checked out of the Paramount Hotel today and jumped on the hop on hop off bus and travelled around to the old jail were we got off and walked a little ways to the Budget car hire place and we picked up a little car. From here we navigated out of Dublin taking a few wrong turns tring to get used to the Map.me app that is an offline app that proven to be very useful and it is a free app. We made our way to Bru na boinne which was around an hour up the road. A little longer as we took a couple of wrong turns and ended up on the M1 rather than the M50. We got there.
    We pulled into the visitor centre and when on a tour. Lucky for us today they were doing tours for free. Bonus! We got on the bus and went up to Bru na boinne or Knorth site were we walked around the site and found out about the Neolithic people that were at the site building these carnes between C.3000 - 2000BC. The carns were used to bury their dead in them, that much they know. Other than what they have discovered from excavating the sites they know very little else as information had not been passed down through the generations. Interesting place and quiet amazing how they managed to engineer such sturctures that the roof does not leak even to this day. They were constructed around the time pyrimids in Eygpt were constructed.
    We checked into Newgrange Lodge for the night and went to Slane Castle for dinner. Dinner was excellent and a great recommendation from the Lodgings.    Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessGoing to greener pastures
    Day 3

    Dublin Day 2

    October 4, 2017 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C

    Spent the day exploring. Headed off to the Guinness Factory for a tour. Spent a few hours there. going through the distillary building. Great tour. From here we caught the hop on hop off bus and traveled around for a bit on it. We got of at Trinity College as we wanted to look at the old harp and the book of kells. The place was packed with people but mostly uni students and it was like a mad house so we didn't hang around. From here we walked up the road a bit and came across Molly Malones statue. Onwards from here we headed to Dublin castle which has the State rooms open for viewing. Very interesting place and they even went to details about the make up that the woman would wear that contained lead. Needless to say they did not live long as they died from lead posioning. They had lead in the white powder that was used to colour the hair white to. The price of vanity and status. From the castle we went up past St Patricks church to Teillings Distillary were we did a wisky tourn. This was good to and Clint got to have my share of the wisky so he had a double helping. The road we travelled along to get to and from the distillary was fantastic. Its a place I would enjoy living in i reckon. For dinner we went up to Dublin's oldest pub, the Brazen Head. It was established in 1198. We had the Irish Stew which was delicious and we struggled to eat it all. Weather was lovely today. No rain and the temp was around 11 degrees.Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessGoing to greener pastures
    Day 1

    Dublin

    October 2, 2017 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Arrived in Dublin at lunch time. Flight was pretty good from Dubai but it was good to get off the plane after traveling 30 hours from Townsville with connecting flights. The weaterr was sunny and 11 degrees when we arrived but it was pretty windy,. We had purchased a Dublin 3 day pass before we left so we activated it at the airport by catching a connecting bus to the city at Oconnell bridge at Temple Bar not far from our hotel.
    We are staying 2 nights at the Paramount Hotel in Temple Bar.
    The afternoon was spent checking into our accomodation and wondering around the liffy looking around a bit. We headed over to Dublinina which was located at the rear of the old Christ Church Cathedral. This was actually a great way to start as we found out about Dublin's early history and how it was founded by the Vikings. The Cathedral was on the way out from the Viking ehibition. A beatuful old church that had rooms below it dating back to 12 century.
    After leaving the Cathedral, we heeaded down and along the liffy just for a look and tried to find Jamiesons distillary even though it is closed for renos at the moment we thought we might find it. We were unsuccessful as Clin't map didn't have it shown on it so we will try again tomorrow. We were getting hungry so decided to head back to a place called the larder. Lovely little place that we stopped into before heading off to the hotel (we coulldn't find the entrance to hotel and Clint needed to go to a loo). I needed a cuppa tea and we needed to get our bearings. This is the place we went back to for dinner. It is a lovely little place and the food is good as well as the people very friendly. We had dinner there and the chicken wings were amazing as well as the steak very tasty and headed back to the hotel as we were starting to get a bit spent from traveling.    Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessNew Zealand Oct 2016
    Day 23

    Journey pictures

    November 7, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

    The countryside in New Zealand is differnt from coast to coast. The West side is harsh and weathered whilst the eastside is picturesc with its rolling green hills. All of the country is amazing and green and there is water a plenty. Gods country really.Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessNew Zealand Oct 2016
    Day 20

    Christchurch

    November 4, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Back in Christchurch this afternoon after a lovely drive from Hanmer. The weather is lovely but windy in Christchurch and the wind is cold coming off the alps. Staying at the Amber Park cararvan park and it is a lovely little park.
    Day 2, headed off to the city this morning to see whats happening in there. We caught a bus into the city centre and walked to Cathedral Square to catch the tram which was a hop on hop off tram. We walked past the city Cathedral and it was an in your face reminder of the earthquake that struck Christchurch back in 2011. The biggest earthquake to hit New Zealand in 80yrears. It was interesting to see the amount of work going on to rebuild the city and to realise the magnetude of the devestation. Entire roads were being ripped up not just because they were damaged but because the infrastructue underground was badly damaged. Entire buildings have had to be demolished from site deemed too dangerous. The city in their wisdom decided to get shop holders up and running again by having them sell out of shipping containers. This has proven a novil idea and is working well. The tram is an excellant way to see the city.
    Day 3, went to the Riccardon Market for a look. It was ok but we expected to see some homemade things like jams and cakes etc. Thre were none of these. Popped into a pub for lunch and had a fish and chips. The fish was Gurder fish and it was delicious. The food was good but the women where cranky. Next off to the Antartic Centre. This is a great attraction and we all thouroghly enjoyed it.    Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessNew Zealand Oct 2016
    Day 19

    Hanmer Springs

    November 3, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

    Arrived at Hanmer Springs this afternoon around 4pm after leaving Nelson at lunch time. We stopped on route for a pie at Wakefield and this was delicious. It had started raining at smoko and continued to rain all the way to the outskirts of Hanmer Springs. The wather was lovelin in Hanmer on arrival but a littlle windy. We met up with Ron and Gail and Barb and
    Gary. It is a balmy 10degrees here this afternoon.
    Next day we headed off to the thermal pools. These were amazing. Only spent a few hours there and then went for a quick walk up town to have a look at a couple of shops. Hanmer is a lovely little town.    Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessNew Zealand Oct 2016
    Day 17

    Nelson

    November 1, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ 🌬 11 °C

    Kiwi and Kellie's place. Landed in Nelson and went for a run up to the shops at Richmond. Met up with Kellie and had lunch at the Stable resturant near the shopping centre. Got some groceries at the pack and save for tea. Kiwi cooked up a lamb roast for dinner. It was beautiful.
    Next day we were suposed to go fishing but the weather was too windy so Kiwi took us around the place and showed us a few things. We went to a hippi self supporing comunity and had a date scone and tea. Bloody beautful. We also got some fresh unhomoginised milk out of the dispenser. Cost us $2.50 for the litre and we had to bring out own bottle. It was delicious. We moved on from here and went the Muture were Kiwi grew up. This place was first settled by Germans many moons ago. The distict grows grapes for wines and hops as well as sheep of course. We had a real fruit icecream and Kiwi cooked us up a really nice dinner of scolops. blue code and we had venisin and gourmet sausages to. Kellie was headng out to an Abba tribute show which she managed to get a couple of tickets for Gail and I and the trhee of us went into the Theatre Royal for the show. It was great.
    Next day we stayed until lunch and then headed off to Hanmer Springs. Gail and Ron left early as they were meeting Barb and Gary at the Kahuna caravan park to head down the coast through Blenheim and onto Kikora to see the seals. From there they headed into Hanmer.    Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessNew Zealand Oct 2016
    Day 16

    Kaiteriteri

    October 31, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    After leaving Murchison at 2pm we drove to Kaiteriteri. Took us around 2hrs . The road was windie in some places but amazing scenery along the way. We arrived at Kaiteriteri and was suprised by the bay in which it is situated in. Lovely wee place to stay the night.Read more

  • Sheryl BurgessNew Zealand Oct 2016
    Day 15

    Murcheson

    October 30, 2016 in New Zealand ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    Stayed overnight at the Riverview Camp gound. Wondered around Murchison around lunch time. Not much open on a Sunday. Filled up with fuel and parked up to have lunhc at the Commercial Hotel in town. Had a great steak sandwhich and chips. Went onto the van park and got a spot for the night. The van park was located near the town cemetery and by a river. The river was lovely but too cold to swim in.
    Next day Clint and I left the others as they went onto Nelson. We took a jet boat ride on the Buller river. We also had a go at the cable harness ride across the gorge. We had to walk across a long suspention bridge to get to both the cable ride and the jet boat. All great things to do.
    Once we finished at the canyon we went back into town and had a pie from the blue tea shop. These were homemade and bloody beautiful.    Read more

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