Schlagwort: sightseeing

Giants Causeway and a few more stops

Today Nick, Maria and I decided to do a little bit of sightseeing and bought a tour to Dunluce Castle, Giants Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede and our last stop was a nice little beach.
Our tour started at 9am, the bus picked us up at our language school, afterwards we went on and picked up a few more guys before we headed to the Dunluce Castle.
It took as about an hour and a half to reach our first stop Dunluce Castle. The weather at that point was very bad, it was raining during our drive to the castle and our stay there.
We stayed at the castle for about 20 minutes before we had to leave.

After we all gathered at the bus we headed towards Giants Causeway. It took us another 30 minutes to reach it. We stayed there for about 1hour 45minutes. Luckily the weather got better and it stopped to rain, besides a few minutes of rain every now and then. Even the sun came out and it stayed like that for the rest of our tour. The view is just amazing.

Our next stop was Carrick-a-Rede, it took us maybe 20minutes to reach it. Our driver dropped us out and told us that we got 1hr 15minutes before we have to leave. So we made our way to the bridge it took us 30 minutes from the parking lot to the bridge itself. The view during our walk to the bridge just amazing the weather was perfect, only a few clouds and sunshine.


Our last stop was the beach where we spend another 20 minutes which we (Nick, Maria and I) used to get some lunch and just relaxing from our journey. We made our way back to Belfast along the coastline which took us approximately 2hr.

..not enough time on a single day

On my second day in Dublin Angelo and I explored the city. At first we tried to figure out the public transportation via bus, which was more diffucult than we expected it to be. We drove to the city centre were we saw „The Spire“.

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From there we walked to the ministery district were we had a great view at „The Custom House“ and „The Ulster Bank“.

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Standing on a small bridge that crosses the „River Liffey“ we were planning the rest of our day. Since we were really hungry we decided to go to the „Temple Bar“ district and order some delicious italien food.

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After that, we picked up Toni and went to the famous „The Temple Bar“ in Temple Bar.The drinks were good but the prices not, but it was worth it.

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I would have loved to see more of Dublin, but there was not enough time on a single day.

Grocery shopping and a little bit of sightseeing

Today we went to the Belfast City Centre to pickup a prepaid Sim card, so we can call each other without paying anything. We chose O² as a provider since our colleagues from Dublin also got it so we can call/text them for free. Afterwards we did a little bit of ‘sightseeing’, although we basically just walked trough the town to see what Belfast has to offer and hell its a lot, even though its a rather small city compared to Berlin. You can find everything within a few meters, multiple places to eat, pubs and grocery stores.

Afterwards we did some grocery shopping to get the basics we need for at least a few days. The closest grocery store is a tesco express, it’s a 5-10 minute walk but its only a small version of tesco so you can’t get everything there you want. On Tuesday we’re going to a normal Tesco to buy more supplies for our stay.