our street in cushendall
filled with flowers
and friendly locals
high tea at culloden estate filled with tradition and treats
st. patrick’s cathedral in armargh
filled with flowers and family roots
glencraig school and community
for developmentally challenged people of all ages
filled with caring and compassion
titanic exhibit in belfast
filled with history, heroics, love, and loss
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Gorgeous Beth. I love the light, even when the sun is not out, the light has a different, softer quality than it does here.
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1+ Paul
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Lovely post, Beth, and beautiful pictures.
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The flowers look so cute.
Earlier I had an option to move to Belfast end of the year, but doesn’t look like anymore!
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I think you would have liked it –
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Yeah, let’s see where I land up end of the year!
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beautiful picture and narration
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Thank you
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my pleasure
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Nice post. i went there last year. A wonderful experience!
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It is wonderful
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Lovely pictures Beth! Thank you for sharing these.😊
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Northern Ireland has a special place in my memories. Thanks for your photos that help those moments linger with me.
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Oh, I’m so glad –
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Wish that I could go there someday.
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Hopefully you will )
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A trip you will never forget. Lovely. 🙂
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Yes
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Beautiful!!
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Ireland, from tip to tip. I get giddy thinking of it. It will be sad when you have to leave.
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It will )
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The secret is out! Lovely Beth 😎
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It is!
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So many flowers! Love it. And high tea. Love that, too!
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Beautiful photos!
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☘
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Different people have chosen different ways, over the years, of capturing a little of the North. I like yours very much.
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Thank you so much –
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How wonderful. Love the homes, in the first picture. All the flowers and gates.
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Yes, they are full of life –
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Love the photographs and seeing the cool adventures you’ve been on. Wishing you a continuous happy journey to you 🙂
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Did you visit the Titanic Museum? Jose and I went — and saw those messages you showed here. We were stunned by it all.
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Yes, and we were the same-
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So glad you saw it. It was one of the best museums we’ve ever seen.
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The tea time location was charming. I particularly liked the pictures “treats,” yummy! Your first road along a white house made me fall in love with the pretty setting! ❤
I noticed the Glen Craig School and their community window. So glad Ireland is catching up with how to present education for all, including those with challenges and developmental delays, Beth. They are extremely tough in one part of Ireland towards teenagers. My sister in law teaches at Baldwin Wallace about tribes and heritage. I wrote a post about this, I believe. She takes college students there to study for nearly a month, an aspect of culture upon the high schoolers.
The Belfast art project they worked on side by side with Irish expelled high schoolers was astonishing; considering the short time they were there.
Susan has been to Ireland, Scotland and England with her classes moving to immerse into other countries. Her students and she have traveled to South Africa, along with many Native American pow wow's here in the U.S., . .
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Each experience has been truly unique and wonderful in its own way –
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Wonderful post, as usual, but I have to focus on the Titanic Museum. It’s a very imaginative and creative place, and I hope you got the chance to visit it at night when the outlines of the Titanic and Olympic are lit up behind the building, showing where they actually constructed both ships. That seemingly-simple tribute was just such a humanistic moment to experience, full of immensity and loss…
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We went during the day, so I didn’t have that experience, but it was intensely powerful even as it was –
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Loved this, Beth, forwarded it to my friend who enjoyed her tour of The North, which she said few tourists go on. Thanks for sharing it!
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Great and my pleasure )
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My ancestors left pieces of their hearts there.
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as did mine –
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Lovely photos. Those FLOWERS! 🙂 I adore flowers in baskets and pots.
Paige
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Thank you, Paige, me too )
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Lovely pictures, especially that dessert tower. 🙂 Thanks for sharing your journey. Ireland is on my bucket list.
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my pleasure, amber, and i do hope that you make it here –
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Wonderful Beth, photos and narrative. The last messages.. So so sad.
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thanks, jen. the titanic exhibition was gutting.
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Yes they brought the exhibition over here and it was heartbreaking.
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Inviting and warm, what a beautiful place. You’ve captured all of the North’s beauty and made me yearn for it. Culloden estate is just glorious.
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thank you so much, i hoped to catch a glimpse of what it’s like and you are right about the estate )
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