Category: Northern Ireland
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what it’s like being stuck in a snowstorm in northern ireland
The Giant’s Causeway is huge area of basalt columns, all squeezed together. It is located in Country Antrim in Northern Ireland, which is about an hour drive from Belfast. The legend is that an Irish giant named Finn MacCool, was challenged to a fight by a Scottish giant, who lived right across the North Channel.…
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belfast in half a day
While I’m sure there’s more to Belfast than the Titanic Exhibition, we didn’t get a chance to see much. We only had one and a half days there – and our full day was already reserved for the Giant’s Causeway, leaving us with only about a half a day to explore the city. Here are…
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you’ll never guess how much it cost to build the rms titanic
$7,500,000! What a great bargain! Granted, that amount of money was worth a lot more 100 years ago but even so! Quick history lesson: The Titanic was built in 1912 in Belfast, the capital (and largest city) of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom (whereas the Republic of Ireland is…
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