Category: County Down

Friday's Featured Food: Lunch At The New Quays, Portavogie, Northern Ireland (The Most Easterly Pub in Ireland)

Friday’s Featured Food: Seafood Lunch At The New Quays, Portavogie, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️(The Most Easterly Pub in Ireland)

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“Take me back to the town where I was born, because I’m tired of being a stranger and I’m miles from home” – Noel Gallagher. I grew up in North Down, County Down, Northern Ireland. It’s my homeland and I’m a beach boy and a seaside city boy at heart. I spent most of my Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Seafood Lunch At The New Quays, Portavogie, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️(The Most Easterly Pub in Ireland)[…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The Oldest Irish Pub In The World, Grace Neill’s Donaghade, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️

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Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The Oldest Irish Pub In The World, Grace Neill’s Donaghade, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️ Grace Neill’s, located in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, is often cited as the oldest pub in Ireland, and as you can see on its website, it claims the title of the oldest, although this is often disputed. The history of Grace Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Visiting The Oldest Irish Pub In The World, Grace Neill’s Donaghade, Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️[…]

Backpacking In Northern Ireland: Getting The Ferry From Portaferry To Strangford

Backpacking In Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Getting The Ferry From Portaferry To Strangford

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“All this talk of getting old, it’s getting me down my love” – Richard Ashcroft. My early days of travelling were walking, cycling, car and ferry. I wasn’t really aeroplane loyal when I was young. Last month, I realised that I had Jumbo-jetted my aeroplane status by taking my 747th flight! Yes, I have now Read more about Backpacking In Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Getting The Ferry From Portaferry To Strangford[…]

Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Top 12 Sights in Blissful Ballyhalbert

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“It’s all too beautiful” – Small Faces. Despite what the tourist brochures and obvious tourists tell you, Northern Ireland’s charm lies not in Belfast and the Giant’s Causeway!! Nor in the Bushmills Distillery and the Carrick a Rede Rope Bridge! Even though I promoted them to the hilt myself many times and continue to tell Read more about Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Top 12 Sights in Blissful Ballyhalbert[…]

Backpacking In Northern Ireland: Visiting The UK's Two Closest Separate Football Clubs - Bangor FC and Bangor Amateurs FC

Backpacking In Northern Ireland: Visiting The UK’s Two Closest Separate Football Stadiums

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“The day we went to Bangor” – Fiddler’s Dram. Some people might glorify the fact that Notts County FC and Nottingham Forest FC in England are separated by a river – the Trent. Other people might glorify the fact that Dundee FC and Dundee United FC are separated by a road – Tannadice Street. And Read more about Backpacking In Northern Ireland: Visiting The UK’s Two Closest Separate Football Stadiums[…]

Backpacking in Northern Ireland: Touring Islandhill, Near Newtownards

Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Touring Islandhill, Near Newtownards

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In 1980 I was born in the Northern Irish town of Newtownards. It’s a place with a lot of important links in my life. I was born there. I passed my driving test there. I studied there. I got into university by doing a course there. Despite all of that, I grew up in the Read more about Backpacking in Northern Ireland🔴✋️☘️: Touring Islandhill, Near Newtownards[…]

15 Bars With Interesting Quirky Records I Was In

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“Spend your nightlife table hopping, trying to keep your bag of bones in trim” – Noel Gallagher. When travel used to be a thing, I loved the thrill of it all. I loved the crazy stuff, I needed even the sorrow amidst all that. The unrecognised countries, the secrets, the wacaday museums, the sadness at Read more about 15 Bars With Interesting Quirky Records I Was In[…]

#gawa #daretodream Living Out A Childhood Dream Supporting Northern Ireland: My Plans for June 2016

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“Michael O’Neill’s Green and White army” – Northern Ireland football fans. Now that June 2016 has arrived, it feels crazy that this month, I am finally living out a childhood dream. Since my early days growing up in Bangor, Northern Ireland I only had one dream in life. To watch the Northern Ireland international football Read more about #gawa #daretodream Living Out A Childhood Dream Supporting Northern Ireland: My Plans for June 2016[…]