I am writing this review on my latest and greatest holiday, I say abroad which is kind of true but actually I am going to the republic of Ireland, as I am writing this review I'm on holiday and writing it on my pocket PC. This is not such a 'review' it is more about what I did, a diary. I am ... Read review
weeks date as shown on top of page, the size of each page is approximately 15.5 x 11 inches (395x280). All are genuine antique prints and not modern copies, the Illustrated London News is an illustrated magazine which was first printed in 1842 and is the finest pictorial example of a historic social record of British and world events up to the present day. The ILN is known for its coverage of the following subjects the wars, ships, boats, guns, sailing, portraits, fine art, old and antique prints, wood cut, wood engravings, early photographs, Victorian life, Victorian culture, kings, queens, royalty, travels, adventures, natural history, birds, fish, mammals, fishing, hunting, shooting, fox hunting, sports including tennis, cricket, football, horse racing, politics and many more items of interest founded by Herbert Ingram may 14th 1842.
scan size is approximately 15.5 x 11 inches (395x280). All are genuine antique prints and not modern copies the Graphic is an illustrated newspaper and is a fine example of a historic social record of British and world events up to the present day. The Graphic is known for its coverage of the following subjects the wars, ships, boats, guns, sailing, portraits, fine art, old and antique prints, wood cut, wood engravings, early photographs, Victorian life, Victorian culture, kings, queens, royalty, travels, adventures, natural history, birds, fish, mammals, fishing, hunting, shooting, fox hunting, sports including tennis, cricket, football, horse racing, politics and many more items of interest.
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London News dated 1866, an illustrated weekly newspaper weeks date as shown on top of page, the size of each page is approximately 15.5 x 11 inches (395x280). All are genuine antique prints and not modern copies, the Illustrated London News is an illustrated magazine which was first printed in 1842 and is the finest pictorial example of a historic social record of British and world events up to the present day. The ILN is known for its coverage of the following subjects the wars, ships, boats, guns, sailing, portraits, fine art, old and antique prints, wood cut, wood engravings, early photographs, Victorian life, Victorian culture, kings, queens, royalty, travels, adventures, natural history, birds, fish, mammals, fishing, hunting, shooting, fox hunting, sports including tennis, cricket, football, horse racing, politics and many more items of interest founded by Herbert Ingram may 14th 1842.
London News dated 1866, an illustrated weekly newspaper weeks date as shown on top of page, the size of each page is approximately 15.5 x 11 inches (395x280). All are genuine antique prints and not modern copies, the Illustrated London News is an illustrated magazine which was first printed in 1842 and is the finest pictorial example of a historic social record of British and world events up to the present day. The ILN is known for its coverage of the following subjects the wars, ships, boats, guns, sailing, portraits, fine art, old and antique prints, wood cut, wood engravings, early photographs, Victorian life, Victorian culture, kings, queens, royalty, travels, adventures, natural history, birds, fish, mammals, fishing, hunting, shooting, fox hunting, sports including tennis, cricket, football, horse racing, politics and many more items of interest founded by Herbert Ingram may 14th 1842.
London News dated 1866, an illustrated weekly newspaper weeks date as shown on top of page or in title, the scan size is approx 16 x 11.5 inches (405x290). All are genuine antique prints and not modern copies, the Illustrated London News is an illustrated magazine which was first printed in 1842 and is the finest pictorial example of a historic social record of British and world events up to the present day. The ILN is known for its coverage of the following subjects the wars, ships, boats, guns, sailing, portraits, fine art, old and antique prints, wood cut, wood engravings, early photographs, Victorian life, Victorian culture, kings, queens, royalty, travels, adventures, natural history, birds, fish, mammals, fishing, hunting, shooting, fox hunting, sports including tennis, cricket, football, horse racing, politics and many more items of interest founded by Herbert Ingram may 14th 1842.
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A review by ste231191 on General: Ireland October 24th, 2005
Author's product rating:
Value for Money
Good
Sightseeing
Excellent
Shopping
Average
Nightlife
Good
Ease of getting around
Excellent
Advantages:
Beautiful Scenery, full of information, stacks of history
Disadvantages:
capital too crowded
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
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I am writing this review on my latest and greatest holiday, I say abroad which is kind of true but actually I am going to the republic of Ireland, as I am writing this review I'm on holiday and writing it on my pocket PC. This is not such a 'review' it is more about what I did, a diary. I am going to Ireland with all my family except my dad because he couldn't get the time off work but we went with my Nan as part of a birthday present.
-*-*- Setting off -*-*- We had to set off really early on the Friday morning about 6am but we had to get to the boat for am (in case you hadn't gathered we are sailing to Dublin) we got to the boat at about half 7 which gave us time to sit in the passenger lounge which was not too bad as it had toys for the children to play with, a TV, a few chairs and a coffee machine. We waited in there for about half an hour and then we were on board the vessel. Upon boarding we had to check in at reception and then to find our seats. The ship was totally amazing! I had never seen anything like it there were a few big TV's a bar, shop and even a football table. It was very cozy inside and even a few arcade games. We knew that we was going to have 2 meals on board but we didn't know that we were going to have a meal before we had even departed and it was sort of a breakfast type buffet that had bacon, sausages etc. And I can say and I'm sure if you asked any people on the ship that it was one of the nicest meals ever had it was much nicer than any packed meals that you can get on the plane I could go on forever which am not going to but to sum up the boat was really amazing. On board the in-store shop all the things there was duty free stuff this was very cheap.
-*-*- Ireland -*-*-
After quite a marvelous trip we got in our car and were off to find our hotel, little did we know that it would be a long trip. But before I go into all that let me tell you what I thought of Dublin, well it wasn't what I would have expected I thought it would be a lot quieter but as it was the capital you may have expected it to be a bit crowded. We got on the right road that we wanted that was towards Bré pronounced Bray in English and our hotel was just outside it. We got to Bray pretty easily but then there was three separate roundabouts and we figured that it would be round here and we were half right but after we could not find it, we turned to the traditional way of asking the locals but we had to ask a few, and after a drive that should of took 34minutes (it actually took 2 1\2 hours.) We had arrived at our hotel the Ramada plaza.
-*-*- Our hotel -*-*-
When we finally reached our hotel we were reasonably satisfied with the standards that were given, the receptionist was very helpful with the check-in and we were fairly swift with everything. You did not have a key to get into the room instead a magnet and when those magnets matched they let you into the room which I found was rather impressive. Everything in the room was very good and the main thing was that it was very clean.
-*-*- Day 1 -*-*-
After a well earned rest we were ready to start exploring Ireland and our first plan was to go to the little and quiet village of Glendeloche which was the type of Ireland I was hoping to get to...
Glendeloche - Pronounced Glen - der lock, you may be familiar that Ireland has a lot of history behind it and one of the great stories was the story on St. Kevin he was a monk and his monastery was in Glendeloche, he educated himself and all of his life he studied biblical scriptures, when we were at Glendeloche we actually visited his monastery and the chapel and it was a totally beautiful site, I can't describe how nice the scenery and settings were, there was a slow running river underneath the monastery, and there stood the oldest Celtic cross in Ireland. It was truly fascinating to learn about the history of how the monks used to hide away from the Vikings and how they led such a simple life. If you ever visit this place I recommend it strongly and it only takes a couple of hours to look round and its about an hour away from the capital Dublin, another reason for visiting this if you don't have a lot of money because it is free to get in.
Gaol - This is pronounced jail in English and that's what it is, the Gaelic word for jail. After we visited Glendeloche the gaol was just 10 minutes down the road, we arrived there and within 5 minutes the tour guide was there to take us around, this wasn't just because we were there with luck but because they have a separate tour guide for each family! But the tour guide only gave us a tour for the first five or ten minutes to give us a but of background information and then it was us who went round and found the information. There was a sheet that you could have done but I didn't because I was on holiday, and you don't write in the holidays you save that for school. So we started our tour about how the jail had developed from crowding all the prisoners in one room into the different cells. One of the cool things that I liked about the prison was the sensors inside the cells and so when you entered they detected you were there and started the audio things. They had life-size models wherever you went just to give you a little idea of what it was like. One of the main things in the prison was torture and as you go round you can actually see them being tortured. I really liked this (like all teenage lads would) but I don't think that it is really suitable for the children that are under five years old, my brother (who is 5) was pretty scared but he got over it. As the prison was actually being used a couple of hundred years ago there is real graffiti scratched in the beds from the earlier prisoners it is really great to read what they were thinking. I reckon that it's really interesting for people who can understand it. The price to get in was €3.50 for children, €4.50 for adults and €4.00 for pensioners, I think that this is really great value for money for the fascinating information that it provides.
Seafront - After the quite adventurous day at the two locations we settled down to a meal in a restaurant outside the seafront in Bray this is a town that was quite different from Dublin as in it was reasonably quieter and pleasant Irish music playing in the background. It is quite amazing to see the differences between two towns 10 miles apart in that Bray was a lot nicer and quieter.
-*-*- Day 2 -*-*-
Today is a Sunday and what better day to go into the capital, well to be more precise to go to phoenix park, this is the biggest park in Europe and this is what we did...
Phoenix Park - My mum had told me about this, how it was the biggest park in Europe and how she had visited it when she was a kid but I could not of imagined how big it was! It was the equivalent size of Kent! It was humoungous and I didn't know how much stuff there would be to do. But the first thing we did was went to Dublin zoo which was located inside Phoenix Park.
Dublin zoo - If you have an attraction inside an attraction for example if you were at a theme park and there were go karts it doesn't specialize in the karts but in the park. Here in Phoenix Park they had the zoo inside the park and I didn't think that it would be anything special, oh how wrong I was. It was a proper big business and I thought it was a petting zoo! It was the size of Chester zoo and was great fun. In the zoo obviously they had the animals but when you where viewing the animals they had an information board that told you all about the animals like, name of animal, where it originated from, gestation period, diets and a lot more, this was quite interesting information to read. Once you are viewing the animals they have big 15 x 15 foot glass that you can look through instead of a small little tiny window. If you have ever been to a Disneyland or Alton towers you may have noticed that it has been split up into different worlds (you may not get what I mean but anyway) in the zoo it was split up into different worlds, one of them is called the African Plains and you may of guessed that this was all to do with Africa. Once you enter this world you are taken aback it actually looks like Africa, you can walk round it all but for a cheap fare you can get a train, in my opinion I think this is a better way of getting round because although you can read the very helpful information boards you hear a audio tour and the man has an African voice so it adds that little extra reality. The animals that you are able to see in the African plains and the rest of the park are, Elephants, different types of monkeys, lions, jaguars, sea lions, penguins, reptiles. They do have various shows that go on throughout the day I'm sure that these are very entertaining but we didn't go because we wanted to get other stuff done. The price to get into the zoo is €15 for adults, €13.50 for children under 16, €10.50 for OAP's and children that are under 3 get in free. You can get family tickets and I worked out that these actually are cheaper than paying for them individually. If you are going to go here I recommend that you spend a whole day here not a part of the day like we intended to do.
And this brought our second day in Ireland to a close, phoenix park is the biggest park in Europe and now I've seen it I can believe it, this is a great day out for all ages and it is situated about 5 miles just outside Dublin.
-*-*- Day 3 -*-*-
Luckily for me today we didn't have anything planned so that meant that I could stay in bed. But when I finally did decide to rise the family had already planned out what we were going to do. And that was to go to the local aquarium.
Bré sea life center - I had never really been to an aquarium well not that I can remember, and so I thought that today would be pretty exiting day. The aquarium was great, you can probably guess what was there the fish or whatever and a little bit of information. One of the things that I found quite a good idea was they had a fish tank designated to finding nemo. So they had two clown fish that represented Nemo and Marlin, a Blue fish which I have forgotten the name of who was Dory, they had other characters like Bubbles and Jacques the cleaner fish, once you had seen the actual fish and there details I actually think the animators were amazing. Also in the aquarium they had feeding times for the fish and you could watch them. Another good thing for the kids was that you were given a little sheet at the beginning when you paid and it is a scratch card, but there are questions throughout the exhibition and you get to answer the questions this is a little extra fun for the kids. Once you get to the end there is a soft play area and although I wasn't really allowed in but I did and it was really fun. The prices for this are €3 for child (under 16) and €5 for adults (over 16) this is a very reasonable price for a great day out.
This is all we did for this day because it took up most of the day. This is a must see attraction if you are around Bray and it is 20 minutes drive out of the capital, Dublin.That was our last day in Ireland because the next day we got up at 6 am in the morning to get on the boat. It was a pleasant trip home it was as delightful as the first one. My trip around Ireland is probably the best holiday maybe even better than Tenerife because of its history and so much myths and legends that it holds. I have mentioned few places of interest which were totally amazing, I recommend Ireland to all.
And so this concludes my holiday around Ireland I hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I have writing it, thank you for reading.
Advantages: Magnificent Links Golf Courses Disadvantages: Bring your waterproofs
BALLYBUNION GOLF CLUB Ballybunion is situated by the mouth of the River Shannon in County Kerry. The course is built on a seemingly never-ending stretch of natural,tumbling duneland sweeping along the golden, sandy shore of the Atlantic Ocean. The origins of golf here can be traced back to 1891, but interest seemingly waned, and it was not until 1906 that the club was re-formed. The original inspiration came from a returned Indian army officer, Colonel ... ...expanded to a full 18 holes in 1927.
Trent Jones, one of today’s premier golf course designers, on first sight of Ballybunion, said, “This is the most natural golf course terrain I have ever encountered. It is God-given.” He was to go on to design a second course (The New) at Ballybunion, which most golfers would agree rivals its older brother. Every hole is a feature hole at Ballybunion! The closing 18th hole has a stretch of sand straddling the ...
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Ireland is stunning. It’s rural beauty is something to behold in all climates. Whether you see the Wicklow Mountains through gently sweeping, misty rain; or Roaringwater Bay living up to it’s name; travel over the awesome Macgillycuddy’s Reeks in warming sunshine; or just dabbling your toes on a vast and deserted beach, you cannot fail to appreciate it’s charm.
** The Towns**
The one thing that is most noticeable about an ... ...I didn’t begin to count them, but it was clear to see we were in the region of 3 to 1 in favour of the pubs. Most men’s idea of shopping heaven, I’m sure they’ll agree. The majority of towns are clean and well looked after, and where we stayed in Clonakilty, it was painted in Mediterranean pastel hues in contrast to the more usual crisp white. There is a wide variety of shops, serving you the familiar in amongst the unfamiliar, ...
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Advantages: Awe-inspiring monuments from the Neolithic Era Disadvantages: Guided tours are too structured and too limiting
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Among the host of images suggested by the mere mention of Ireland is that of ancient peoples worshiping amid megalithic stones. Few places are more evocative in this regard than the Brú na Bóinne, roughly translated from the Gaelic as the "Palace of the Boyne." Now, imagine yourself and your psyche transplanted in time to the Ireland of 4000 years ago. You are poling a small boat up the Boyne River, and high on ... ...dancing off the white quartz and granite façade of what is already an ancient and mysterious monument--the huge passage tomb of Newgrange. One could not approach this holy site without being moved by the power and discipline its creation required. The sight of it, gleaming from its high place above the river, must have struck awe in the hearts and minds of all who saw it. Even at the dawn of the 21st century, the monuments of the Brú na Bóinne have ...
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Advantages: The people, the scenery and the nightlife Disadvantages: Belfast and Dublin people love themselves too much
When the troubles every July spark up in the North, the pictures are beamed around the world because they can be quite spectacular. When all is quiet and prosperous and everyone just gets on with their life the TV cameras have all gone. Therefore the picture the world receives of Ireland is not quite what it is. Likewise in the movies we get the quaint Ireland of the 'Quiet Man', of 'Waking Ned' or 'Dancing At Lughnasa'. In fact it is often very ... ...contemporary Ireland. And so Hollywood distorts Ireland. But what is the real Ireland like? Is it backwards in the South and a war zone in the North? Hardly!
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Advantages: Entertainment; First-hand experience Disadvantages: Negative media portrayal
Why are the Orange Marches so controversial?
Er…Politics?…the ‘troubles’ in Northern Ireland?…Religion…Events in Northern Ireland?
Where do you think I could have put this opinion? Actually, probably in all of them but I opted for the latter.
I am an English atheist, christened as a Methodist: my friend in Northern Ireland is Protestant and just wants a quiet life: her sister is part of the Orange Women’s ... ...back “to their part of Ireland”: A firm loyalist. Now you know.
I was in Northern Ireland recently for the 12 July marches. Anyone living outside Northern Ireland knows about the Orange Marching season: stand-offs at Drumcree; Orange parades not being able to march down the Garvaghy Road; sporadic fighting in Belfast…sometimes worse than that. That is a ‘foreigner’s’ view of it. I went over and I saw for myself…
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Advantages: Friendly, Welcoming People Disadvantages: Bleak Past
...?A Great Country, just pretending to be Small!?
I?m afraid I?m not sure who said that, but it sums up my opinion of Northern Ireland perfectly. Let me explain?
I?m Northern Irish. If I?m ever asked what my nationality is, I always say Northern Irish. According to the national census I?m in the minority. Tradition here in our country is to define yourself as either British or Irish according to your religious beliefs. Personally I?m very proud of where I?m from. I don?t want to be British, nor Irish. We have enough history to rightfully establish ourselves as a separate entity to either England or Ireland. And if anyone?s going to write a review on Northern Ireland, I reckon I might just be biased enough to make it sound like the most phenomenal place on earth! So, lets go with the hard sale?
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Advantages: Beautiful scenery, lots to do Disadvantages: you won't want to go home
...Northern Ireland is ever present in the news today due to political strife and religious bigotry. But there’s another side to it. A very beautiful, tranquil, breathtaking side to it. I’ve lived here all my life and I never get tired of exploring the countryside and visiting places of interest. What I’d like to do is give you an idea of the real Northern Ireland, the NI that I live with every day and that hardly anyone gets to see. I’d like to give you an idea of what you can expect if you were to come visit us for a holiday! Be brave, we don’t shoot everyone!
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Advantages: Friendly people, beautiful scenery, great nightlife Disadvantages: pubs outside the cities close at 11. the weather obviously!!
...Its been a long arduous journey for Northern Ireland to find peace but for this past few years there has been a new optimism in the country whihc has led more people to visit and even made Irish people themselves realise that it's a holiday destination that has been long overlooked.
There is no way in one short review that I can tell you all the good things about Northern Ireland so instead I'll just give you a taste of what we have to offer.
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