First I would like to welcome you back to CR I understand that you've been around a little while.
I've been in Ireland back in 2001 for a little more than 3 weeks.We travelled the whole country from Dublin to Dublin clockwise.Dublin is a great city, its a museum in itself.Lots of pub and restaurants of course.Normal things to visit in a big city, you got it there and it's a very industrial place as well.
As you travel southward the scenery begins to change quite drastically because it is the countryside already as you get out of Dublin.And this is quite fun to travel along the roads and stop in little pubs and talk with the local folks and listen to music. Ireland is categorized by County.As you travel around you go through different counties.
Which to me none are less beautiful then the other,on the south side it is less mountainous then the north but it is pack with history. As you ride along there is a lot of monastary very different then the ones I saw in Scotland,in Ireland pretty much all of them have very high round towers that even the scolars are not sure what it was for, they think that the monks use them as stock rooms for their valuable in times of danger.
As you go north-west of the country there are beautiful and very dangerous cliffs that you can actually walk just beside them and look out to the sea the ones that I particularly liked were the Cliffs of Moher the view is breathtaking from upthere.
In the north around Donegal and Ulster again the view is breathtaking by the majestic green mountains but unfortunately there are all barren..no trees at all. If one has the heart of an explorer one can find dolmens.
In Northern Ireland no one can't go by and not see The Giant's causeway. This place is magical in itself and there is two theories about that special rock formation of course...one to be believed that it is a volcano formation and the real one of course is that the giant Finn McCool built it to steal his beloved from a giant Scottish adversary.Which is the one I believe you know.
In all what I'm saying to you is Ireland is fairy country and very beautiful it'll be in my memory for all my days. We've met some wonderful folks that still today we phone each other every NewYear's day.
I hope I did not bother you to much with my story and that you know a bit more about Ireland.LOA
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