For those of you who don't know, I spent the last 6 weeks in Northern Ireland for work. I had a great time, met loads of great new people and saw some really cool things

Here are some of the pics! I don't have a camera, but my new friends sent me them all


All these ones are of Giants Causeway, a beautiful area of the coast a couple of hours north of Belfast. The stones on the beach are all a really cool hexagonal shape for some strange geological reason. Legend has it there is a causeway that goes all the way over to Scotland, that 2 giants were fighting over. It was cold and windy the day we went, and after a hard days slog surveying!













L-R thats Bec, a very windswept me and Nial, climbing back up to relative safety...














Look at those waves!




I like this one








I like the next couple too! The lights just so purty...




Thats "the organ", if you look at the hillside you can see the way these cool hexagonal rocks are like standing stones, they look like the pipes of an organ!


Me and Nial, getting a bit chilly now!


How cool is that!






The only proper photo we took...Nial, John, me and Bec


Smash! We went to the gift shop later, and I thought I might get some postcards or something, but they were all of this calm tranquil water, blue skies and lovely little pools of sea water. I just thought, thats not what its like! This is the irish sea for crying out loud!!


Pretty good for a wee climb








This is a little old ruined house just up the road from the causeway. Taken from a speeding car! Apparently on April fools day one year the papers said that Michael Jackson had bought it and wanted to do it up and live in it! Highly improbable...


Another action shot from the car!


The marina in the nearby villiage....whose name escapes me


More to come!

Very beautiful!

AWESOME pics sweetie... thank you for sharing them with us

Beautiful


By far my favorite : http://i12.photobucket.co...CN0226.jpg


SO the stones are natural? that's really wierd.

Reminds me of the stones the nymphs were clibming in Led Zepelin's "Houses of the Holy" album cover. http://stefano.altervista...20Back.JPG

Well, we played as hard as we worked!

All these were taken on one of many "wee" nights out...at God knows what time in the morning!

John and Bec...I should point out that all these people are fully, or almost qualifed professional chartered building surveyors...ahem!


Moi! In the hotel lobby...so it must've been rather late!


No I don't know what she's doing either...


Me and my new bestest friend Alex. She's an absolute STAR






Bec and Matt


The Ever-mad Bec again...


A random sculpture we went past every day and someone had the prescence of mind to photograph


A big fish!!


Thats it for now folks

Thanks everyone! It was a brilliant 6 weeks, I only wish i had more! Hopefully someone else will email me some....

Thats my favourite too Dan! Its cool isnt it!

Imago said:

http://www.giantscauseway...eology.htm

great pics
did you get a night out in Belfast?
Its a great city for a night out.

now aren't you glad you went hon?

muirdo said:

Oh yes! We were out for one or two most nights, but there was maybe 5 nights we went for it and stayed out til about 2am. We had to get up v early though!

It was a good laugh, the craic was flowing!

Natisse said:

Yes....

susannah said:

EVERYTHING happens for a reason ...this very evidently did too

Natisse said:

I know! Thanks for putting up with me!

susannah said:

whaddaya mean "put up with" you?...you have been and continue to be a gem, sweetie

Natisse said:

Those are great, beautiful pics Susannah! But I hate to break it to you: NOT sunny! Or were you kidding?




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JohnPhillip said:

Coming from "sunny" Scotland myself, yes, there was most definitely more than a hint of sarcasm in said post

susannah said:

sorry... more than a hint of dumbness in mine.

JohnPhillip said:

susannah said:

Thanks for the comforting. Now go back to the Paris thread, I added pics!

JohnPhillip said:

I already did!