Hey there all,

So, on the weekend of June 29 i flew off to Northern Ireland to meet Salina and Ryan for a minibreak. So good to see friendly faces from home!!!! It has been too long. Following work on the friday i got to the Birmingham airport and took off for Belfast! Walking out of the terminal i saw Salinas very bright smile and lots of hugs and a few tears were to be had. So good! Anyway so off we went to explore Belfast. Stayed at a hostel, that was not to bad - really good breakfasts. Then off to expore the giants causeway, cross a rope bridge in Balleycaslte, and oddly enough drive past Ryans work in the middle of nowhere! Stayed in Londonderry/ Derry the following night - the Walled city. Cool town. Salina and Ryan dropped me off at the airport on Sunday afternoond and then i was off to Birmingham for work on Monday, and Salina and Ryan were going into the Republic of Ireland. Wish i was going with them! Only two weeks left of school and then i am off on holiday! Here are a few picts from the weekend - the Giants causeway is just stunning and hard to comprehend.

Ballecastle, Northern Ireland coast:

Belfast and their Murals - they are all over the place!!!! A little different than those murals found in Athens don't you think!!!! They for sure reflect their Pro-British heritage, and the violence that they experienced in the years past. Met a man at a pub and got talking about "the troubles" - he remember them and would only have been in his 50's. Impossible to really comprehend because he said that it was really quite scary and war torn.

Giants Causeway area:

There are 40,000 of these interesting rock formations - shape is pentagonal