Now in Northern Ireland

We loved our three-night stay in Trim. It was a good way to ease into our month as well as placing us in the heart of Ireland’s early history. 

Our B&B was fun - we met people from around the world and enjoyed brief chats over a full English. (Over the three days only one of all us opted for the dark, forbidding blood pudding that was on offer!)

So far the weather is the perfect temperature - around 16-18 degrees. Only one out of four days has been rainy. Today we had gale-force winds - the trees were bending over in places. But still warm. 

We are now in Northern Ireland. Crossing the border would have been easy to miss: one medium-sized sign on the side of the road telling us we were entering. The tricky thing was that while the speed limit signs didn’t change at all - still small round white signs with a number and a red circle around it - the speed in fact was now in miles per hour instead of kilometres - took a minute of cars rushing past us to realize.

We are staying the next three days in Bangor, just 30 minutes from Belfast on the beautiful Ards Peninsula. Our hotel room looks out over the Irish Sea.