Game of Thrones Quiz and Tour to Northern Ireland

I clicked on a Game of Thrones quiz and scored only 2 out of 6, but I have never watched the TV series. However, the locations looked so lovely that I am now interested in both watching the series and visiting Northern Ireland.

My list of must see places in Northern Ireland and Eire include:

1 The Titanic Belfast exhibition
2 Giant's Causeway
3 The Blarney Stone - might not kiss it, but photograph others and learn about it.
4 Belfast
5 Dublin (again)
6 Jewish tour including Jewish museum (I was sent a leaflet years ago)
7 Literary tour (James Joyce, Yeats and more): Grave of Yeats. Mountains of Mourne (inspired CS Lewis's children's fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia which includes the book The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.).
8 Scenic places from the quiz including: White Peak Bay in Northern Antrim, a beach with elephant rock, Ireland's smallest church and fossils.

Yeats was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1923. Interesting and opposite views of whether it is wonderful or dull to visit his grave, inscribed with a poem.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g211933-d215212-Reviews-Yeats_s_Grave-Drumcliff_County_Sligo_Western_Ireland.html

Game Of Thrones tour £35 per person from Belfast including Giant's Causeway.
http://www.ireland.com/en-gb/offer/

Longer Game of Thrones tours four days cost more than £1000.
http://www.ireland.com/en-gb/articles/regions/game-of-thrones/game-of-thrones-quiz/?

Numerous tours of different kinds,  including escorted and DIY, with bikes or boats, to waterfalls and caves and cliffs and castles. Other tours and events feautre Irish music or food.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, researcher and speaker.

What to do and drink in Northern Ireland and Eire: Guinness chocolates

Should you visit the Titanic exhibition first, or take the whiskey tour first?

Bush mills Distillery runs whiskey tours.
I learned about the distillery tours at World Travel Market London where I tried a dram.

Pictures of the display for Bushmills Irish Whiskey at World Travel Market 2015 at ExCel. Photos by Angela Lansbury

Spelling. As you can see from the Bushmills drinks mats, whiskey in Ireland has an e before the y.
American brands are called whisky without the e. In Scotland the drink is known as Scotch.As you can see from this bottle, Glenfiddich Scotch whisky, spelling ends SKY.

American whiskey with an E as in AmErica. Just check the bottles in your supermarket to see.

For more discussion on this subject:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky

Guinness, incidentally, has a double NN and a double SS. If you are not into drinking Guinness, you may be into eating Guinness chocolates., shaped like a Guinness glass.

EIRE
While in Ireland, across the border in Dublin you might also like The Story of the Irish. (Not to be confused with the book, The Irish Story. Includes all the history as well as the potato famine and audio visuals.)

https://storyoftheirish.ie/local-attractions
https://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/first-floor
Guinness Storehouse, St James's Gate, Dublin 8, Ireland.

NORTHERN IRELAND
http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Old-Bushmills-Distillery-Bushmills-P1635
Old Bushmills Distillery, Co Antrim, N Ireland.
http://www.titanicbelfast.com
Giants Causeway.

Ireland has a lot more, music and dancing, song, poets and literature, castles and the Blarney stone, Catholics and Protestants as well as Jewish Ireland.

WHISKIES OF THE WORLD
If you are tempted to see more distilleries before or after:
USA
http://blog.forbestravelguide.com/tour-americas-top-10-whiskey-distilleries#cmpid=forbes_DR
IRELAND
http://www.irelandwhiskeytrail.com/home.php
SCOTLAND
http://www.visitscotland.com/about/food-drink/whisky/distillery-guides/?gclid=CjwKEAiAgvyxBRDmuviAj67g-XQSJABTLMcHXukMBX8h-hTMnvyBCzj5M6QSN2BuXl2nVexNt2K4_BoCBE_w_wcB

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker.

Titanic Travel Wishlist - Titanic Museum

The Titanic museum over in Belfast, N Ireland is another on my wish list. Belfast was the birthplace of the building of the Titanic. The museum just won the UK Customer Experience award. I've watched three videos of the Titanic. I have been to the exhibition at Greenwich and bypassed the exhibition in Las Vegas.

I read the classic book, Night to Remember.

I read on the internet about famous characters while researching an article I wrote, after visiting the museum in Northern England, the birthplace of the founder of the White Star line.

You can also see the Titanic on YouTube.

Titanic Museum Tickets - Titanic Belfast Visitor Experience‎

www.history.com/topics/titanic/videos

Pictures from Wikipedia. See Wikipedia for credits.

Here's passenger Astor.

The award-winning Titanic Belfast museum.

The famous staircase - copied in sister ship. Now in a hotel in England.

Artist of the 1912 era shows the Titanic sinking and lifeboats rowing away.

The four funnel ship in its glory.

The route it took from Europe towards the continent of North America - where the lucky survivors landed.

The building of the ship. Which brings up back to Belfast.

http://titanicbelfast.com/The-Experience/Shopping.aspx

Several galleries, extra £3 for an audio guide, and a banqueting floor at the top so you can even hold a wedding reception here.

What does a visit cost? £15.50 for adults. Cheaper for pensioners Monday to Friday, £11.

Unlucky £13 for pensioners at weekends. Concessions £11 for students and the unemployed. Family ticket for two adults and two children £39. Children under 5 go free.

Angela Lansbury is a travel writer, author and speaker. Her book Jewish Travel Tales features famous characters from history and modern monuments to them and their era, for example, the co-owner of the New York department store, and the millionaire passenger on the Titanic, Guggenheim (whose descendant funded the Guggenheim Museum for New Yorkers to enjoy. Guggenheim dressed in his dinner jacket to die like a gentleman, alongside his valet, also suitably dressed.
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