Sunday, November 8, 2015

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.

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