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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

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.

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