The Capital, 20th March

Today we had an extraordinary experience spending a whole day in Belfast.

Luckily, both Adrian and Michael, our tour guides, were really enthusiastic about showing us as many places of interest as they could.

During our journey to Belfast they summarized in nutshell the troublesome centuries as well as the latest decades of Northern Island so as to be able to get a better undersanding of their history.

During a short tour in the city centre we stopped at Ulster Museum to explore the botanic gardens around and some of the exhibitions inside like historic remainings and pieces of contemporary applied arts.

Queen's College

Botanic Gardens

Town Hall

Exhibitions in Ulster Museum

Then we forwarded towards the western part of the city where we were impressed by the murals and the peace messages on the wall that separates the two communities.

Murals

Peace Wall

Titanic Museum was our next stop with its fascinating interactive exhibitions from introducing the shipyard through designing, launching, showing the passangers's quarters... Meanwhile we could virtually experience the luxury of the hugest- and safest-ever-built passenger ship, which had been thought to be unsinkable.

Titanic Museum

It goes without saying how the significance of Her tragic accident has captured thousands of people's imagination all over he world.

Original picture of the bilding of the Titanic

Model of Titanic

Where do the Giants 'cross way'? - at Causeway :) 19th March

Heading for the World Heritage, follow the routes advised by the National Trust. Today we went for a Social Trip and the destination was one of the most exciting places: it is the Giant's Causeway.

Giant's view to the sea

This expressive place lies on the coast of the North Channel. It is made up of some 40,000 massive basalt columns sticking out of the sea. This place was formed by volcanic activities during the Terciary some 50-60 million years ago. Most of the coloums are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five seven, eight sides. They are just amazing!

Perfect fit of the stones

Legends say it was the giant, Finn McCool, who destroyed the bridge built from stones between Scotland and Ireland to escape from the mighty giant, Benandonner.

We all became great adventures as crossing over the Carrick-a-Redge, on the rope bridge. Now challenge day is completed. It was originally strung by local fishermen to get the best place to catch salmons migrating up the stream.

Rope bridge - and a lot of visitors

We stopped for some 20 minutes on the sandy beach of Portrush and at the haunted castle, Dunluce to take some photos. This castle is thought to be the most romantic and picturesque castle in Ireland.

Members of the 2 Sat Project

Who would (not) want to live here?