This weekend brings crowds to the North Coast with the annual airshow. The event runs over two days, it’s based in Portrush (or the air over Portrush), though there are viewing points back along the coast towards Porstewart. The show starts and ends with the Red Arrows: I was in Portstewart this morning and managed [...]
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June 18, 2009
Donegal
Heading towards the halfway mark in the first week of holidays. Another chance for all four of us to explore Ireland’s north coast – this time a quick trip across to Donegal for lunch in the superb Ballyliffin Lodge Hotel.
Let’s hope they keep the Foyle Ferry running – 12 minutes across the water in [...]
September 7, 2008
The Red Arrows
This weekend has seen two displays by the Red Arrows along the North Coast. Spectacular!
May 29, 2008
Downhill
One of Ireland’s spectacular stretches of railway – along the coast at Downhill, having passed through the tunnel under Mussenden Temple. Pauline and I spent some time exploring the area around there yesterday. Click on the photo to go to my Flickr page where you can see some more photos.
April 28, 2008
The Antrim Coast
With Monday being my day off, Pauline and I headed out today around part of the Antrim Coast. No stops at the Giant’s Causeway this time, but we did spend a little time at Port Braddon. I’m not sure what to call it because it is too small even to be a village. There are [...]
February 12, 2008
C.S. Lewis inspiration
This is Dunluce Castle (photo by Pauline), perched by the sea, just off the road from Portrush to Bushmills. It is claimed to be the inspiration for the legendary Cair Paravel in C.S. Lews’ Narnia Chronicles.
The BBC recently featured a short piece on Lewis and various Northern Irish inspirations for Narnia. You can [...]
February 5, 2008
Belfast – art on the street
At the weekend I had an Australian friend from Geneva visiting. We took an hour or so to drive around Belfast seeing some of the sights. It was intriguing for my friend to be on the ground in a city that he had heard so much about in the past. We took in some of [...]
June 29, 2007
New photos – end of term
I’ve just uploaded a few new photos of Pauline and Claire-Lise’s end of term celebrations at the Ecole Moser. See the photos to the right of this column, or follow the link.
June 13, 2007
Photos on flickr
As well as developing this new blog, I’ve been setting up some of my photos on flickr – it’s a fascinating website where all kinds of people can post their photos. If you want to see what I have uploaded so far, you can click here.
March 12, 2007
Wasting time by watching time?
On a wall in Nyon. “Whoever spends too long looking at me is wasting his time.”
