http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , Northern Ireland en-us Sat, 12 Dec 09 11:06:21 +0000 Sat, 12 Dec 09 11:06:21 +0000 An interesting pass time..... dig a hole in the ground in the peat then fill it with water and swim it... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/blog-455846.html What an incredible day I'm soooo glad that we decided to do BOTH tours one each in Scotland and Ireland. it was a long day but very worthwhile. We left about 530 am and had to take a charter bus to Belfast then transfer to our paddywagon tour guide. It was a long ride to our first destination which was the rope bridge in the Causeway area. Warren was the brave one while I snapped pics. Bye the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-450788.html Making use of the double booked Isle Of Man we scored free BMI flights on this trip and flew over on the 21st.Flight in was amusing I would say and horrible is probably Andrew's memory of it. Was pretty bad weather and as we came in the land the plane was going from side to side Andrew was already going green and sweaty so the pilot's sudden and unannounced decision to pull up and head straig http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-450490.html The beginning of the week has been good so far. Teaching class Monday morning was very good I let the kids play 5on5 for the first time and they actually did a great job. The week before I tried to teach them the concept of screening and they had a tough time tackling the idea of it. So i finally got the chance to give homework to the students and it felt great guess what the homework was I http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-446766.html Our second game of the season got off to a rough start. As a team we came out a little sluggish and DCU took advantage of that and pulled out to a quick lead. I got in early foul trouble again and got two fouls in the first quarter they wont cut me any slack over here guess I am to physical ha..We cut the lead to about 15 points but never got closer than that. It was a frustrating defeat becau http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-446138.html The entire group of 10 went on a private tour to Giantrsquos Causeway. Along the way we saw some beautiful countryside and lots of sheep. We went through several small villages along the way. One village named Cushendall is the heart of an annual glens festival 1st week in August. They also have ldquohurlingrdquo games here quite frequently. Another village known as Lockarema the vanis http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-445320.html I was just thinking about my recents blogs and I havent given you all a typical week for me over here in Belfast. Obviously I am studying here and getting my master's in Sports Management as well as teaching first year students. I start off my monday's teaching first year students freshman basketball. It is an awesome class because none of the kids have ever played basketball before so I am gett http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-444916.html Wow...what a weekend I had in Dublin...I went to Dublin with another American who is studying here as well and playing volleyball. We headed down Saturday afternoon and took the bus. Crossing the border we got stopped by the immigration patrol..pretty scary. I didnt know I should bring my passport and they asked for everyone to take them out. Thank goodness they didnt ask for mine We were fortun http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-444324.html ESTOY CANSADO NO ME ENROLLO MS...DA 1 BARCELONABELFASTARMAGHHaca ya demasiados meses que mis das se consuman de forma bastante mecnica a base de trabajar y dormir y trabajar y dormir... Empezaba a sentir la necesidad de una pequea recarga de pilas y un viajecito siempre me ha enchufado bastante.Hace dos das no tena muy claro si salir de Barcelona a tomar viento o quedarme en la ur http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Armagh/blog-443617.html We went up to Moure Mountains at 1st of October.We had stopped at track roud junction grid ref. 357223 than we follow roud east for 75 m than we ternd northnorthwest direction. Next point of this trip was wall track junction grid ref. 353233. Than we went northwest direction from wall junction to stile at the forest end on right grid ref. 353235. Whan we went northeast follow the pat http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Antrim/blog-443043.html D's Grandfather was born here. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-442384.html Felt like a home coming of sorts. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/County-Down/Mourne-Mountains/blog-442376.html Hello Everyone Hope everyone is doing well back at home....this weekend should be a lot of fun. Tonight we have practice from 5 to 630 should be an easy one because of the game on Sunday. After practice the team is heading into Belfast to go watch the Belfast Giants play the Newcastle Eagles. The Belfast Giants are the ice hockey team here and I hear are pretty good. Don't know if they are as g http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-441454.html Hello everyone Had a very good weekend. Thursday night was a lot of fun. We celebrated 250 years of Guinness which was a blast. Pretty cool I got to be in Ireland for that day. We had media night before we went out. My coach Ian O'Boyle Gareth and I all had a press conference which went well. You can see the press conference on you tube. If you type in Ulster Elks Media night it should come up. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Belfast/blog-440396.html On the second week of our vists up the Mourn Mountains we parked the mini bus in a carpark just above FoFanny Dam. We were told to find a stile going over the Mourne wall at the base of OTT mountain and Slevie Loughshannagh and we were not given point as our group instructors only told us were to go leaving us to find the bearings and set our compasses independitly. i learnt to work wth maps and http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/County-Down/Mourne-Mountains/blog-439583.html We traveled to the Mourne Mountains again where we started at the car park 150m North of Fofanny Dam. We began our trek at the car park and began to summit Ott Mountain then taking the Path Junction leading to the style between Slieve Loughshannagh and Ott Moutain. After reaching the style we began to discuss what would be the most sensible coarse of action to take for reaching the summit of Doa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Lisburn/blog-439578.html At this week we went to a Moure mointains. We have been stop at the Fofanny Dan Car Park and than we went over Ott Mountain with Slieve Lough Shannach at the left. Than we went to Lough Shannach and we rest there at copple of minutes. At the way back we went over Carn Mountain.At the time of trip I learnt how to read grid references from map because ours main aim was find good direction and way id http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Antrim/blog-439577.html Our first week up the Mourne Mountains we were learing general map skills like compassbearings map reading and also how to take a bearing for any given place these skills were new to me so therefore I was not familler with the exercises we were doing. Whilst up the Mourn Mountains I have learnt how read a compass and mark it up to the place that we are walking to. My general map skills have impr http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/County-Down/Mourne-Mountains/blog-439575.html This was our second time in the Mournes as a group. This time we started in 'Fofanny Dam' car park. And followed a path which took us over 'OTT Mountain'. We crossed a stile which sat between Carn Mountain and Slieve Loughshannagh. We then hiked to the top of Doan and went for a swim in Lough Shannagh. The previous week in class we spent time improving our grid referencing and we practiced this http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/Lisburn/blog-439574.html I walked up the trassey track in the Mourne Montains towards Hare's Gap. At the trassey car park we worked out our pace to measure distance. I walked the track until the bottom of Hare's Gap.The skills i learned were how to pace and work out distance. I also learned how to use a compass and take a bearing from the map. I also learned how to get from one point to another on a map. These were all n http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/County-Down/Mourne-Mountains/blog-439572.html