Tuesday morning began with vague plans to catch the train to Belfast. So Ricardo, Declan and I went to the train station, and picked up some tickets to Belfast. The tickets were much more expensive then we expected, but we bought them and vented a little bit. The train ride was beautiful, the sun was playing hide and go seek with the clouds, shining some golden rays onto the Irish landscape. The train ride goes along the shores of the Irish Sea and at one point the tracks cross in the middle of a cove, so you are completely surrounded by water with the exception of the track of course. Next comes the mountains of Northern Ireland, farms with sheep and cows. The country side was very surprising, even Declan who is a Dubliner commented on
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