Coleraine

Football…

The World Cup is on and I confess I have little interest in soccer… I just about keep up with the scores, and wish luck to teams I feel I have a connection to, like us and the Netherlands, but really it is not my sort of thing at all. However, in the spirit of […]

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Bark bark 2

Every time we visit Northern Ireland we find a new and interesting place to explore; this time it was Mountsandel, now a lovely forest walk but once the site of the earliest known human activity in Ireland, a camp made nearly 10,000 (yes ten thousand) years ago. There was a wonderful variety of trees, elms, […]

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This time tomorrow…

My children are getting ready to go off to university, my son for his second year at Salford University, my daughter for her first year in… Ulster! We’ll be flying with her across the Irish Sea to Belfast tomorrow, then staying for a few days at our beloved Portballintrae before she starts at the Coleraine […]

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