Ireland Trip

There are a lot of pictures to go through here, and nothing is more boring than looking at someone else's vacation pictures. So, to that end, here is a quick video tour of our trip. If there's anything you want to see more closely, they're all below in sections. Oh, and make sure your sound is on.

N. Ireland

From the Admirals Club at DFW to Belfast Int'l, and on to Co. Tyrone.


At the DFW Admirals Club



Stepping off the plane in Belfast


With our BMW rental

Tony, Patricia, Maura, and Mick

Ann after only one pint

Joe and Mary McCuskey with kids and grandkids

McCuskey family plot -- Joe and Noel's burial site


The church


Sign for Blackwatertown, where Penny was born

One of Penny's homes growing up

House where Tony and his 11 siblings grew up

Another of Penny's houses growing up

Clonfeacle church and cemetery where Penny's mother is buried (McAnespy's)

McAnespy grave marker

Clonfeacle cemetery map


Video of driving through Moy

Downtown Dungannon


Co. Tyrone flag

View from Tony and Patricia's dining room

An adolescent cow who just won't grow up

Jim McCuskey's table of libation at Evergreen Peat office (lucky guy)

Sun room at Evergreen Peat office

Jim's house

Jim's yard

Tony outside of Otter Lodge in Cookstown

Janet, Taylor, Patricia, and Tony at Otter Lodge

A typical roundabout

Nice town on the way to Dublin

Dublin

Our two days in Dublin. Still a lot of things didn't get to see.


Entry road to Clontarf Castle hotel in Dublin

Clontarf Castle Hotel



Ann and her knight in shining armor -- strong, silent type


Dublin's main post office

Front of Trinity College

St. Stephen's Green




Grafton Street

Cool ivy-covered building




Waterfall at the Guinness Storehouse


Overlooking Dublin from the Gravity Bar atop the storehouse

Taylor, Janet and Ann enjoying Guinness in the Gravity Bar




360 video of the Gravity Bar

Jameson Distillery


Post-whisky tour euphoria

Ireland president's house

Sunset view looking west over the River Liffey on Ha'Penny Bridge

Looking east over the River Liffey

Temple Bar


Walking tour video of Temple Bar

Greedy little busker on Grafton Street

Molly Malone -- "The tart with a cart"


Inside Trinity College




Entry to see the Book of Kells -- no pics from that tour as they're not allowed

Colorful doors


More ivy on the Bank of Ireland building


Another view of St. Stephen's Green

All the lightposts have those shamrocks

Street view in Dublin


Christ Church Cathedral


St Patrick's Cathedral










That's one old chair


Crosses still visibile on this old stone






Looking East over the River Liffey on O'Connell street

Statue of Daniel O'Connell

View of O'Connell Street

The wedding

Back in N. Ireland for the wedding in Lissan and the reception in Enniskillen.


Church of St. Michael, where Cormac and Patricia were married




The bride and her brother



Lighting the unity candle

Signing the wedding registry



Manor House Resort Hotel in Enniskillen



Liam, Janet, Taylor, Patricia, and Tony

Liam, Janet, Taylor, Patricia, and Ann

Marie McGrath, mother of the groom (Cormac)

Eilis (Cormac's sister) and her husband David

Cormac

Tony and Patricia

Nigel, Niamh, and Brant

Janet, Taylor, and Ann

Brant, Tony, and Patricia

The bride, Patricia

Aideen and her nephew

Eilis and her son

Liam and Ann

First dance

Tony and Taylor on the dance floor, ready for the random dance

Taylor finding out he randomly wound up with the bride

Ann and Peter (Aideen's son)

Tony enjoying himself

David and Liam

Cormac (in Brant's hat) and Patricia

Ann, Brant, and Janet lead a line dance


Video of the line dancing

Last days in N. Ireland

Back in Coalisland for our last night, spent partying at P.G. and Lucia's.


Scenery on the road back to Coalisland from Enniskillen


Video of typical country driving

Tony and Patricia's house

Mary's house (Tony's mother)

Tony and his daughter Ashley

Laura, P.G., and Emma

The kids





London

We spent the last two days in London, trying to see as much as possible.


Waiting for the Heathrow Express to Paddington


Paddington Station


Taxi rank at Paddington

Did someone see Postman Pat around here?

View of St. Paul's Cathedral just outside our hotel

St. Paul's Cathedral

View down Ludgate Hill

Walking toward the Millenium Bridge

St. Paul's from the Millenium Bridge

Janet and Ann on the Millenium Bridge


Robert Downey Jr. filming a scene for Sherlock Holmes



Tower of London






Tower Bridge



HMS Belfast

London Eye at night from Westminster Bridge

Parliament and the London Eye from near Wesminter Abbey



Villiers Street

View back down Villiers street to the Embankment tube stop

Ben Franklin's house

Trafalgar Square






The National Gallery at Trafalgar Square




Heading down to the tube to go to Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus




Playing Canon in D at the Piccadilly Circus tube stop

Harrods


Janet in heaven

Heading out of the Green Park tube stop

Green Park



Gate between Green Park and Buckingham Palace


Other side of gate between Green Park and Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace





Covent Garden






Parliament and the London Eye from near Westminter Abbey

Parliament

Statue of Winston Churchill

St. Margaret's Church and Westminster Abbey behind it

Westminster Abbey





Dean's Yard at Westminster Abbey


Gov't buildings across from St. James Park

St. James Park


Random Scot in a kilt at a pub at Westminster

Taylor and Ann at the pub

The London Eye

Parliament at sunset from the aquarium


Beginning our champagne flight on the London Eye

Charing Cross Station

View of The City








Cheers!

Parliament and Wesminster Abbey


The vertigo shot

Walking back from Westminster for dinner

Sand sculptures along south bank of the river Thames at night


Our last dinner in London at Fish! Diner

The Millenium Bridge and St. Paul's Cathedral on the way back from the pub