Ireland!

Why do people have accents? Is it because one day a lonnggggggggggg time ago someone started talking with an Irish accent and though it was cool so for the rest of his life he talked like that then he passed the accent on though generations until everyone just naturally talked like that. Who knows but I do know that accents are funny! But yea, I’m in Ireland now. We took a two hour ferry from Scotland to a town near Belfast. In Belfast we went to a museum about the “troubles” in Ireland.  The troubles were because of the Protestant English coming into Ireland and the Catholic Irish people did not like them at all and there was very large civil un-rest.  In that time there were many bombings all around Ireland and some in England because the Catholic Irish wanted the English to go back to England. The rest of the museum was about the geological history of Ireland and how it formed. We also took a walk in a park by the Lough Neagh which is the biggest lough (lake) in all of north and south Ireland. The next day we drove down to southern Ireland which is a different country and goes by the name The Republic of Ireland. It’s because the south do not belong to the UK (England, Scotland and Northern Ireland) they separated and later joined the EU because they didn’t like the way of the English.

Frolick time!

Castle!

That day we drove to Dublin and walked around the city and then we drove around the country looking at little Irish towns. At one of them a town called Wicklow we had  a impromptu  tour of an old search and rescue boat by one of the rescue volunteers. Now, we are on the ferry back to England because we are to fly back to Canada in 10 days or 864,000 seconds, yes I did the math.