Our Road Trip to Ireland

After spending around 4.5 hours in the airplane, we landed at Cork's airport. Then, we left our luggage at the hotel, and we went to the "Lil' Joe's Pub": a big but cosy pub, where we tasted a Guinness... Excellent !

During our trip, we went to Dublin which is Ireland's capital. We first went to Trinity College and then at lunchtime we ate at McDonald's. After that, we took the bus to go to St Stephen's green. We went back to eat at the Fire Restaurant and Lounge.

In the evening, we went back to our hotel : we stayed at Westin Dublin and, as usual, Florian and Lehyan had forgotten their electronic key inside the room, we were locked outside without our cell phones ! Plus, the reception was closed at that time of day. We had to wait 5 hours in front of our room! Thanks guys! We could only glance at mythical Temple Bar as it was closed by the time we got there...!😖

We visited Winterfell, the Northern capital of Games of Thrones . It was very funny , the biggest fans could wear the actors' costumes to look like Sansa Stark and her brother Rob Stark .😄 Then, we were able to perform achery just like in Season 1 where Jon Snow tells his little brother Brandon Stark how to do it. Chloé fired all her arrows near the target. To finish, we grabbed a bite in the large tent inside Castle Ward. The teachers were the luckiest since they could taste the local beer which is quite high in alcohol .

We adored the guide's humour who threatened Adam and Alan to cut their heads off and put them onto a post just like in the series because they kept making fun of his Irish accent.

During our fifth day in Ireland, we walked through the Tollymore Forest Park. The bluebells floor welcomed us, it stood in front of us like a beautiful sea that we explored, searching for a rare gray squirrel. The animal is nearly extinct but it inhabits the forest with its cousin, the red squirrel.

A sound surprised us, the trees' leaves ruffled. Suddenly, a little blue colored bird flew out of the green mess of trees.We tried as much as we could to take pictures of the quick animal as it fled our amazed gazes. We learned later that the Kingfisher was the bird's name.

As we sank even more into the Tollymore Forest, the guide made us stop in front of a bridge. We were told that the old construction has been used for the filming of the series "Games of Thrones".

Among the pines and oak trees stuck out a funnier plant. Indeed, its specificity is the unique pattern of the leaves that draws a spiral around each branch. A bright green colors the forest thanks to the Monkey Puzzle.

We went to Ballintoy Harbour to admire one of Game of Thrones settings. When we arrived some of us said "woooow" the landscape was very beautiful and some of us recognized Lordsport Pike Islands. We took some pictures and then we played some scenes from the series. A horse ran next to us as if we were in the episode. Our guide of the day Brian told us that he saw the actor Alfie Allen and he showed us a selfie. After some pictures of the group with the landscape, some guys lost a bet so they may swim into the sea. The water was really cold, but they swam anyway into Ballintoy seascape. The rest of us walked following the rhythm of the opening of Game of Thrones and Star Wars of course.

When we got there we were very impressed by how high the rocks were. Brian offered us to climb on these cliffs, it was just crazy. When we were at the top the view was breathtaking, but the most impressive was coming: Brian told us that the easiest way down was to jump! After that it was time to say goodbye to Brian. A long travel in bus was waiting for us...

After visiting the big city of Galway, we had decided to admire the beautiful Cliffs of Moher which served as decors for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. We were told that it was very impressive with the height of the cliffs and the immensity of the place but we didn't expect it to be so gigantic. A guide told us that the cliffs were 214 meters high and 8 km long. It was amazing !!! 😲

While we were walking, two students made a bad joke and scared the rest of the group by pretending to push our teacher into the void, from the cliffs. It was hilarious !!! 😆

Created by the 1ère S2 From Joseph Saverne High School

Arranged and Composed by LEMAITRE Jules, DEFRETIN Loick and VIGEON Corentin

Comments by SAINT-DENIS Agathe

Inspired from : - Saving Private Ryan, "The Hymn To The Fallen" by John Williams

- Braveheart, "Main Theme" by James Horner

- Star Wars : Episode II - Attack of the Clones, "Across the Stars" by John Williams

- Games of Thrones, "Games of Thrones Main Title Theme" by Rain Djawadi

- Star Wars : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, "A New Hope and End Credits" by John Williams

Instruments and sounds from the Logic Pro X Factory Library

Mixed by LEMAITRE Jules and DEFRETIN Loick

Mastered by LEMAITRE Jules