First day in Northern Ireland. In the morning, we stayed at Newcastle, in an incredible hosting home. Breakfast was not quite yummy! 😀 . When i went downstairs, i met Alice who was going up,- some early bird, I thought! I remembers saying to Alice : « What's around your mouth ? »
- She said to me smiling « it's blueberry jam » with a big crumbs of bread through her teeth ...I had to admit she did NOT look glamorous with her fussy hair, she looked like a Cro-Magnon girl who put her pijama on... What a glutton i think. 'Go and brush your teeth or you will scare Tollymore bears off!'I told her kidding -even if I admit we never came across any bear in Tollymore.
'That's what I was gonna do' she replied with her crumbs of bread still there. I still don't know if that was a smile or a grin😛
Breakfast went incredibly well, except that everybody was ready to go and I had to swallow my coffee and my toasts really fast!
Marie wished to drive ......it was such a terrible idea We rushed to the van once we were all dressed up -we were late for the GOT visit- Marie wished to drive and asked me for the keys begging 'pleaaaaase, pleasssse'. I agree admitting to Bob that it was a terrible idea. Indeed once in the van, Marie started the car .....going backwards and bumped into the owner's dog😦.
Once we got to Tollymore, Bob and I went down stumbling, half sick. Marie and Alice came down and asked 'What's wrong?' Bob pretended to fail and said 'I need mouth-to-mouth'. Understanding his joke, I knelt and told 'OK, no problem'!
'It was a joke 😉', he rushed to his feet.
We were on the car-park and we headed to the site entrance. We are straight on time (10 a.m) for the visit of the shooting places of GOT ! As we are all fans of the big series, we were super excited and we couldn't wait for the visit to start.! We were given our tickets to enter the site and while we were coming in, we met a group of people gathered around the guide.. disguised as Stark, Lannister, Targaryen! Personally I adore the Starks, they're all extra cool! The only little thing is that they all died...But I still have some faith for Arya and Jon 😀. We got there and the guide said 'ah, here are the latecomers!' He stopped for a while and started again. 'Welcome to Westeros, dear friends, we are here in the sacred wood of Ned Stark, in the haunted forest where the white walkers appeared for the first time and where the Stark children discover their wolf cubs'. I'm so excited to follow the traces of Bran or Arya! My favorite heroes!!!!
Bob's beautiful funy face The guide turned to us and asked to take the capes hung on the close hut. They were the capes from the different houses of GOT. We rushed to them and I managed to get on hand of Stark's cape 😀
'Marie, don't you think I look like Jon Snow?'
'You put it upside down', she said laughing at me. We were all wearing different capes : Bob in Lannister, Alice in Targaryen and Marie in Grejoy. I took a small stick and I turned to Bob 'En garde Lannister!'" He jumped over me and the fight began. 'Guys, be serious, I'm trying to listen to the guide!' she said even if she looked amused by our ridiculous pause. 😛 We were indeed at the right place of the haunted forest in North wall where the creatures called White walkers appeared for the first tome in the serie.
We are also gone where the Stark children discovered their wolfs cubs😀. After the visit, we layed in the grass to have our picnic and get some rest while sunbathing. What a beautiful day it was! During the visit, Marie saw a red squirel, the rarest ones in the park. She approached slowly but he got scared and ran away. Marie was sad until the end of visit of park. That's why we bought her a squirell teddy bear and her sadness back down. We got back to the van for 55 minutes but that time, I DROVE 😉 ; and nobody vomited. We came to Strangford in the evening.
Marie saw a red squirrel