Quick Blogs 1 : The Mourne Mountains

Ok.... has been a while since the last blog entry and we have a small stockpile of photos to post of explorations and visitors... as the weather is lovely at moment (most of the time), it is also the time to explore and travel again and we have been busy doing just that recently..
Also we are off tomorrow to go camping with our brilliant and enormous new tent (pictured in next post) to England for 2 weeks... So the next few posts are quick catchups on what we have been up to.

1st Up:

The Mourne Mountains and Coast of Co. Down , Northern Ireland
(see map on RHS blog to see where this is)
A few weekends ago, this was our first journey across the border into Northern Ireland..
It was beautiful and very close to home so we will be doing some more exploring there this year.

We drove through Carlingford which is a cute little village in the Republic of Ireland and sits at the edge of Carlingford Lough... then we crossed the other side of the lough and there we were in Northern Ireland, in Co. Down, "Where the mountains O'Mourne sweep down to the sea" (Song by William Percy French, 1854–1920). And absolutely beautiful it is too.

A brief weekend only but we climbed a small mounain (don't know which) in the Mourne's, drove around and checked out the elusive but grand Legannany Dolmen.