My big, wide world

I visited Simon in Northern Ireland. He picked me up in Portadown to show me "his" country. Didn't have passport control, strange, I really had expected that, at least at this border...
But nevertheless, I got known to his mother, father and one sister on friday. They are so lovely! We drove to the northern coast, saw Giants Causeway, forgot to take a picture of Castle Dunlace, went to see the wooden bridge. A friend of him joined us, nice guy, too.
In the evening we went to a pub with his cousin and the girlfriend. She's from Belfast, so although I didn't have problems anymore to understand Simon, the girl's accent was horrible...
On saturday we went to see the Americans Folk Park, lovely! We saw how Irish people used to live ages ago, went on the boat to America and finally arrived there to see how poeple used to live over there. Nice circumstance was that at this day, they showed wedding, one irish wedding and one american weddings and we could try a lot of different cakes which were given to the wedding guests...
In the evening I had the privilege to take part in a family meeting at his aunt's house with a lot of childen, sisters, oncles, aunts,... Such a lovely familiy!
On monday we did a tour to "Castle Coole" after having a typical irish breakfast and came then back home to eat dinner. His mum cooked chicken and apple pie especially for me :-) Simon then drove me back to Dublin....