County Wicklow, Ireland
From various high points in County Wicklow, you can see the sea both to the west and to the east. It's just a faint blue line from here, so you…
The Dark Hedges, near Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
I'm told that fans of Game of Thrones will recognize this scene from Northern Ireland, where much of Game of Thrones is filmed, evidently. Sorry, but I've only seen snippets…
Graffiti Artist, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Just after finishing a spray paint portrait of Margaret Thatcher, a graffiti artist sprayed a white rectangle next to Maggie to prepare his next canvas. We stopped a bit and…
Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland
When we're somewhat close, we usually go out of our way to visit Unesco World Heritage sites. In this case, we tore ourselves away from the Bushmill's Irish Whiskey Distillery…
Bloody Sunday Monument, Derry, Northern Ireland
The “Troubles” in Northern Island may be over, but they're not forgotten. In Bogside, the Catholic area of Derry, signs, murals, monuments still proliferate in the streets. Up Your Travel…
Earl’s Court, London: 1973-2013
I've visited and lived in the Earl's Court London neighborhood a lot over the past 40 years, and I keep going back. Maybe this once-Australian neighborhood has a boomerang effect….
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland
As the line of Union Jacks in the transept of Dublin's Saint Patrick's Cathedral suggests, this Saint Patrick's is not a Catholic church. It's the cathedral of the Church of…
Churchyard, Glendalough, Wicklow, Ireland
As we strolled around the Upper Lake at Glendalough National Park in County Wicklow, Ireland, signs led us to the ruins of this small Romanesque church tucked back in a…
Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, England
In the early years of the 16th Century, King Henry VIII of England decided that the various Catholic abbeys held too much wealth and power. (It is estimated that the…