It is very odd waking up in your campervan parked on the street outside a mates house. Still considering the amount of alcohol that was consumed, mostly by Li, it was a cunning idea all the same

Headache in place, we shared breakfast with Nicola, said our goodbyes and then headed north, Belfast bound. The Actons has told us of a Titanic Experience that was worth a visit, so as it was on route it seemed a shame not to stop off

Hours and hours of driving! Eventually we arrived, managed to avoid all the low barriers to get in the car park by finding what appeared to be a piece of wasteland to park on. The experience itself was quite good, loads of history about how the Titanic was built and kitted out, plus a ride to take you around the shipyard as it would have been back then. We also boarded the only remaining White Star Line ship in a dry dock next door. Souvenirs were purchased including a t-shirt for William and a hoodie for Rebecca, and we left after 2-3 hours. Worth the effort if you’re in Belfast but I wouldn’t go out of the way to see it

Continuing our journey up into Northern Ireland we were greeted with more flags on every street, house and lamppost than you can ever imagine. Our site for the next 2 days ended up being the best of the whole trip, Ballyness, in Bushmills. Lovely site with the best play area that you can hope for. Rebecca and William immediately made friends and we’re out until 9:30 playing. Lovely stuff!

After a late night catching up with Simon and kids were up late too, we packed up to head off to Powerscourt.

Met up with Nicola and Danny at Powerscourt and we had a lovely walk around the gardens and the kids played nicely together. Unfortunately whilst taking a lovely photo by a tree of the kids, they disturbed a wasp nest on the ground and poor Rebecca got stung twice. Thankfully she didn’t have an allergic reaction.

Headed on to the new distillery opened at Powerscourt and Tony managed a couple of minute tastings and came out with a bottle of his first Irish Whisky of the tour.

Headed back to the Acton’s household for BBQ dinner albeit Simon was cooking in the rain, had a lovely meal and a very late night drinking. We decided to camp out in the camper van outside their house which was weird.

We woke up in the Starbucks car park.daddy went to get food because I was very very hungry. Then I got out of my pyjamas

We had to get on the move, to catch the ferry. On the ferry we got breakfast it was very yummy. William and I went to the cinema to watch a movie, which was “how to train your dragon the hidden world”, we thought it was good then after we got off the ferry.

Once we got out of the ferry we were in DUBLIN, now we were in Ireland!

We drove to the camp site, there was a play area at the site, then we went into town. William and I took our scooters into town. Uncle Simon and his family showed up after we got back. Charlotte and Uncle Simon stayed in their tent next to us.

Rebecca 😀

We went to get the camper van, I thought it was really boring and then daddy struggled to drive it home. I was so excited to see what it looked like on the inside and outside although I didn’t like the big sign on the side of the camper van which said camper rent.

We drove off, I felt as if I was going to live in an advert for two weeks! We went on and on and on until we got to Wales but it still went on and on. Daddy said we were going to stay in a special place which other people may call a Starbucks car park. I was very tired by then.

Rebecca 😀