By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea!

I was met at the train station by Jenny and her sister. They took me to Strangford, a town little south east of Belfast. It was absolutely lovely! Their house had a view of the sea and the country side was gorgeous.




The Strangford ferry

That first night I had my first authentic English chips (no fish for me and Jenny and Isobel are vegetarians- perfect!), and went in the next door neighbors castle. Yes, that's right, they have a CASTLE in their front yard. Pretty cool, no? I caught Jenny up on the last quarter of the trip and we reminisced.

The next day, we went swimming in the sea. Mind you, the last body of water I swam in was about 85 degrees F. The Irish sea was probably about 40 F. I lasted about 10 minutes.


Swimming!


That day we went sailing too. Jenny's dad Joe has sailed all over the world. I steered. It was windy and choppy but even with the waves trying to leap over the boat, it was okay cause we went FAST. Weeeeeeeeee!




The boat's name was In Sh'Allah (in Arabic, "God Willing") This was a common saying I heard a lot in Sudan and Egypt basically saying yes or I hope so.




Lots of cooking went on too. We had veggie pie, potato gratin, tomato cheese pie, grilled asparagus with ciabatta and feta cheese, strawberry cheese cake and peanut butter brownies. Soooo good too!


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