Monday 7 January 2008

Flashbacks: Newcastle

Next flashback. After the Halloween day, the next remarkable activity was our trip to Newcastle, a really small and surrounded by nature village located in the county Down, Northern Ireland. And no, you're probably wrong. The football team is from the other Newcastle in Britain.


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Just by chance, that day almost all the people had different plans or they weren't interested and, finally, only Ilkka and me actually visited the place.

One of the first thing we saw was this impressive building. Non surprisely, it is a luxury hotel.
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After that we looked for the tourist information office. During the walk we realised how small is Newcastle. In five minutes, we traversed most of it! By the way we realised that there are a lot of slot machine places. When I asked about it to the girl at the tourist office she gave us an inexpected explanation: Newcastle is like a beach resort in NI, but you can't swim most of the time even in the summer, and the people play slot machines.

There is a modern monument on the beach. Nothing special, but I took the most artistic photo in there. The title is "Ilkka and the end of the tunnel".
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In my opinion, the best of Newcastle is the environment, not the beach. Ilkka and me agreed that Spain is much better for beach and sun tourism. We weren't equipped to make a really long walk in the mount, so we walked a small route in the North of the village.

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Ilkka and me supporting the nature

A final detail about Newcastle: the graveyard. They are really beautiful celtic crosses as you can see.
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5 comments:

Onio said...

Ireland for beach and sun tourism?! Maybe in a couple of decades, as Russia or Finland (thanks to the global warming even if Laintalay doesn't think so, :P).

Anonymous said...

It'll be funny and a little strange to go to the beach to Siberia at Summer, but I think too, like onio, that the global warming will make it posible sooner than we think.

Bye and good luck with your exams Sebas...

Sebastián Ortega said...

Onio, it's not only Laintalay. There are much more people that don't think that the global warming is working as the media says.

Lastly, I was reading interesting things about it. Maybe I should write a post on global warming.

Onio said...

I know, I know... Of course it isn't as the media, in its usual catastrophic fashion, says but it is worth to keep an eye on that.

Tonecas said...

I think you planned to go to Newcastle (England), but finally you chose a cheaper way with the same name.