I’ll be there in Sept for a week for work and MIGHT get a day on my own to take the camera out and about. Unlikely I’ll have a rental car. Where would one go if I’ll be in the Dublin Belfast area with 24 hours?
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If you've got a full day, I'd take a look at one of the bus tours like this one.
Just got word today that my boss’s boss is going to take us on a trip to the North Shore and stop at the Causeway. Great suggestions though, thanks!
If you're a Game of Thrones fan, the touring exhibition is open until 8th September - https://www.gameofthronesexhibition.co.uk/ (my sister and her husband were in Belfast last weekend to see it and the Giant's Causeway).
Love, love, love, love Northern Ireland. The "big" attractions have recently been completely overrun with Game of Thrones tourists (they even drive their tour buses into places with great big "No Tour Buses" signs). Hopefully that will die down soon (they've completely taken over Seville and Croatia as well). I was first at the Giant's Causeway in 2000, and was last there in September 2018. It's almost out of control at the moment.
Most Giant's Causeway tours will take you to Dunluce Castle, which is definitely one of the highlights of the country. It's absolutely spectacular. I also love the area around Enniskillen, but nobody on a short trip to Belfast is going to make it there.
Belfast has the incredible Titanic museum, which has won a bunch of international awards, and the SS Nomadic beside it, which is the last White Star Line ship in existence. Also, the city's old pubs are fantastic.
Several of my friends are partial to Redbreast.I know very little about single malts, but there are aged versions of Jameson's available only in Ireland.