In April of 1999, I was fortunate enough to be able to travel to England and Ireland with my husband, who was spending a lot of time there on a big computer project for work. The company he works for has a facility in England and one in Northern Ireland. Now I realize that Northern Ireland is not really Ireland proper, as it's actually part of Great Britain. But, if you have a rental car, the Republic of Ireland is within driving distance and one can spend the day there, which is what we did.
It really was a great adventure, this trip. I'm so thankful I had the chance to go. It was mostly a working trip for my husband, but at least he was able to be free on the weekends, and that's when we did most of our sightseeing.
Our trip was scheduled for ten days, and two of those were spent in the air between London and Raleigh, North Carolina. One day was spent traveling to Belfast, Northern Ireland. So that left us with five days in England and two full days in Ireland.
I don't have a lot of pictures of Ireland, but I'll share what I have. We didn't own a digital camera in 1999, and these pictures were made on my beloved Canon Sureshot, 35mm, automatic focus. My parents gave it to Mr. Forest Manor and I for our first Christmas. It was so easy to use, and it actually took pretty good pictures.
I spent about two hours today scanning all these pictures into Picasa and editing some of them. To be almost 13 years old, they've held up pretty well.
