[shillelagh]

My July holidays were 2 weeks in northern ireland every year. Always without fail i would miss the last week of school and spend my birthday either travelling or in northern ireland. My mum & dad came from there and used to go 'home' and visit everybody. We used to stop at Granny's until she died and then we stopped at my aunts for a couple of years and then at a hotel. Used to spend a week visiting everybody and then the second week we'd set off and go out on day trips or drive round ireland but always end up back where we set off from for the last night. Then go for the ferry in the morning. We always went stranraer to larne on sealink. Never had seasickness and went to holland with the school when i was in the 3rd year and we sailed the north sea in the middle of a storm - me and one of the teachers were the only ones who wasnt seasick - well when you've crossed the irish sea in storms the north sea is nothing! lol Come September though we would have a week in Morecambe and we always stopped in the same flats every year without fail. Easter we went to scotland and always ended up at Loch Ness and Fort William on the Sunday.