点评:My sister and I set out to explore our Irish roots. After two fabulous SUNNY days in Dublin, where the people were as warm as the weather, we came to Belfast and began our Northern Ireland tour with Flip Robinson, the principal of Giant Tours Ireland.
Day one was Belfast with a local guide very familiar with the neighborhoods and years of the Troubles, all still too apparent in the memorials and graveyards. That night we attended a play called Project Children about kids who went to the US for six weeks in the summer to get away from the mean and dangerous streets at home. The play was fabulous, and incredibly the cab drivers who took us to and from the theatre had BOTH been part of the program as kids!
The next day was glorious, a perfect setting for the gorgeous Antrim Coast, where Flip regaled us with Game of Thrones lore and inside tales. We also saw the Giants Causeway and had lunch in Ballycastle with a longtime friend.
Our final tour was of Derry. Our guide had lost his father in the Troubles and was quite knowledgeable about Derry history. The piece de resistance of the tour and the week was finding the church where our grandfather, born in Donegal in 1877, had been baptized!
Flip was easy and fun to be with. Everything was timely and comfortable. He had come highly recommended by our Ballycastle friends and others, and he easily exceeded our expectations!
翻译:我和姐姐开始探索我们的爱尔兰血统。在都柏林度过了两个阳光明媚的美好日子,那里的人们和天气一样热情,之后我们来到贝尔法斯特,开始了我们的北爱尔兰之旅,由 Giant Tours Ireland 的负责人 Flip Robinson 带领。
第一天在贝尔法斯特,当地导游非常熟悉当地的社区和动乱时期,纪念碑和墓地中仍能清晰地看到这一切。那天晚上,我们观看了一场名为“儿童计划”的戏剧,讲述的是孩子们在夏天去美国待了六个星期,以远离家乡危险的街道的故事。戏剧非常精彩,令人难以置信的是,接送我们往返剧院的出租车司机小时候都参加过这个项目!
第二天天气非常好,非常适合欣赏美丽的安特里姆海岸,Flip 为我们讲述了《权力的游戏》的传说和内幕故事。我们还参观了巨人堤道,并与一位老朋友在巴利卡斯尔共进午餐。
我们的最后一站是德里。我们的导游在动乱时期失去了父亲,对德里的历史了如指掌。这次旅行和一周中最精彩的部分是找到我们的祖父受洗的教堂,我们祖父于 1877 年出生在多尼戈尔!
Flip 很随和,很有趣。一切都很及时,很舒适。他是巴利卡斯尔的朋友和其他人极力推荐的,他轻松超出了我们的预期!