The North of Ireland has some fantastic scenery. We took a day trip across to Co. Donegal and up to Glenveagh National Park. It's very much like parts of the eastern Scottish Highlands, great open spaces, high flat-topped mountains, long deep lochs - all spaced out around the contrasting angles typical of fluvio-glacial geomorphology. A couple of hours walk into the park (for a one-year old that is) there is a large castle, with a walk up to a magnificent viewpoint. Glenveagh Castle looks ancient but turned out to have been faked by the Victorians who built it as a hunting lodge. I'm happy to report that the coffee was real though.
We have visited Donegal before and didn't see anything like the scenery we did here - I can't believe that despite the number of times we have been over there we've never see Glenveagh before. We'll definitely be going back - although next time I hope it will be with walking boots and on a more serious expedition!
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