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Northern Ireland {Weekend Getaway}

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August has been a busy!  Last weekend especially.  We took a weekend trip to Northern Ireland, then came home and moved on Sunday.  More on the move later....let's talk Northern Ireland. Brian @ Giant's Causeway I was sucked into buying a Daily Deal for a 2 night stay in a Castle.  It sounded romantic, it looked grand in the photos, and I even priced checked online and it seemed like a great deal.  The back side of the castle did not disappoint, it was beautiful countryside as far as you could see.  The front side is what they didn't talk about.  I'll get to that in a bit.  In the end, it would have been great for a 1 night stay, but the second night was a bit too long.   The drive was 3 hours from Dublin.  About an hour into the drive, the speed on the highway suddenly changed from 120 to 60, and we just couldn't figure it out, there was no reason at all for us to slow down that much on the highway?!?  We kept up with th...