Mushroom
Goon of the Year
A little while ago me and Tomatron decided to goto Ireland to ride their coasters!
12th August
After a late finish the previous night, and only getting about 2 hours sleep, I find myself at Stansted airport awaiting for my flight to Dublin. But first was breakfast at 4am!
Well I polished that off =D
And a nice brew
After a little bit more of a wait to be allowed to check in, I got through security and straight to the gate. As it was the first flight of the day, the plane was here, and on time! Here is the beast that is taking me to Dublin.
Not much later we were in the sky
Thats Baldock down there
Also passed over Bedford, but the batteries died as we were going over =[ But I thought this was nice
Now in dublin! On time too. And bye-bye plane!
I had to hang around in arrivals awaiting for Tom who was coming in from Manchester. Once he arrived, we went to get our hire car from Hertz. A nice red Fiat bravo. Then we were onto our first destination!
it was onto Bettystown, home of funtasia. but we found the road signs a bit american
We found Funtasia, and Tom did some awesome parking
Welcome to funtasia!
It has various arcade machines, but you can pay for them upfront with a card. And there were several rides indoors as well.
We found out that the roof section which had their coaster was not open till 1pm! Which was not for another couple of hours. Bad times =[ We decided to get some brunch from the local shop and sit on the beach.
There was this statue too
It finally got to 1pm, the top section was open! There was some strange rides.
And a bounce tower
But we came for this scary thing!
Decided no to sit at the front
Mid ride
Now we head back to the UK, specifically Northern Ireland, and some 'normal' signs
Saw this just about everywhere!
After a couple of hours of driving we get to Port Rush, and NI's only park!
As we enter we are greeted by this... The Experience!
There was a better sign of Barrys inside!
Straight through, find out the prices and we hit the first coaster of the park, Pinfari looper!
Tom is bracing for pain!
Wasn't too bad of a ride, normal pain, and fairly slow! Now for the second wacky worm. But this one is a Big Apple!
But it also comes with a frog!
it is quite a big apple!
Tom decided to do the Freak Out
Now for another photo of Big Dipper
Thats a crazy Freak Out!
There was also a Ghost Train
Scary!
The rules!
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Tom was pleasantly shocked
In Port Rush they had a sun dial
Another nice Beach!
Since we were nearby, we thought why not!
There we go! Giants Causeway!
Just very Rocky!
But amazing!
Time to leave, and a lot of flags on the houses!
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There is no actual sign for the border, but it is around here!
100km back to Dublin!
And we crossed a awesome bridge!
After getting lost in Dublin trying to find our Travelodge, this is our huge room!
Had a bit of a balcony
As we were both tired after all the driving, we just crashed out and got some sleep before longer drives the next day!
Day 2 coming soon...
12th August
After a late finish the previous night, and only getting about 2 hours sleep, I find myself at Stansted airport awaiting for my flight to Dublin. But first was breakfast at 4am!
Well I polished that off =D
And a nice brew
After a little bit more of a wait to be allowed to check in, I got through security and straight to the gate. As it was the first flight of the day, the plane was here, and on time! Here is the beast that is taking me to Dublin.
Not much later we were in the sky
Thats Baldock down there
Also passed over Bedford, but the batteries died as we were going over =[ But I thought this was nice
Now in dublin! On time too. And bye-bye plane!
I had to hang around in arrivals awaiting for Tom who was coming in from Manchester. Once he arrived, we went to get our hire car from Hertz. A nice red Fiat bravo. Then we were onto our first destination!
it was onto Bettystown, home of funtasia. but we found the road signs a bit american
We found Funtasia, and Tom did some awesome parking
Welcome to funtasia!
It has various arcade machines, but you can pay for them upfront with a card. And there were several rides indoors as well.
We found out that the roof section which had their coaster was not open till 1pm! Which was not for another couple of hours. Bad times =[ We decided to get some brunch from the local shop and sit on the beach.
There was this statue too
It finally got to 1pm, the top section was open! There was some strange rides.
And a bounce tower
But we came for this scary thing!
Decided no to sit at the front
Mid ride
Now we head back to the UK, specifically Northern Ireland, and some 'normal' signs
Saw this just about everywhere!
After a couple of hours of driving we get to Port Rush, and NI's only park!
As we enter we are greeted by this... The Experience!
There was a better sign of Barrys inside!
Straight through, find out the prices and we hit the first coaster of the park, Pinfari looper!
Tom is bracing for pain!
Wasn't too bad of a ride, normal pain, and fairly slow! Now for the second wacky worm. But this one is a Big Apple!
But it also comes with a frog!
it is quite a big apple!
Tom decided to do the Freak Out
Now for another photo of Big Dipper
Thats a crazy Freak Out!
There was also a Ghost Train
Scary!
The rules!
[/img]http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs176.snc1/6610_136760007779_728732779_3314316_7620097_n.jpg[/img]
Tom was pleasantly shocked
In Port Rush they had a sun dial
Another nice Beach!
Since we were nearby, we thought why not!
There we go! Giants Causeway!
Just very Rocky!
But amazing!
Time to leave, and a lot of flags on the houses!
[im]http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs176.snc1/6610_136760122779_728732779_3314335_7973562_n.jpg[/img]
There is no actual sign for the border, but it is around here!
100km back to Dublin!
And we crossed a awesome bridge!
After getting lost in Dublin trying to find our Travelodge, this is our huge room!
Had a bit of a balcony
As we were both tired after all the driving, we just crashed out and got some sleep before longer drives the next day!
Day 2 coming soon...
