Northern Ireland on the traces by pc. Patrick

- in the middle of March becomes the Green island still greener. To the pc. Patricks Day hardly is on the roads of the small country in the west of Europe someone, which is itself not a three-blade clover sheet, Shamrock mentioned, as to written undertakings, is dressed into green and merrily signing with the national flag in the hand around-pulled. Completely eager pc. Patrick-younger paint themselves even the fingernails and color the hair. The urigen Pubs bursts from all seams. Where otherwise the Guinness flows in rivers, now green beer is in the bar. Besides belong bread, fish and Irish Kiss, a greener Wackelpudding with Wodka, to the Hauptnahrungsmitteln during the national holiday.

On the occasion of the day of death of the protection patron in the year 461 Irish in all world think of annually to 17. March the holy Patrick, that the heidnischen Irish in 5. Century to the Christianity bekehrte. Its influence on the entire island was so large, so much worked it almost exclusively in today's Northern Ireland. Not of approximate its grave in Downpatrick is promoted not only to 17. March to a true Pilgersttte, just like Armagh, Irish Rome. In accordance with excessive quantity Patrick on the Drum Saileach Hill (shallow burr) established a church from stone. Today here the Protestant pc. Patricks Cathedral stands. These and other facts over the Schutzheiligen gathered Ulrike Katrin Peter and Karsten Thilo Raab in Northern Ireland travel guide from the west wing publishing house (meal).
The two authors present the long, moved on the basis different round trips country and people, throw a view of history of the country, on which times of the fright and the terror and - which many important actual show the most beautiful corners and regions of a country, which long more than openly secrettap for holiday-makers is, a country, in which there is to discover much and experience and which completely surely an attendance worth is.

A stranger is a friend, one is so far not yet met who, teaches the Irish vernacular. This no bare lip-service is actual. Who travels through the north the Green island, who moves by the expanded moorland landscapes, who tries on the traces of the Celts, the rich cultural inheritance of the island, who witnesses to than 9000 years of the settlement from far more, it knows to learn or simply with a pint in one the urgemtlichen Pubs relaxation searches, will fast state that this no empty words are. On the contrary, the Irish are well-known for their open-mindedness and its contact joyfulness.

Northern Ireland has however still different Pounds, with which it can usury: one wanting number at myths and legends almost never end. In addition just as alternate-rich comes as grandiose landscapes, which dipped into more than 40 different shades of green, and a climate, which are coined/shaped completely substantially by the Auslufern of the warm gulf stream. The numerous mountains, heath landscapes, lakes, rivers, lonely bays and wild-romantic coast regions are a Paradies for nature lovers. Wanderer, cyclists and riders come here likewise at their expense such as leisure captains, anglers and water sportsmen.

Ulrike Katrin Peter, Karsten Thilo Raab: Northern Ireland travel guide, west wing publishing house, meal 2006, ISBN 3-939408-00-X, ISBN 978-3-939408-00-0 (starting from 2007), 128 sides, 22 photos, 1 map, price: 12.90 euro

West wing publishing house
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www.westfluegel-verlag.de

The special attention of the publishing house program west wings of the publishing house from meals lies on travel guides and travel manuals - main off the large tourist paths.

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