I’ve spent the last week in Northern Ireland, and it has been AMAZING. Other than the Giant’s Causeway I really didn’t know what I wanted to see, but I’m lucky enough to have a best friend with all the right knowledge, and a welcoming family to boot. So I couldn’t have been in better hands.

Here are the things I learnt:

1. The Giant’s Causeway is totally worth it, but definitely go in a storm so that you can combine fear of being blown into the ocean with actually getting to be the only people on the Causeway.
2. Northern Ireland is excellently provisioned with public toilets.
3. If you want my money, just make a fridge magnet of your attraction (I came home with 3)
4. Potato bread is king of the breakfast potato products.
5. I can withstand gale-force winds.
6. Rope bridges are fun.
7. Safely make it across a rope bridge suspended above the tumultuous waters of the Irish Sea? Easy. Just walk along a promenade without throwing my own face at the floor? Can’t do it mate.
8. I still know all of the words to “Unsinkable Dream” from the Titanic musical I was in when I was about 12.
9. All of Northern Ireland is in fact Game of Thrones.

Credit to the lovely Mr Gordon for photos containing me (because we all know I can’t take photos of myself on account of my tiny arms)