Jerry is doing a great job of creating blog posts. I’m grateful that he volunteered to handle the blogging this year so I could focus on navigating and arrangements. I will probably still create a few posts, but am happy to leave much of it to Jerry.
I would like to share a few additional photos with you, though. here are some from Crawfordsburn, Northern Island.
We started our day with the loveliest breakfast in recent memory in the dining room of The Old Inn.
Jerry had the full Irish breakfast, complete with sautéed mushrooms and both black and white pudding (sausage). I had eggs with delicious salmon and crème fraîche.After breakfast we spent a couple of delightful hours walking through nearby Crawfordsburn Park.
We saw such beautiful sights that it was not easy to pull ourselves away to catch our cab to the airport. However we made our 2:30 flight to Edinburgh
ed a walk to see Stirling bridge, which we enjoyed very much. She also recommended a cafe nearby, from which we bought take out meals to eat on her enclosed patio. It was a lovely evening.
The highlight of today was a walk through Belfast. After a 2 hour bus ride from the Dublin airport, we began at C.S. Lewis Square. One of the librarians at the nearby Holywood Arches Library helped us get our bearings and we walked nearly two miles to see St Mark’s Church where Lewis and his brother were christened.
I was even more pleased when we walked further and found Little Lea, Lewis’ beloved childhood home.
We took a cab to The Old Inn in Crawfordsburg. This beautiful inn dates to the 1600s and part still has an authentic thatched roof. I chose it because I had read that Lewis brought his wife Joy here for their honeymoon in 1958.
We got a free upgrade of our room, so we enjoyed some nice extras and a beautiful big room.
I’m sure I have more than replaced all the calories I’ve burned with all the walking we have done by consuming a delicious plate of fish and chips in the inn’s dining room.
We started very early, taking off from Tulsa at 7 am. After a brief layover in Houston, we flew to Boston, where we ate, charged our devices walked around and otherwise killed just over 7 hours.
The wait was brightened by a group of energetic students from Northeastern University on their way to study abroad in Ireland for the next month. 
Tomorrow morning we will wake up in Dublin.
Welcome to the blog for our 2nd annual trip to the Malcolm homeland. Last year we enjoyed our trip so much that we started planning this one before we got home. If you want to see what we did on our first trip, you can visit http://malcolmsinscotland.blogspot.com/
Last year the focus of our trip was Fife and Edinburgh and we were able to visit places where Jerry’s ancestors lived. This year we want to see something of the islands and highlands. Our itinerary includes Glasgow, Stirling, Skye and Oban. We will also spend a little time in Belfast, Northern Ireland and Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
