Travelog post for: Bonishka

Well its been a very wet week since I last posted about my travels ... everyday i went with my host to work hoping to get a chance to pop out at lunchtime and take some pics, but it was raining far too hard!  the one day the rain stopped was of course the day the car was away being serviced so we just took a walk into own.

we went to the bus station to see if Blue Rat had come back from Dublin yet, but there was no sign of her ...



I had a look at the Linen Museum in the centre of the town - it is the only building that survived the fire in the 1700s and now has a museum telling all about the linen industry - the fields around the town used to be full of flax growing which was then sent to the nearby mills to be turned into linen.  from there it was exported all over the world!



as we walked back to the house, we went over the River Lagan which used to power the mills.  the river flows all the way into Belfast



and then we got home!



I thought you might also like to know that something very strange happened this week as well .... HS found a frog on her doorstep!  we think this was down to all of the rain and that he had gotten lost on his way to the river!  happily he hoped away before her BF got ideas about having a pet frog!!!!