(Mattias, Myself, and Robyn on the top of Cave Hill)This morning Mattias (Germany), Robyn (Memphis), and I headed out to Belfast Castle and Cave Hill for a morning climb/walk. What a gorgeous place to both hike and see the city from. It was pretty overcast/foggy this morning, so as you'll see from the picture below, it looks more like what we stereotype Scotland as and not Ireland. They say, on a clear day, you can see the mountains of Scotland from the top of the hill.
Then, yesterday, I spent 3 or 4 hours in the Botanic Gardens next to the university walking around and reading (just finished John Grisham's non-fiction work An Innocent Man) and it is an incredible place - it will more than likely be my retreat this year when I need to get outside. It is also home to a iron and glass greenhouse built in the 1830s and 1840s that's really pretty and makes me think of what buildings in "The White City" (the World's Fair in Chicago) might have looked like. So, the picture of the rose garden below is a taste of the Botanic Gardens.
(Top two pictures are from the rose garden in the Botanic Gardens.
The bottom two pictures are from Cave Hill this morning.)
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