Day TWELVE: Game of Thrones!

Hi all! Day twelve post today. Today we all went back to individual work placements for the day. Dr. Tim took to the Down Recorder newspaper to meet some people to work there, and to possibly set me up to write an article for them. We met with the Editor-in-Chief and he said that he would like for me to write something about my experience here and the things that I've done. Yay! So this week I'll be working on that a lot.

Next, Michael and I had to chance to go around for the day with a man called Finnbar, who is a professor and archeologist. He's the expert on all of the old buildings and has done many excavations of a lot of them. We went to Struell Wells, where I had been once before with Jim but this time Finnbar told us a lot of things about the history of the wells. Next, we went to the Church of Saul, the first Christian church in Ireland, which I had been to as well but it was nice to go again. Then we went to Audley's Field. It was a big field with a tall castle in the middle of it. It also happened to be the place where Robb Stark had his camp during Season Two of Game of Thrones, which Michael and I were both big fans of. We even got to go inside the castle, which not many people get to do. We climbed the stairs to the top and saw an amazing view.

After that, we walked to a place called Castle Ward. Castle Ward was also where Winterfell was in Game of Thrones. It was definitely a highlight of my whole trip to see this place. They do CGI in a lot of the buildings, so there's not as many in real life. But you can definitely tell where you are. They've turned the spot into a tourist attraction, with tours, archery lessons, and a gift shop. The area around the castle was beautiful as well.

Then we were invited to Finnbar's house to meet his wife and dog and to have a cup of tea. His house is in Killough, which is a quaint little town by the sea. We had tea and sandwiches and met his dog Harvey who was very cute. After tea, we got dropped off at our house. I went to the Saint Patrick Center to catch up on my blogs and start my article. Andres came with me and we ended up going to Costa Coffee for a long time because it's the only thing in town that's open past five!
I will post pictures soon!