One of my goals for this year was to visit at least 4 new places within Northern Ireland. I believe there is a lot for me to discover about this country and I'm looking forward to exploring!

So I can tick off one out of 4 as Sir and I had a wee trip to the very sweet seaside town of Strangford, which is found one side of the narrow inlet to Strangford Lough. It's a very quaint little town with nice old cottages and interesting shops. It also has a ferry crossing point over to Portaferry, although we didnt go on it.

Here are some photos of the area:

Hello! Hope you haven't missed me too much (thats a lie, I really hope that you have missed me terribly! lol). My computer is still being fixed but I have access to another one for the time being. Unfortunately all the posts I have lined up involve photos that are on the other computer...but because I really wanted to do another post I thought I'd share a few photos which I salvaged from my facebook account and have been playing around with.

I always like the effect of blank & white and sepia photos, and I have these settings on my camera. But whenever I am taking photos I always tell myself that I will just take the photo in colour and then later on I can have the option to play around with the effects later. Typically I always forget to and they all remain in vibrant colour.

So...I thought I'd play with a few photos which I took while I was a sailing holiday in Greece last year....