Ich verbringe viel Zeit in Down und es wird nie in einem Atemzug mit Donegal, Cork oder Kerry erwähnt, aber ich finde es genauso schön. Besonders die Gegend um Mourne.
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Von CasualPepsi-enjoyer
Ich verbringe viel Zeit in Down und es wird nie in einem Atemzug mit Donegal, Cork oder Kerry erwähnt, aber ich finde es genauso schön. Besonders die Gegend um Mourne.
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Von CasualPepsi-enjoyer
31 Kommentare
Are you asking people to get Down on it?
Where is the 1st pic please
Talk it up.
I like the pics, take my Down vote..
If you talk about it too much, people will think you have Down syndrome.
I am all about Down, but the bloody beatles don’t let me Down.
It’s an amazing County that should really get a lot more tourism.
Aside from the weather though I think a lot of people get confused by the phrase „I’m heading up to Down for the weekend“. It’s like a cognito-hazard, people just wander away when they hear that.
There are parts of Co Down that rival the best spots in Wicklow, absolutely stunning.
That said there are villages completely compromised and destroyed during the summer with flegs and symbols so hostile to outsiders they make Royston Vasey in the league of gentlemen seem welcoming, coupled with the fact that tourism NI have always been reluctant to encourage and promote tourism in any sort of meaningful way outside of Belfast and the Giants Causeway.
I don’t talk about it because I love hiking in the Mourne mountains and don’t want it to get overcrowded. It’s probably my favorite place in the whole Ireland.
So whoever is reading this post, don’t go it’s not worth it, the pics are AI /s
up down
Because it’s in Northern Ireland IMO. Those counties don’t get the same amount of coverage and people in Ireland are less likely to have visited them, possibly as a hangover from the Troubles. That’s my own theory any way.
I think it’s a lovely spot to visit. I hiked Slieve Donard and it was class. There is much more than that to see though.
It’s really Up there
A vote up is a vote for Down.
Shouldn’t talk Down to people..
6 and 12 are awesome
Where is 6th and 7th photo from ?
This is the place I want to work and live forever!
Have never been. The north is not on my list. No particular reason, maybe subconsciously a small hangover from the troubles.
Edit. The wife loves Giants Causeway and is asking to go back. So may check out Down too if it’s as good as you’re saying.
All that land should be forested but we let sheep take over
Great pics.
Pop into Newry on the way home for cheap paracetamol and ice-cream in Timoneys.
Up Down
Flegs would put you off sometimes
The Mournes and Tollymore forest park approaching Slieve Donard are beautiful. The area around Strangford likewise with the Holy Wells and seals and so on.
It usually gets talked down
Down is lovely. The view over Carlingford from Kodak corner is great. Morne mountains and silent valley reservoir are awesome. Tollymore forest is one of the nicest I’ve been to. All around Strangford Lough is beauts. Scopers in Dundrum is up there for the best takeaway I’ve ever had.
New tourism campaign – scenic photo like above, tagline „Down: with this sort of thing“
Lots of jaffas around the place.
Because it’s NI and secondly because it’s the 2nd most unionist part of NI, lots of areas of Down (think the north coast, Donaghadee, Bangor. Newtownards etc) are extremely staunch and I personally find the no surrender flag shagging bs to be very cringe, so no down for me.
So if you’re from the south and want to spend a few nights somewhere, you’re more likely to saunter on over to Galway or to Kerry than some unionist majority county where you mightn’t feel the most comfortable at times.
Because most of the country is far too Fenian for the local population, it’s a nice place but it’s hard to ignore the flegs and secrarian graffiti
Simply put, NI has a weak tourism infrastructure and a lower investment… compared to the Republic, that is. Not enough variety of places to stay, eat in and the concentration of places to visit is sparse. It could also be that the GB focus on tourism development is on domestic travel. Tourism Ireland is required through the Good Friday agreement to promote NI as 1/3 of its content… and it does. The fact is that logistics in NI for tour operators etc are much more challenging than in the Republic. The Mournes might be beautiful but they are, as yet, not very profitable for the tourism sector.
I love that area. I motorcycle through those hills on the way to stock up on better value wine sometimes. Win win.