Our final stop in Europe was a very short, 2-night Northern Ireland.
We have friends there that have been very involved in missions for the past 35 years, and when our friends read in one of our newsletters that our flight out of Europe was from Dublin, they offered to find housing for us to stay if we'd make the bus trip up from Dublin to their home in Belfast.
Due to a crazy development of circumstances in their life at the last minute, they realized that housing us in their home wasn't going to be ideal, but they have connections with a guesthouse along the coast outside of Belfast and they thought we might appreciate 2 days of R&R and not needing to be guests in someone's house.
Our little guesthouse flat was a bungalow off a larger home where another family was staying when we arrived. It had a backyard, overlooking a wheat field, and there was a little creek that ran along the back boarder of the yard. We were five minutes walk from the harbor of the little village, and 2 miles from a larger town with things Iike large grocery stores and photo developing shops so we could accomplish the last bit of our to-do list for Megan and Andrew before we left Europe.
Ireland is SO green! And that felt peaceful and soothing for our Pacific Northwest eyes! It was such a restful few days.
We slept one morning without setting our alarm clocks, and walked along the water front trails in the little fishing village. We joined the locals in the nearby pub for a pint and the Northern Ireland soccer match against Germany in the Euro Cup (they thought maybe we were Germans because we weren't part of the local crowd - we assured them that we were happy to cheer for Northern Ireland!). We made some interesting lentil and barley soup that we kept trying to improve the flavor of as we ate it for each meal, and we spent several hours one morning spending time reading our Bibles and seeking the Lord's leading on some questions that had come up during our time in Paris.
Our friend came and picked us up to take us to our bus back to Dublin and we had a nice coffee time with him as we caught him up on our travels and recapping some of the things we've learned over this trip so far.
It was a lovely conclusion to this travel-intensive stage in Europe, and we feel like, as we're leaving Europe, we have some clarity about at least a few things we've out before the Lord or that we've realized in hindsight as we process our experiences on this trip.
Now we're headed to the Solomon Islands, which is our last visiting-stop before we head to New Zealand for our DTS next month. We're excited to spend time with our family in the Solomons and be available to work on some projects with them and be a blessing to the Wycliffe base there.
- Dani
We have friends there that have been very involved in missions for the past 35 years, and when our friends read in one of our newsletters that our flight out of Europe was from Dublin, they offered to find housing for us to stay if we'd make the bus trip up from Dublin to their home in Belfast.
Due to a crazy development of circumstances in their life at the last minute, they realized that housing us in their home wasn't going to be ideal, but they have connections with a guesthouse along the coast outside of Belfast and they thought we might appreciate 2 days of R&R and not needing to be guests in someone's house.
Our little guesthouse flat was a bungalow off a larger home where another family was staying when we arrived. It had a backyard, overlooking a wheat field, and there was a little creek that ran along the back boarder of the yard. We were five minutes walk from the harbor of the little village, and 2 miles from a larger town with things Iike large grocery stores and photo developing shops so we could accomplish the last bit of our to-do list for Megan and Andrew before we left Europe.
Ireland is SO green! And that felt peaceful and soothing for our Pacific Northwest eyes! It was such a restful few days.
We slept one morning without setting our alarm clocks, and walked along the water front trails in the little fishing village. We joined the locals in the nearby pub for a pint and the Northern Ireland soccer match against Germany in the Euro Cup (they thought maybe we were Germans because we weren't part of the local crowd - we assured them that we were happy to cheer for Northern Ireland!). We made some interesting lentil and barley soup that we kept trying to improve the flavor of as we ate it for each meal, and we spent several hours one morning spending time reading our Bibles and seeking the Lord's leading on some questions that had come up during our time in Paris.
Our friend came and picked us up to take us to our bus back to Dublin and we had a nice coffee time with him as we caught him up on our travels and recapping some of the things we've learned over this trip so far.
It was a lovely conclusion to this travel-intensive stage in Europe, and we feel like, as we're leaving Europe, we have some clarity about at least a few things we've out before the Lord or that we've realized in hindsight as we process our experiences on this trip.
Now we're headed to the Solomon Islands, which is our last visiting-stop before we head to New Zealand for our DTS next month. We're excited to spend time with our family in the Solomons and be available to work on some projects with them and be a blessing to the Wycliffe base there.
- Dani
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