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          L o r e m i p s u m                                         Shetland
                                                                        Islands


                                                                 Orkney
                                                                 Islands
                                                  Stornoway






                                                        Greenock
                                                        (for Glasgow)

                                                              Edinburgh  Newcastle
                                                                       upon Tyne
                                           Killybegs
                                                     Belfast

                                                              Liverpool


                                                         Holyhead



                                                 Dunmore East
                                         Cobh     (for Waterford)
                                      (for Cork)







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          The wild landscape of   How about a day    From Holyhead,     Though not far from   How about exploring
           the Giant’s Causeway   exploring Glasgow?   you can explore   mainland Scotland   the most northerly
           (visited from Belfast)   From Greenock, you’ll   spectacular   you’ll feel worlds   town in Britain:
            is one of the UK’s   have time to reach   Snowdonia and the   away in the thousand-  Lerwick, capital of
             greatest natural   the city and explore   Welsh countryside. Sit   year-old Norse town   the Shetland Islands?
          wonders. But were the   its charms. You could   back and soak up the   of Kirkwall, Orkney’s   With a 5,000 year-
           world-famous basalt   explore the Kelvingrove   views as you travel   capital. You can   old history steeped in
            columns created in   Museum, Riverside   through Anglesey,   explore castles, Viking   legends and myths,
            an ancient volcanic   Transport Museum   cross the Menai Strait,   carvings and cobbled   the town is full of
           eruption? Or did they   with a vast collection   reach Caernarfon’s   wynds (narrow lanes).   character. You’ll also
           play a part in a fight   of vehicles, the Gothic   magnificent castle and   Inland from staggering   visit an ancient castle
            between Irish giant   Glasgow Cathedral,   Snowdonia National   cliffs and thriving seal   and museum before
           Finn McCool and his   or the Necropolis – a   Park. Travelling deep   colonies, you can try   the chance to meet
           Scottish rival across   Victorian cemetery   into the park, you’ll   a wee dram of local   Shetland’s most
               the water?       overlooking the city.  take the incredible   whisky and feast on   famous residents, the
                                                    Llanberis Pass that   fresh seafood.     Shetland ponies.
                                                     skirts the base of
                                                      the mountain.

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