"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." RLS
The Boer War Memorial, located just outside the entrance to the Enniskillen Castle complex, commemorates those who lost their lives, from the two Enniskillen raised regiments of the British Army – the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards, in the 1899-1902 Boer War. Continue reading “Boer War Memorial”
The castle complex consists of a number of buildings including the Keep (main castle), the Watergate, a magazine, various barracks buildings and a reception area. The reception area, which houses the Fermanagh County Museum, opened in 1992-3. Continue reading “Enniskillen Castle Complex”
This is more a rambling reminisce than a review. The review component, such as it is, is in the Review section below.
I have been inside the Fermanagh Lakeland Forum twice in my life – two days running back in the early 1980s but I remember the visits (especially the first one) as if they were yesterday. Continue reading “Fermanagh Lakeland Forum”
Even though I was born in and brought up in County Fermanagh I make a point of dropping into the Fermanagh Visitors Information Centre in Enniskillen each time I return. Each time I do so I ask the same question – So what’s new since I was last here in XXXX?
Mostly the response is – Not much! Continue reading “Enniskillen – A walk around the Island”
Getting around Enniskillen
Enniskillen town is small and, assuming you are staying in the town area, pretty much everything of interest to the average tourist is within walking distance, for someone of average or better fitness and mobility. Continue reading “Getting around the town and County”
Should you visit Enniskillen I strongly recommend that you visit the Fermanagh Visitors Information Centre (tourist office). In addition to being able to provide you information on Enniskillen the extremely knowledgeable and engaging staff can advise you on everywhere and everything in County Fermanagh and indeed further afield. Continue reading “Visit the Fermanagh Visitors Information Centre”
When to Visit
The best time to visit Enniskillen and County Fermanagh is between May and September.
While rain is likely at any time of year (the greenness you will encounter doesn’t just happen!) it is marginally less likely and temperatures are at least warmer between these months. Personally I prefer May or September to the more touristy (never overbearing) and school holidays high season in July and August. Continue reading “When to visit and how to get to Enniskillen”
….fare thee well for a while.
Perhaps an odd title for the first in a series of entries on a place rather close to my heart. Let me explain.
Typically when I travel I am very conscious of exactly where I am. This, of course, is related to the fact that I have to work out how to get to where I am and how to get away.
I generally don’t go on tours but in North Korea there is no option. Here one has no say where one is brought, what one sees and where one eats so one tends to switch off and go with the flow. It a sorta “Beam me up Scotty” to the next sight I must see. Continue reading “Dining in the DMZ”
On your visit to the DMZ from either side of the border you cannot fail to notice two massive flagpoles and flags, one North Korean and the other South Korean. I have written a separate review on these flags –Mine is bigger than yours – The Flagpole War . In that review I also mentioned how the Korean War, with the signing of the Armistice Agreement in 1953, in the main, converted from one of direct military combat to one of propaganda. In addition to direct propaganda, one-upmanship and brinkmanship have long (since 1953) been key components in gaining the upper hand and the minds of people on the Korean Peninsula and in the wider world. Every opportunity to provoke and antagonise the enemy is grabbed by both sides. As the saying goes, it takes two to tango. Continue reading “Little flags and naughty soldiers?”
The Rambling Wombat 