2 Bayhead Rd, Portballintrae, Antrim, Bushmills BT57 8RZ Overlooking the tranquil North Antrim bay in which snuggles the harbour village of Portballintrae, the Bayview Hotel has surprisingly a story to tell of noise and action of guns and war. In May 1918 a German submarine was engaged in conflict with the British Merchant steamer, the […]
43 Main St, Portrush BT56 8BL Part of the same labyrinthine complex as the Londonderry Hotel, the Atlantic Bar boasts one of the nicest fronts we have seen in a small pub. You’ll expect to see a chap with a pipe, tweed jacket and scarf parking his Lagonda outside. From the mosaic doorway entrance between […]
1 High St, Carnlough, Ballymena BT44 0EP It had to be an exceptional bar to get me to make a special journey to Carnlough to see it. I thought I had completed my pub odyssey of the north but then I noticed in a local Sunday Paper that THE WATERFALL was awarded Bushmills bar of […]
23 Mill St, Cushendall, Ballymena BT44 0RR There are some pubs that you simply fall in love with right away, usually little old places that seem to have defied or escaped the passage of time. McCollam’s is just such a bar, a corner in Cushendall that seems to contain all the history of the village, […]