It’s summertime, the sun is shining, and you’ve just completed your final exam at the prestigious Oxford University. The first thing you can look forward to in your newfound freedom? A face-full of raw fish and custard.

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The folks at Rosslyn Chapel may wish Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code hadn’t sold quite so many copies. Rosslyn was featured in the novel as a possible resting place for the Holy Grail, and its number of visitors to Roslin has since increased from 40,000 per year to 175,000 in 2006.

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Orcadians may be famed for their hospitality, but when the Ba’ game starts, visitors to the Orkeny Islands should leave the playing to those who know which way is Up and which is Down. Part street football, part anything goes, Ba’ is contested every Christmas and New Year in the streets of Kirkwall. Between 200 and 300 players are divided into two teams, “Up-the-Gates” and “Down-the-Gates,” and their mission is to move a cork-filled leather ball, the Ba’, to their respective goal—the harbor, for the Doonies, or a wall on Junction Rd., for the Uppies.

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It’s summertime, the sun is shining, and you’ve just completed your final exam at the prestigious Oxford University. The first thing you can look forward to in your newfound freedom? A face-full of raw fish and custard.

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The Protestant murals, in the Shankill area of West Belfast, tend to be overtly militant. Most are found near Hopewell St. and Hopewell Crescent, to the north of Shankill Rd., or down Shankill Parade and are accessed by traveling south from Crumlin Rd.

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The murals of West Belfast are a powerful testament to the volatile past and fierce loyalties of the divided neighborhoods. Many of the most famous Catholic murals are on Falls Rd., an area that saw some of the worst of the Troubles.

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Traveling from the Holy Land to Egypt, Sicily, and Spain before arriving in Ireland in AD 700, the Stone of Scone (sometimes called the “Stone of Destiny”) covered a lot of ground before it began its more recent commute between England and Scotland.

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