Visiting Northern Ireland with My Tour Talk.
Are you planning a trip to Northern Ireland or perhaps even live here and want to experience some of the top tourist attractions on your doorstep?
Northern Ireland is easy to get to and it's easy to get around.
With three airports boasting frequent, low-cost flights throughout the UK and beyond, excellent fast ferry links to England and Scotland, plus good roads, buses and trains take you where you want to go with minimum fuss.
There is so much to Northern Ireland but the best way to take it all in, and have the best experience is to avail of a ‘My Tour Talk’ personal guide downloaded straight to your smartphone or MP3.
The personal guides cover some of the top places and attractions to experience when visiting the North of Ireland.
The Belfast Walking Tour
Get your very own tour guide and check out Belfast like a local, in your own time and at your own pace. This audio walking tour includes hundreds of attractions, historic pubs, galleries, museums, shops and even Belfast's oldest bleached blonde awaits you.
The Tour in DetailUncover and get to know the many attractions, hidden gems and quirky facts that Belfast City has to offer everyone. The full audio walking tour, and guide, lasts 2 hours and can be enjoyed in an hour, a morning, an afternoon or a full day if time allows! This walking tour is the perfect way to explore one of Europe's top visitor destinations. Compact and intimate, Belfast is best explored on foot. Packed with authentic pubs, elaborate architecture, sublime shopping and a not to be forgotten world famous maritime heritage.
Wet Days in Belfast
The Tour in Detail
Don't believe everything you may have heard about the weather in Belfast. It is true that, from time to time, there can be the occasional spot of rain. Listen to Belfast on Wet Days and get up to speed with all the very best attractions no matter what the weather is doing, including a few rounds of indoor golf, an award winning Science Park, ice hockey, bowling, world class shopping and a lot more too.
Belfast Pub ToursVisiting pubs in Belfast such as, The Crown Bar, Empire Music Hall, Lavery's Gin Palace, Muriel's, The Spaniard, and the Cloth Ear.
The Tour in Detail
Enjoy two fully guided pub tours tucked away in the City's cobbled streets in the Cathedral Quarter and the lively Botanic student Quarter, in South Belfast. Be guided to some of Belfast's best known pubs and a few that you won't find on your own. Only the very best Belfast pubs have been handpicked with local craic, food and music guaranteed. Each tour includes at least 7 pit-stops all offering a Belfast nightlife experience that you won't forget in a hurry.
Causeway Coastal Route
Experiencing the Giant's Causeway, Carrick a Rede Rope Bridge, Portrush, Portstewart, Beaches, Castles, Stunning Walks, and Forests.
The Tour in Detail
The Causeway Coastal Route is one of the most spectacular road journeys in the World. This 150kms of audio driving Tour features the Unesco World Heritage site, the Giant's Causeway. As you are guided from point to point starting at the ancient Norman Town of Carrickfergus along the coast to Mussenden Temple there is so much to see and do. Ancient Castles waiting to be explored, seaside villages, award winning beaches, scenery that will take your breath away, surfing, shopping, fishing, forest walks and waterfalls are waiting for you to get out of the car and enjoy.
Derry Walking Tour
17th Century City Walls, UK City of Culture 2013, Clipper Round the World Race 2012, Award winning Museums, Galleries and Cathedral's, and authentic Irish Pubs
The Tour in DetailDerry - Londonderry dates back to the 6th Century and is home to Ireland's youngest people. So if its culture, the oldest City Walls in Ireland, stories, fun and a bit of local craic you're after, then this one hour audio guide is an experience you can't miss. Guide your way, at your own pace, through the busy cobbled streets. This City is soaked in culture - but be prepared to laugh, cry and at times find the content simply unbelievable.
Armagh City Tour
The Cathedrals of Armagh, St.Patricks's Trian and Visitor Centre, Armagh Public Library and County Museum, Rocket launching at Armagh Planetarium and Observatory.
The Tour in Detail
This compact and intimate Irish Georgian City ideally lends itself to an audio walking tour. Start out at the award winning Saint Patrick's Trian Visitor Complex and explore the Land of Lilliput and Saint Patrick's Testament. Walk up to both Cathedrals’, not far from the Armagh Public Library, and home to a copy of Gulliver's Travels with Swift's own hand writing. Of course the Armagh County Museum deserves a visit too but maybe the future is calling you? Just off the Mall catch a glimpse of the Observatory, and the grounds of the Astropark, before visiting the Planetarium to launch your very own rocket!
Fermanagh Driving Tour
Enniskillen Market Town, Spectacular Lakeland Scenery, Castle Coole, Florence Court, Killadeas, Lusty Beg Island, and Belleek Pottery.
The Tour in DetailThese two audio driving tours guide you around Enniskillen town and Castle before setting out to the stunning National Trust properties of Castle Coole and Florence Court. Then it's time to journey to the centre of the earth at the Marble Arch Caves Global Geopark. If you're still eager to know more and would like visit one of Fermanagh's 365 islands head off to Killadeas for a game of golf, boat ride and a tasty bite in the Manor House Hotel. Or maybe water-sports appeal at Castle Archdale before taking a short ferry ride over to the holiday island of Lusty Beg. And we haven't even mentioned a tour around the world famous Belleek Pottery.
Down Driving Tour
Mount Stewart House and Gardens, Strangford Lough and Ferry Ride, Portaferry and Aquarium, Castleward House, St. Patrick’s Centre in Downpatrick, Murlough Bay, Newcastle and Mournes.
The Tour in Detail
Make sure that you get the most from County Down and follow this picturesque driving tour. Just 30 minutes from Belfast Mount Stewart's spectacular House and Gardens sit alongside Strangford, the largest sea Lough in the British Isles. From there travel to the authentic seaside village of Portaferry before taking a quick ferry ride to Strangford and a delicious snack in the 250 year old Cuan Guest Inn. But we are only getting going and if time permits Castleward House awaits. By now you may have run out of time but a bracing walk in Murlough Nature Reserve will set you up for a visit to the stunning setting of Newcastle and Tollymore Forest Park in the Mountain of Mournes.
My Tour Talk is a fun and new way to explore Northern Ireland with a real difference! You can download personally guided walking or driving tours that allow you to explore in your own time and at your own pace. Simply download the iPhone or Android App, rent a pre-loaded MP3, or download the easy to follow walking and driving tours, with fully illustrated maps, allowing you to explore Northern Ireland from coast to coast.Visit the website at http://www.mytourtalk.com or ‘like’ us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/My-Tour-Talk/161751240573867
Cead Mile Failte from My Tour Talk!
This represented an increase of 20% compared with the same period of the previous year, 2010.
NI residents took 4.7 million leisure day trips within the North, of which 1.8 million were tourism-related visits, in the same period.
"Tourism Ireland will also be rolling out a busy programme of promotional activity to target a range of potential visitors around the world in the run-up to the London 2012 Olympic Games and will be liaising ahead of the games with ‘Visit London’ and ‘Visit Britain’." 
Like so many other valued tourists are you planning a trip to Northern Ireland or perhaps you are a Northern Ireland resident and want to experience some of the top tourist attractions on your doorstep?
