{"id":16140,"date":"2018-05-08T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=16140"},"modified":"2018-05-08T20:40:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T19:40:46","slug":"explore-and-experience-ards-and-north-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/05\/explore-and-experience-ards-and-north-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore and Experience Ards and North Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Visitors can explore more of Ards and North Down through a series of bespoke walking, bus and boat tours running until November 2018.<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16141\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/press1-5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>A highlight of the programme is the new \u2018Gardens and Gin\u2019 tour that visits the historic Mount Stewart Gardens and Echlinville Distillery that brews the world renowned JawBox Gin.\u00a0 With firm favourite, \u2018Woodland and Whiskey\u2019 returning for those that prefer to learn more about Echlinville\u2019s famous Dunville Whiskey.<\/p>\n<p>Another \u2018must-do\u2019 is the unique opportunity to have \u2018Tea with the Lord\u2019 on a visit to Ballywalter Estate, home of Lord and Lady Dunleath.\u00a0 Their 270-acre estate is not usually open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Parents can keep the kids entertained during the summer months with a series of nature themed adventures.\u00a0 The ever-popular boat tours of Strangford Lough will run in July, August and September and the \u2018sell-out\u2019 Halloween Walking Tours in Bangor and Newtownards return in October.<\/p>\n<p>A full programme can be downloaded at <strong>visitardsandnorthdown.com<\/strong> or you can pick up a hard copy at Bangor or Newtownards Visitor Information Centres:<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors can explore more of Ards and North Down through a series of bespoke walking, bus and boat tours running until November 2018. A highlight of the programme is the new \u2018Gardens and Gin\u2019 tour that visits the historic Mount Stewart Gardens and Echlinville Distillery that brews the world renowned JawBox Gin.\u00a0 With firm favourite, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/05\/explore-and-experience-ards-and-north-down\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16142,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions\/16142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}