During our stay in Ireland, we found one more interesting point on the map – the Giant’s Causeway. At first, it is an unique natural monument, secondly, its location gives us an opportunity to see the north part of the isle and visit Belfast.
Because of the work load (we had to spend time on working with other projects), we left the hotel at 3 am. Anyway, two drivers are better then just a one. One is sleeping, another is driving.
Northern Ireland met us with the Imperial Measurement System (miles and yards instead of kilometers and meters) and with a heavy rain. No border control, no checks… Nothing. You can only notice border crossing by a road signs change.
And here is the shore! Wet sand is trying to leak into my shoes. The camera is being flooded by the rain. What a great weather! I think I had to go swimming. It was about 12 degrees in the street, but I could jump in the water at least for a moment… Nobody could see it at 5 am anyway 🙂
Iceland is behind the Ocean. And according to the map, shouldn’t be far away 🙂
We’re going along the shore and searching for the sights.
The first is Dunluce Castle:
Let’s try to find the Giant’s Causeway. It should be somewhere near.
The road changed into the path. We have to go on foot. To say the truth, it is a bit wet. But who thinks about getting wet and cold when the adventure is so near?! 🙂
Beautiful bushes with an unknown name.
That’s our aim! Let’s try to go down…
This should be our way… Ahead, then to the left, then back by the path in the center. The navigation sign promised 160 stairs to go 🙂
Long, cold, wet, but unbelievably beautiful!
Say hello to the stairs! Photo doesn’t show it, but stoned stairs are very slippery and washed by numerous water streams.
It is easy to go down, but later you’ll have to go up!
That’s no one here. Everyone is sleeping.
But we could find a guide.
The wall.
We are going thaaaat far…
This is a “Giant’s boot”.
And here is the reason of our sleepless night.
Let’s climb these wet slippery stores!
Paved road.
Do you remember Titanic (built in Ireland, by the way).
The wind was so strong that Mike had almost fell down.
Some more pictures of stones and we’re going back to the car. My shoes are full of water.
Aaaaaaaah…
If one of us fell down and broke something, the other could call for an emergency right from here!
Ok… Going to Belfast. Irish fog.
I like roads like this. Sometimes trees are even more thick!
These clouds are easy to touch!
Extremely beautiful place for the house.
Countryside road.
Is it a new Windows XP wallpaper?
Kia Venga in Norther Ireland’s dirt.
From the first sight, Northern Ireland seemed to be more gray then the Republic of Ireland. Roads seemed to be more dirty, litter on the road sides, gloomy people around, a lot more of a cold rain… Is it because of the north location?!
Some Belfast.
Architecture is really boring sometimes.
We are going back to Dublin, trying to find some interesting sights. It is 3pm and it is 7 hours to our plane.
Highway.
Irish nature 🙂
Private mini gas station. We do not have gas stations of this format in Russia.
After leaving the gas station, I started driving on the right lane. Only after half a minute I understood I am doing something wrong.
Some more countryside.
A little town.
Sheep are going home. Traffic jams in Ireland.
Small town’s quay.
The grass is so attractive. It is inviting to lie down on it. But it is too wet because of rains.
As soon as we got back into the Republic of Ireland, we found lots of sight signs.
We noticed the Ardgillan Castle and decided to look at it.
The lawn is wonderful.
And here is the castle itself:
Back entrance door is modest.
But view from this back side is exciting. What a good place for a castle!
This is a very interesting tree. But I still do not know its name.
The last sight that we could visit is Skerries Windmills, located not far from the castle.
So we got back to Dublin, found some food, bought some fridge magnets, walked along the city center in the evening and arrived at the airport. It is the end of our marvelous travel to the land of castles fogs and juicy grass lawns.
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1. Introduction
2. Southern Ireland
3. Dublin
4. Northern Ireland. Belfast
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