Day 2

Today we travel from Derry to Belfast. This was the most scenic of all the days of the tour....we started with a walking tour of historic Derry.
Our walking tour guide (not the regular guide) first took us to a grassed where i took this photo.


From here the guide took us to a walled of section were 600 people live who belive they are still british. In this area you can see british flags flying and even the curbs are painted blue white and red symbolising the union jack. Strange place.

Now we headed along the coast and to one of the seven natural wonders of the world, The Giants Causeway. Very briefly the story goes that a giant came from across the ocean by building this causeway and for some reason or another he had to destroy the causeway across the sea and so we are left with this very intriguing rock formation. The scientific view is something like there was a glacier that got blown up by a volcano and somehow left the rocks the way they are.

So here you go, a small piece of the Giants Causeway

I've made this picture a little larger so you can see the detail in the background as well as the foreground.

You cant really appreciate this place without actually going there because it is on such a large scale and has quite a few different attractions like large rocks formed in recognisable shapes the pipes in the wall, the chimney etc... one of the shapes is a camel might i add! To get around the whole thing you need around an hour and a half, you take the low road there and look back at the views on the high road back to the carpark.

Now we ventured to the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge that was built by the fishermen to get to their little island which must have been a good place for fishing, but i cant relly see the point because the island is only a very short ways further out in the ocean! Luckily we were allowed to cross the bridge because they shut it after we finished due to high winds.
It was quite a pretty place but you'll have to put up with a picci of me on the bridge (obviously it had been recontructed since the original)

Look 'no hands'.

From the island which is in the direction the photo was taken from we did see a dolphin on the right so i guess there may have been some decent fishing in the area and maybe the old guys actually new a thing or two.

After a big day visiting the the sights we arrived in Belfast a little late so we checked in and went off to one of the local resteraunts and had a feast and a couple of drinks followed by a relitively early night.