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Monday, November 7, 2011

Giant's Causeway

Went to bed late again last night.  Wasn't doing anything special but was shocked at the news of losing Hickstead yesterday!  Had to watch tribute videos to him.  Can't believe the loss of such an amazing, once in a lifetime, world class horse.  My thoughts and prayers go out to Eric Lamaze and his team <3

Got up around 8 am this morning and headed down for my freshly made warm English breakfast....yummy!
I only had about a 10 minute walk to meet my tour guide for the day and like that we were off to the Giant;s Causeway, rope bridge, Derry and the Dun Leuce Castle.
Another super sunny day but darn COLD!  It was freezing this morning and there was frost everywhere.
The bus with Paddywagon tours was nice and comfy and our guide Troy was hilarious!
The rope bridge made my knees shake more then I thought it would.  Don't worry I took a video so you can see what I went through :)  That felt pretty high, and wobbly haha.
From there we headed to the Giants Causeway.  What an amazing wonder of the world....how the heck did those rocks get like that??  Had the perfect conditions for pictures.

We then loaded up and had a quick photo op of what is said to be one of the most haunted castles ever before heading into Derry, the walled city.  Back in the day they built the walls to separate the English from the Irish, however the Irish couldn't afford to build the wall so the Englished paid for it on the condition that the town put London in front of their name....so it is now called Londonderry.....or Derry to the original people.  It's complicated but a really interesting place with a great feel.
Had an hour and a half drive back to Belfast and now I'm relaxing for the evening planning my day tomorrow as I'm off to Dublin....yay!!

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