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Chapter 6 Part 1 - Hiking, a fascinating tour and countless hexagons

HardQore SteviKiwi | 10.06.2010 1 0

June 1st, 2010

Hey again!

Well, last time I said that I would blog something like useful information about Belfast, but I would prefer to do this next time because it happened so much last weekend, especially on Sunday the 30th May...

Since the very beginning of our staying in Belfast Friedrich, Riccardo and I wanted to see one of the steep coasts here in Northern Ireland. Probably the most famous coast over here is the "Giant's Causeway", so we decided to check this out on Sunday.
Therefore we had to search in the Internet for the possibilities to do such a trip - and we found a good offer: The travel organization "McComb's Executive Travel & Tours" offers a tour across the Antrim Coastal Route to the Giant's Causeway with a few 'photo stops' and other attractions included for 20£ per person.
The tour lasts from 9.20 am to approximately 7.00 pm, thus we had to get up early on Sunday morning. At the McComb's office we bought the tickets and waited a short time before the travel starts. The bus was totally full and our driver, he calls himself "Mr. Sexy"xD, was really kind and funny. He talked the whole trip about the many sights, points of interest and about the Irish and Northern Irish history.
Our first (and short) stop was in Carrickfergus for taking photos from an old castle. At least we realized that we definitely chose the right day - the weather was awesome! While taking photos and kidding around, we were accosted by two girls from Stuttgart: Anna, who studies since two years in Dublin, and Christine, who visited her. Based on that, we found two nice travel companions... =)

Along the Coastal Route we saw so many beautiful landscapes like hills, cliffs and even beaches. The beaches here looked like the Caribbean ones, which were kind of strange and amazing together, because I never expected that in Northern Ireland. A hundreds of photos later we had another short stop at a small and nice harbor and at a viewpoint where we could see a rope bridge, of which more later...

After a few more driving minutes along the coast and through pretty villages and another three hundreds of photos later we finally reached the Giant's Causeway. The bus parked besides a restaurant, where you could have a meal if you ordered one at the bus driver before. But we didn't.
Now you had to choose between 2 paths down to the Giant's Causeway: An easier, shorter and almost boring one or a longer, more exciting path within a stair part called "Shepherd's steps". Well the second path sounds tempting, so the girls and we three followed its call.

The upper part of the Shepherd's steps with Christine and Anna:
http://userblogs.fu-berlin.de...shepherds-steps.jpg


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