2008 - United Kingdom - Day 13 - Rope Bridge, Giants Causeway, Dublin

Today was a great day! We left our hotel at 9:00 am. By the way, SAME breakfasts in Ireland and in Scotland and England. We took a coastal drive north from Belfast. We drove about 1.5 hours to a place called Carrick-a-Rede. It was a gorgeous place on the coast with some islands. We walked 2/3 of a mile down this pathway along the cliff edge. There was a rope bridge that attached it to a nearby island. It was pretty cool and kind of scary walking across it. Mom was in front of me and kept asking me if I was jumping. Once across, she said was not going back across. Wow the little island was so beautiful. It was very small; we could walk the perimeter in 10 mins. It was covered in soft spongy grass. I found a little outcrop of the soft grass on the edge of the cliff and sat on it for awhile and was once again amazed at where I was and felt very blessed to be there. We then drove to the Giants Causeway. That is also right off the coast of Ireland. It is a bunch of interesting rock formations. We drove the tram down and walked and climbed around the stones. It was really neat. I’ve never seen anything like it. We then went to the Dunluce Castle. It was all in ruins, but perched on the edge of a cliff off the coast. It was fun exploring the castle. We then had a 4 hour drive ahead of us going south to Dublin. Mike put on a jeopardy game for us from all we had learned about on our trip. I really enjoyed it and fount out I had learned a lot. We took a couple of breaks along the way. One was at a church in a city where St. Patrick lived and was the center of the church at that time. Then we stopped at a shopping center for dinner. Mom and I decided to just wait till we got to our hotel and eat our snacks.