Northern Ireland and a scenic driving route of Antrim Cost is said to be one of the most beautiful in the world. It includes several tourist attraction places but also many other locations where you just feel like to pull over the car and enjoy the views. This was also also the last day in Easter Brake roadtrips and was done with a mixture of Finnish-French-German team. As you might already imagine, not too many hours of sleep during the night before and leaving on early morning 7am. Luckily the day was anyways great and sun was shining.
First we drove through Belfast and continued a bit further in town called Carrick Fergus, known of its castle and harbour. Of course we all agreed the fact that there are castles in every corner of Ireland so it is not anything super exciting. Main reason to stop there was the coffee tooth that was screaming to for a nice cup of coffee. At same as we were enjoying drinks, we made kind of a plan what we would like to see during the day.
As the curvy road followed up the coastal line narrowing down in some point where an alternative scenic loop route offered its possibility to see even more. One of the alternative routes lead us to place called a Torr Head where was an old already abandoned coastal guard station.The spot is the closest as you can get to Scotland from Ireland so because of the bright day we were able to see Scotland only 12 miles away.
It started to be lunchtime already and I started to be hungry. Problem was going to solve in Ballycastle town where was a famous place for fish and chips: Morrison's They make their portions using always fresh codfish. The best fish and chips I've tasted in Ireland so far. While eating we were sitting outside in a round table like the knights themselves as seagulls were flying over us to keep on eye if we would drop something.
Completing the huge portion made sure that with full stomach is good to continue forward. The dark hedges, fantastic drive where trees have grown over the road forming weird formation. I saw a picture of it in a guidebook which was taken at time of the day when it was still a bit dark so it looked even more better than in sunshine. Even that I should not complain if the sun is shining in Ireland and its not raining.
Even I mentioned earlier that there are castles every corner in Ireland, of course our next stop was to see ruins of Dunluce castle and after town of Castle Rock. Both places includes areas where the series Game of Thrones has been filmed. There we just stopped by for a second to stretch legs and get some fresh air before around 4 hour drive home to maynoot
One last night with around 4-5 hours of sleep before returning car back to the Airport. By curiosity I calculated that I drove in total 3500 kilometers during a week. As usual I took the airport hopper back to Maynooth. There was one couple and me on the bust at that time. I fell asleep almost immediatly after bus started... Driver drop the couple out somewhere on the road but I was in so deep sleep that I didnt even wake up for that... Week was thought: I was tired but happy because now I can say that I have seen everything I wanted and much more in Ireland.
First we drove through Belfast and continued a bit further in town called Carrick Fergus, known of its castle and harbour. Of course we all agreed the fact that there are castles in every corner of Ireland so it is not anything super exciting. Main reason to stop there was the coffee tooth that was screaming to for a nice cup of coffee. At same as we were enjoying drinks, we made kind of a plan what we would like to see during the day.As the curvy road followed up the coastal line narrowing down in some point where an alternative scenic loop route offered its possibility to see even more. One of the alternative routes lead us to place called a Torr Head where was an old already abandoned coastal guard station.The spot is the closest as you can get to Scotland from Ireland so because of the bright day we were able to see Scotland only 12 miles away.
It started to be lunchtime already and I started to be hungry. Problem was going to solve in Ballycastle town where was a famous place for fish and chips: Morrison's They make their portions using always fresh codfish. The best fish and chips I've tasted in Ireland so far. While eating we were sitting outside in a round table like the knights themselves as seagulls were flying over us to keep on eye if we would drop something.Even I mentioned earlier that there are castles every corner in Ireland, of course our next stop was to see ruins of Dunluce castle and after town of Castle Rock. Both places includes areas where the series Game of Thrones has been filmed. There we just stopped by for a second to stretch legs and get some fresh air before around 4 hour drive home to maynootOne last night with around 4-5 hours of sleep before returning car back to the Airport. By curiosity I calculated that I drove in total 3500 kilometers during a week. As usual I took the airport hopper back to Maynooth. There was one couple and me on the bust at that time. I fell asleep almost immediatly after bus started... Driver drop the couple out somewhere on the road but I was in so deep sleep that I didnt even wake up for that... Week was thought: I was tired but happy because now I can say that I have seen everything I wanted and much more in Ireland.
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