Day 14: Belfast, Northern Ireland

Another beautiful day as we arrive in Belfast around 11 am and dock just beside where Titanic was built. Today I have arranged a black cab for the 4 of us to visit the Giant’s Causeway at the northern tip of Ireland. Today is Harry and Diann’s anniversary and the big bad wolf sent her a dozen red roses this morning. Tom is our driver for the day and he gives us a great tour. He lived through the worst of the fighting and told us many interesting stories about it. We stop at an overlook for the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge the fishermen put up but decline the chance to walk across it!

The Glens of Antrim are beautiful as we drove through. The Giants Causeway is very busy but I think our arrival time is great because when we come back up the hill we find a very long line waiting to take the bus down and it was walk on when we got there.

We take the coastal route back to Belfast and get a wonderful overview of the “Troubles” area of Belfast seeing both sides’ murals and the wall that separated the Protestants and Catholics which is still locked every night to this day.

Tim writing on the Peace Wall

We make a quick trip down to the docks where the Titanic ship was built then back to the ship around 7 pm.