You may have noticed that I skipped day three. It was a generally nice day, but I didn’t do anything particularly eventful so I didn’t feel the need to write about it.
Day four was mostly taken up by another tour, but of sites in the North.
Our first stop was Belfast. We opted to skip the available Black Cab tour and spent some time looking at the area around City Hall.
After this, we moved on to the ruins of Dunluce Castle. A local legend states that the castle’s kitchen fell into the sea one day, killing all of the staff save for one boy. The lady of the house was so distraught by this that she refused to ever step foot inside again, and it fell into disrepair. The actual truth is that the MacDonnell family fell into poverty after the Battle of the Boyne, and were forced to abandon the castle.
After this, we headed on to the Giant’s Causeway – our final destination. It was formed about 50 or 60 million years ago when a giant basalt lava flow poured into a chalk bed. When basalt lava cools it can make impressive column structures, and the causeway has them in abundance.
