{"id":2080,"date":"2024-06-03T14:18:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:18:06","slug":"coastal-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"Coastal Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today we went on a bus tour of the Antrim Coast. I\u2019d been on tours of the area a couple of times before, but there were some changes this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, first stop was Carrickfergus Castle and harbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next stop was Carrick-a=Rede, with the rope bridge you can cross to a little island. But during the pandemic, the folks there laid off all the staff and didn\u2019t pay them any furlough wages, so they decided not to come back when the site reopened. That means that there aren\u2019t enough staff to handle tour buses, though apparently private cars are allowed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, we stopped at a viewing site, where we could look out across the North Atlantic at the rope bridge. But the fog was very thick, so we couldn\u2019t see it. Instead, here\u2019s a picture of a tree at the end of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next stop was the Dark Hedges, which I hadn\u2019t visited before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The trip to our next stop was\u2026 lengthy. It seemed all the highways we tried to travel on was obstructed by construction or heavy equipment or delivery trucks parked inconveniently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But we made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I have no idea who any of those people are, but I wanted a picture of the sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our final stop was the Giant\u2019s Causeway. I\u2019ve already got a bunch of pictures of the Causeway on this blog, so here are just a couple more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Belfast, after that. This is our last night in Northern Ireland – tomorrow, take the train down to Dublin for the final few days of our trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s been fun.<\/p>\n

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Today we went on a bus tour of the Antrim Coast. I\u2019d been on tours of the area a couple of times before, but there were some changes this time. Anyway, first stop was Carrickfergus Castle and harbour. The next stop was Carrick-a=Rede, with the rope bridge you can cross to a little island. But … Continue reading “Coastal Tour”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,351],"tags":[120,94,363,364,121],"class_list":["post-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belfast-ireland-2024","category-ireland-2024","tag-bushmill","tag-carrick-a-rede","tag-carrickfergus","tag-dark-hedges","tag-giants-causeway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8tF5A-xy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}