So on Thurs we were up bright and early and as predicted, the weather was fantastic. We headed off with a list of things to try and see on the North Coast (everyone knows how i love my planned agendas!) but it can be tough to fit everything into one day.
We detoured immediately on the way up to the coast, and stopped off at Dunloy as we thought that there was a memorial to Joey Dunlop there. It turns out that we were wrong and the memorial is actually in Ballymoney (nearest big town to Dunloy village) but a kind stranger directed us to the site of his grave at a nearby church. Roadworks forced us to go through Ballymoney anyway, so we found the Memorial Garden easily. There's a massive big metallic sculpture of Joey on this Honda bike and huge marble plaques listing all his victories. If the sculpture is life-sized (as it appeared to be), then Joey really was a very small man!
The next stop was anther detour from our plan as I saw a sign for White Rocks beach and hung a sudden left down the steep path (apologies to Mum and G if they banged their heads!). It was really a case of back to my childhood here and the day could not have been better...
After that stop, we bailed on towards Dunluce Castle, a ruin on coast near Portrush. It would have been one of the biggerst castles in the area and is most famous because the kitchen area fell into the sea one night during a storm, while a banquet was being held in the castle.
Dunluce is a great place for the amateur photographer, no matter what the weather. The light was somewhat harsh for my liking last week and i wasn't using the camera that i'm used to, so here are some photos i took on a previous visit:
Next stop that i can remember was the Giant's Causeway, a World Heritage site and one of the favourite stops for tourists along the causeway coast. We had great fun pottering about on the columns and noticed something weird going on over the other side.... three guys walking around with an ironing board?!?! The penny dropped as i realised that they were out extreme ironing!
By the time i made it round to them, they had packed up and were heading back. I was really disappointed as i wanted to get a photo... but next thing they were setting up the board and asking me did i want to have a go - and since it was all in the good name of Children in Need, i was delighted to hand over some sponsorship money and have a go! Big kudos goes out to Thomas, Alex and Iain for taking the time to let me get this shot....
That's well enough for this post, the saga continues soon with tales of the Bushmills Distillery....
We detoured immediately on the way up to the coast, and stopped off at Dunloy as we thought that there was a memorial to Joey Dunlop there. It turns out that we were wrong and the memorial is actually in Ballymoney (nearest big town to Dunloy village) but a kind stranger directed us to the site of his grave at a nearby church. Roadworks forced us to go through Ballymoney anyway, so we found the Memorial Garden easily. There's a massive big metallic sculpture of Joey on this Honda bike and huge marble plaques listing all his victories. If the sculpture is life-sized (as it appeared to be), then Joey really was a very small man!
The next stop was anther detour from our plan as I saw a sign for White Rocks beach and hung a sudden left down the steep path (apologies to Mum and G if they banged their heads!). It was really a case of back to my childhood here and the day could not have been better...
After that stop, we bailed on towards Dunluce Castle, a ruin on coast near Portrush. It would have been one of the biggerst castles in the area and is most famous because the kitchen area fell into the sea one night during a storm, while a banquet was being held in the castle.
Dunluce is a great place for the amateur photographer, no matter what the weather. The light was somewhat harsh for my liking last week and i wasn't using the camera that i'm used to, so here are some photos i took on a previous visit:
Next stop that i can remember was the Giant's Causeway, a World Heritage site and one of the favourite stops for tourists along the causeway coast. We had great fun pottering about on the columns and noticed something weird going on over the other side.... three guys walking around with an ironing board?!?! The penny dropped as i realised that they were out extreme ironing!
By the time i made it round to them, they had packed up and were heading back. I was really disappointed as i wanted to get a photo... but next thing they were setting up the board and asking me did i want to have a go - and since it was all in the good name of Children in Need, i was delighted to hand over some sponsorship money and have a go! Big kudos goes out to Thomas, Alex and Iain for taking the time to let me get this shot....
That's well enough for this post, the saga continues soon with tales of the Bushmills Distillery....
posted by ellybabes at 10/18/2005 08:26:00 pm
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