Giants Causeway and our Game of Thrones hunt.

After our fun filled exploration day in Belfast, the next day we all packed into the car to drive up the Antrim coast and Giants Causeway. It was not one of the best days for weather, sleeting, fresh fallen snow and poor visibility, not great for sightseeing, but when in Ireland in Winter, you just have to take the good with the bad.

The roads are also quite narrow and not the best to drive on when it is slippery with ice, the temperature was 2degrees.

We were on the hunt for the Games of Throne, (GOT) film locations on our way to The Giants Causeway.

First stop was Dark Hedges, called the Kings Road in GOT. These beautiful beech trees were planted a couple of centuries ago by the  Stuart family, they wanted a magnificent entry to their mansion, Gracehill House, to impress their visitors, it certainly impressed me.

In 2016 there was a storm and some of these beautiful trees were blown over, so about 10 door were made from the wood, depicting the GOT iconic symbols.

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 The Dark Hedges, also known as The Kings Road in GOT

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This is one of the doors, No 6 at the Fullerton Arms in Ballintoy on the Antrim coast road. House of Targaryen, specifically Drogon, Daenerys most agressive dragon.

I thought it was a turtle, but alas it was a rock

The entry and visitors centre at the Giants Causeway.

The Giants boot at the Giants Causeways 

Part of the Giant Causeway

Alex on The granite  steps.

Rock formation on the coast road.

Our guide on the Giants Causeway, irelands 

first UNESCO world heritage site.

I did not walk on them, as they were very smooth as well as slippery.

 After our guided tour of the Giants Causeway we drove up to the furthest most tip of Northern Ireland to Bushrope, where again we stumbled upon another great restaurant, offering £5 lunches with the most amazing desserts

 I did not partake of this great display of desserts, very full from my shepherds pie.

My shepherds pie, for one it was two meals.

After lunch we drove to the famous Bushropes golf course, where the British open will be played in July.

The famous Bushropes golf club and grounds

The golf course.

Not a great day, but a beautiful  golf course 

and there was even people playing golf on this miserable day.

DH would love this red phone box

 We visited the Bushmills whiskey distillery.

We did not 

purchase any whiskey.

Carrick-a-Rede, this is where the rope bridge is, it spans 20mtrs and the depth is 30mtrs, we arrived a little late for us to walk across the bridge, I was not too upset about not walking across due to the inclement weather

 This beautiful cliff line is also in the GOT,  not sure which scene, lost my information brochure

After our visit to Carrick-a-Rede, we made our way back to Belfast, our visit is coming to an end, in the morning we will do the Black cab tour. 

We were picked up by the cabbie and he took us around to the peace walls, housing estates of the Catholics and Protestant ‘s, we looked at all the murals painted and dedicated to fallen heroes. And not so fallen heroes 

We were also taken to Bombay Street, where all the houses were burnt down and a memorial garden has been built.

Part of the peace wall.

Our black cabbie.

William of Orange.

 These murals are in the housing estates

Peace wall.

After this informative tour, we visited the Ulster museum to view the GOT tapestry, it is 253foot long, hard to get it all in the photo..

The GOT tapestry at the Ulster museum.

.unwanted woman sculptures in Belfast,  near the shopping centre.

Time to say goodbye to Northern Island and hello Dublin.