We were off to explore the north east coast of Northern Ireland today so after breakfast at the guesthouse we walked down to the tour office to meet our bus. Setting off at 10am with a chock-a-block bus we first stopped at Carrickfergus for a quick photo stop at the 12th century Norman castle only about 20mins north of Belfast. The driver kept up the commentary the whole journey as we continued along the Antrim coast road passing quaint little fishing villages &a...

We had to drag ourselves out of bed at 5.30am for our 7.30am Easyjet flight to Belfast. Sue was lovely enough to get up equally early to drive us to the airport where we just fit in a quick breaky before the short flight. We were soon on the bus into Belfast & then dropping off our bags at the guesthouse before going to find a stop near the very grand Queens University for the Hop on Hop off bus which we purchased as a combo with our Giants Causeway day trip ...