Today was an action packed day of being tourists. We drove up to Sheskin in Donegal County first which is where Brett's grandfather (his Dad's dad) grew up. It was rather odd driving along and suddenly the speed signs changed from miles to kilometres and the currency also changed. No border control though!

We were armed with the address '#5 Sheskin' from 1911. Unfortunately we weren't as successful as we were in Downpatrick ... and there were no people around to ask. So we took a photo of every house in the hope that one of them will be right ;)

Given we were so close, we decided to drive up to Malin Head which is the most northerly point in Ireland. It is however in the Republic not Northern Ireland. After taking the off-road track (thanks to our GPS directions) we made it. It was a tad wet and windy but that was ok. We have kind of got used to the 'summer' here ... grey but not too cold!

We took a car ferry over the Lough Foyle to save ourselves some driving time and then headed to the Giant's Causeway coastal route. Giant's Causeway itself is pretty impressive with its 40,000 hexagonal shaped columns of all different heights. About a billion other tourists also thought the same as they swarmed everywhere ;) We saw the camel, the granny (only visible if you squint your eyes and leant on your left foot while holding your right arm in the air and having drunk a Guinness or tree (as they say here)), the organ and the wishing chair (or something like it). I was surprisingly pleased to have walked Lion's Head last week ... as it made these steep hills seem like a doddle.

After catching the bus back to our car we set off to the next touristy thing, Carrick-a-rede rope bridge. Was kind of amusing seeing a number of the same people again. Despite my fear of heights, I did cross the bridge and it wasn't too bad (probably because it did have a wooden plank to walk on). The small island destination wasn't all that exciting, but at least we can tick that off the bucket list ;)

At this point it was around 6pm so we headed to Dunluce Castle. For the first time since we arrived in Ireland, there was patches of blue sky!!! We were pretty excited and took a few photos to photoshop into the other ones :)

(Brief side note: Since starting the above blog, we have since made it from Derry to Belfast to Amsterdam and now we're on a train to Friesland (hopefully). Rebecca's not so keen on typing while moving so I've taken over. The train has internet too - wow!)

On our way back to Derry we got stuck in an awesome traffic jam and noted once again that the drivers here are extremely rude and impatient (oh, and they park any side of the road no matter what the road markings are). Rebecca took a few photos to pass the time and we took a few more of the murals in Derry when we finally arrived, which I have collaged for your viewing pleasure.

Good bye Ireland and thanks for making us feel a little at home with your green fields and abundance of sheeps.

- Rebecca and Brett