the paddywagon.

After traveling to Belfast in Northern Ireland with some friends we decided to take a Paddywagon tour. After all, we were staying in Paddies Palace it was only appropriate we rode his wagon as well. Although we went to many beautiful places, the ride was a bit lack luster. Literally, seeing as we had no heat on our bus and freezing weather outside. And our tour guide Troy, with his gelled spiked hair and all, kept talking ridiculously loud the entire time, bombarding us with sub par jokes and equally sub par techo when we were attempting a snooz. Lets just say base booming is for the club with a drink in hand, not for a bus full of sleepy, possibly hungover foreigners. They had enough of that the night before! However, even though Troy was annoying, he was very nice and had one or two gems of dirty "Patty" jokes. 

We went from Belfast, along the Antrim Coast to Giants Causeway, down to Derry and all the way back to Belfast again. Needless to say it was a big day. I'll make another blog post all dedicated to Derry and Belfast, but for now, let's look at the coast!

North Antrim Coast 

and the Carrick-a Rede Rope Bridge

(Which cost 5 pounds to cross... So, guess who just took pictures?) 

The Atlantic Ocean! 

We had the most beautiful clear weather!

                                      

Thats me! And this view is one of the most breathtaking I have seen. 

The Foot Bridge. It was originally for fishermen, but then the National Trust bought and rebuilt it. Making the bridge a tourist attraction which is unfortunately not free anymore. (although it is much less likely to break, sending someone to a watery grave) 

Thats an island where 60ish inbred people live. There's a rare bird sanctuary there too. Oh, and not to mention Scotland. 

 Giant's Causeway

Basically two horny giants (one Irish and one Scottish)  built the causeway to fight for one giantess, who just so happened to be the fairest giantess of them all. But really, the causeway was the result of lava hardening from an ancient volcano.

 But who wants to hear that boring story?
 I'd much rather hear the one about the giants fighting over a lady.
  

Aww aren't they cute. 

This was pretty much like a giant jungle gym of stairs. I can't really think of any other  way to put it.

 Amanda and Emma feelin the love!

Dunluce Castle

Yep, thats it . 

The tricolor! in nature, no less!