We had a good look around the new house and were duly impressed with the design and innovation and all the ecological bits and pieces and certainly housing technology has come a long way in the last few years with rain water gathering and heat pumps etc.
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| The Giants Causeway |
We left the house around 1030 and went along the coast to a car park whwre we walked across fields to the area where you can get to the ‘Giants Causway’ which was most impressive and also quite busy. We then walked back and sat in a wind sheltered space where we had a picnic lunch before heading down the coast to a number of small towns and ports where we could take some photos. This area of Northern Island is very rough and very attractive at the same time what with wild beaches and rocks and with strong winds blowing the sea at an incredible rate allowing great photos of sea smashing against the rocks.
Finally we ended up waling to the rope bridge at Carrick-A-Reda which is a a most dangerous looking bridge located near the village of Ballintoy, and it connects the mainland to where in the past they used to catch fish and walk across this bridge. The bridge is now a tourist attraction and thank god it was closed as there was no way Mr Groves was going to walk across this boy scout bridge.The back home for dinner and some more wine and then off to bed and boy were we tired after all that fresh air and walking
