First of all we needed to get all 6 bikes onto the car. This was achieved with a three bike carrier on the back and three separate ones on the roof. We then set off on our exciting adventure. We drove through some beautiful places and I drove over my very first viaduct! Then through these little tunnels in the road and all the way up the coast until we got to Ballycastle where we boarded the ferry.
We had a great ferry ride (well should I say those who don't get sea sick) It was relatively rough and it was like a fun fare ride, four of us had a great time! (Pete and Cheryn were thinking that they still had to get back.) Then when we got there the lady from the hostel fetched our bags and we rode our bikes up to our little home for three days. What an exciting feeling to know you are riding a bike on an island. After we had eaten and chosen our rooms we went for a ride out to the Rue light house.
All of this ancient history, relatively untouched for hundreds of years. We slept well that night I can tell you, we were so exhausted. This is the view from our room at sun set.
The next two days were spent on the white pebble beach watching the fat seals, cycling to the East and West Light houses and lying on the wind swept grass. And lots of other things too including Cheryn vomiting. Zeek and I went to the little one room shop to see if we could get her something sweet in order to get some sugar into her system. Being a sleepy island, it was closed, so I said to Zeek: "Let's go to the bar (Being an Irish island it was open) and get her a fizzy drink" Zeek looked rather worried and said: "You mean we are going into a place where men smash bottles over each others heads all the time?"Let me explain; the only bars Zeek or any of our kids have ever seen have been on Laurel and Hardy or Pirates of the Caribbean. And as you know there is a lot of bottle smashing that goes on there. It was so cute to see the innocence.
A great time was had by all.
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