Ireland Trip : 20th September

Early this morning I went to Dublin City Center again like the day before for my second trip. Today I went to Giant’s Causeway! I made new friends again! Another Katie!! and Clera from Scotland. I’ll get back to them later.

Let me tell you about Giant Causeway. While I was strolling and enjoying the scenery, this thought came suddenly, ‘I wish I could spend my whole life here.’ A statement that even shocked me. Nature works in a mysterious way, doesn’t it?

‘Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby fruits of varying colors? And in the mountains are tracts, white and red of varying shades and [some] extremely black.’ (35:27)

After the Giant Causeway we went to Ballintoy, where there’s a bridge call Carrick-a-Rede. I was not really sure how high it was but I heard that some people simply turned back and refused to cross the bridge. 

Even Katie was very nervous while crossing the bridge. She hated height. But the view while you’re on the bridge is magnificent. What I love most about Belfast is that you can have both, mountains and sea at the same place. It’s like a dream comes true.

Our last stop was The Dark Hedges. It was where the Game of Thrones was filmed. It’s a simple normal road with unique trees called beech trees that was planted by the Stuart family in the 18^th century. Well that explains the signboard saying something like... Beware of the falling branches!   

So about Katie and Clera. They are two lovely ladies in their late 50s. Well… Katie is very lovely but Clera has a strong character but yet very friendly. They are nurses and on holiday. They have been friends since high school. Cool isn’t it!

Every time I conversed with them I felt like I was featuring in a British Film. With their accent and their sentences. There was one question from Katie that reminded me  of the sentences in English novels, ‘… So what do you hope to be?’ I understand the question. But honestly, I was strucked by the sentence she used just to ask my future plans in life.

Both of them knew how I’d fallen in love with Belfast. They said I might as well stay in Scotland the rest of my life too. I guess that’s my next destination, Scotland!

Before we parted Clera told me about their plans for tomorrow. Unfortunately, I would be on my way to Galway. So we said our goodbyes. In my heart, I hope we will cross each other’s way again.