Next we headed to the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge for some more scenery (and of course a short walk over the rope bridge to an island off the cliffs).
Around this point I started feeling pretty sick. I'm not sure if it was a delayed hangover or just too much time in the rain or in a bad position on the bus, but I've had a pretty upset stomach and been incredibly achey all day since. I skipped eating for lunch, and struggled through a black-taxi tour of Belfast when we got there. The tour focused again on a lot of the political troubles in Northern Ireland and we visited some of the former hotbeds of trouble and got a lot of history.
We then went out for a group dinner at a local pub that took until 10:30 or so. I definitely wasn't feeling up to going out again by this point so I'm just relaxing in the hostel and hopefully will get more sleep tonight and feel better tomorrow.
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Those columns make for very strange landscape. I've never seen nature so square.
Most of them are hexagonal actually, which is even more odd. From what I gathered they were formed by the quick cooling of a volcanic plateau.
Neat, do you recall what mineral they're made up of?
Basalt, as stated in the original post.
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