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Antrim Coast Weekend Break, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Giants Causway
The Causeway Coaster bus service runs from the visitor centre to the Grand Causeway throughout the year. The route, though steep, can also be walked. The wider Causeway area offers excellent opportunities for keen walkers. The Causeway Coast Path extends east for some 12 miles to the famous Carrick-a-rede Rope Bridge. Interpretative panels along the route provide information about the history, mythology and scientific interest of the area.

How to get to the Giants Causeway
Train: Service from Belfast or Londonderry to Coleraine
Bus: Causeway Rambler (Ulsterbus no 376) between Bushmills & Carrick-a-Rede runs in the summer; or Ulsterbus no 252 is a circular route via the Antrim Glens from Belfast. Both stop at the Causeway.
Cycle: NCN route 93 runs past Causeway
Car: on B146, 2ml from Bushmills. Drive time: Belfast 1 hr 15 mins

The Spanish Armada navigators did not take into account the affect of the warm Gulf Stream that passes the Irish coast at speed. They had sailed past the top of Scotland and were trying to make their way back to Spain. They sailed out into the Atlantic ocean for what they thought was the correct amount of distance before changing course south so as to miss the Irish coast. This is where they went wrong. Have you ever tried to walk up a down escalator or walk along a moving walkway in an airport the wrong way?

You go not go very far. You stay in the same place unless you drastically increase your speed. This is the same effect that the Gulf Stream had on these Spanish warships. They thought they were about 300miles west into the Atlantic ocean when in fact they were only about 100 miles. When they changed their direction south they smashed into the rocky coast of Ireland rather than passing it. A number of Spanish warships were wrecked along the coast near the Giants Causeway in 1588.

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