The Glens of Antrim

On a fine Autumn's day, the Desert Rat, the Desert Rat's dad and I headed to County Antrim in Northern Ireland. There is actually a bit of history here - I have tried to see the famous Glens of Antrim for several years but everytime I even suggested that we could go there, the grey skies would appear and either heavy rain and storms would appear or a vast sea fog come in and cover the whole country for several days. It did not matter which season it was - winter or summer so I was pretty excited when we awoke to a clear and sunny day...

Anyway, the first stop was on Islandmagee, to see a dolmen. We actually drove past it at first because it is situated right in front of a house and at a glance looked like a rock feature! However, it was pretty impressive, and I always like a good neolithic archeologic feature!

Next stop was lunch in Carnlough

After a hearty feed, we headed off to the Glenariff Forest Park, which encompasses one of the Glens (called Glenariff, obviously!).

It was a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon, and I was suitably impressed with Glenariff, making the wait to see it worth the while.

Sahara Gal