Our Tromp Through Europe: A night in Belfast...

Last night, as I was checking the train schedules in the lobby of the hostel, the desk clerk walked by on his way to a balcony type area, and showed me a rolled up piece of paper and asked if I wanted to join him. I couldn't resist, so went out on the balcony, he lit the item in question and proceeded to puff again. He passed it to me and once I took a puff, I realized that this wasn't what I thought it was, I "think" I had two puffs of a cigarette, either that or the marijuana here tastes like nicotine. I kindly refused anymore of his smoke, and chatted it up with him till he finished. We went back inside and I finished looking up stuff and posting Eli's blog entry for her. All the while he was playing on his guitar, the likes of Zeppelin and Radiohead, he was actually quite good.

Today was my first experience on one of those big guided tour bus kinda of things, you know, the ones you always see a bunch of old people with cameras on, and you wonder why they don't just explore the area themselves. We really couldn't find a better deal on a whole day of touring, so we gave in for the £20 price and went cruising.

Lesson one for these types of tours: Pictures from the bus are terrible.

The top attraction for this tour was the Giant's Causeway which was quite amazing, the stone pillars that make up this "bridge" are incredible to look at and wonder just how they formed the way the did. The Atlantic ocean runs into shoreline here and makes for some amazing crashing waves against the rocks. The whole area surrounding the causeway it simply beautiful to just gaze upon.