A 6-day return to Ireland to complete the Wild Atlantic Way.
Bike: Triumph Tiger 900 GT Pro
Drone: DJI Mini 2
Camera: DJI Osmo Action 4
0:00 LondonDerry
01:43 Fort Dunree
04:19 Mamore Gap
05:47 Marlin Head
08:52 Lough Foyle Ferry
11:16 Magilligan Point, NI
12:51 GoT
13:50 GoT
14:47 Belfast, NI
15:36 Titantic Belfast
20:18 Belfast, NI
20:57 T2 Boarding
24:20 Relive
26:10 Liverpool
27:17 Derbyshire Dales & Summary
30:18 Heat Map
30:29 Costs
The plan today is to actually finish the Wild Atlantic Wave. So that means going out of uh out of Derry, London area now, back over the border, back into Ireland, back onto the Wild Atlantic Way, and up to the northerly most part of the island. From there, I’m going to make a plan. We’re either going to go via some Game of Thrones filming locations, or we might go to uh Joey’s bar, Joey Dunham’s bar. Um or we might, depending on time, head straight down to Belfast, where I’ve got tickets for the Titanic Museum, which by all accounts is very good. So, we’re just working our way out of town. As ever in the mornings, it’s a little bit rainy. It seems to have been the uh the order of the day every day. Starts with a little bit of rain and then dries out a little bit. So, we’re here for a flying visit to uh Fort Dunry, which you can see straight ahead. It’s impressive. God, it’s so beautiful around here. Achingly beautiful. I could live here. I really could. Maybe retire here perhaps. [Music] Oh, yes. All right. So, that was a little flying visit to the fort. Few photographs. I haven’t got time to actually go into the museum or anything, but uh if I came back, I reckon that’d be worth a good look. So, I’ve just taken a little shortcut to my next road. And I guess that’s one of the big advantages, isn’t it? coming on the bike rather than in a motor home or something that you can actually take these little back roads with relatively few issues. He says hopefully and you get to see a bit of uh farming life as well, not just the touristy bits. So, this should be taking us to uh a road. It’s just a road that’s been recommended. I think it’s part of the Wild Atlantic Way. Hello, sheep. Thank you. And then that road I think then leads to the most northerly part which I might be wrong. I think it’s Marlin Head, but we’ll find out when we get there. It’s just one of those to-do things. bit like uh doing uh the northern Scotland jobby although I’ve not done uh Lant to Jon so maybe that should be on a tech list as well. North Coast 500. That’s a provisional for next year with Amanda hopefully. Beautiful houses to home. This must be on the right road. Look at this. So this is the Mammore Gap. Germans. Oh my word, that is stupid. I’m sure the camera will level that out, but that is pretty steep. Let’s get first gear drop it. heavily here earlier on. Was it this morning? Yeah. Um, and I seen you pulling up and I went, “Oh, no.” You’ve been driving through the rain. No, I’ve come from uh come from Derry. Oh, London Derry. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it’s not been too bad today. Yeah. Well, I said the rain’s going to stop at um midday. Okay. And uh it’s going to be going to be glowy like But hopefully it’s all right, isn’t it? Hopefully it stays. Yeah. Where have you come from? Belfast. Okay. Just come up from Belfast. We we live obviously live in Belfast. Oh, right. Well, that that’s my final destination later on. Oh, was it? So, I’ve booked some tickets for the Titanic. Everybody says it’s worth going to. Hopefully, it is. Yeah. Yeah. Worth going. Yeah. Um, it’s it’s it’s very it’s very short, is it? But that’s I I can’t remember whether I’ I’ve only ever done it once, but I can’t remember whether they have the we train ride thing on and um it takes you how the Titanic was built. Yeah. You know, through all the steamworks. I mean, it says allow 3 hours, 2 and a half to three hours. So, what it says? Yeah. Yeah. My my fair is tonight at 10:00. So, Oh, is it? Oh, well. Yeah. Yeah. You sailing back to uh back to Liverpool. Liverpool. And then overnight then? Yeah. Yeah. That’s the mostly point. So, I guess this is the most norly port you can drive to, is it? Probably. Yeah, probably. And you’ve got the sign down there where the uh They put this out on big letter so the German planes wouldn’t bomb Ireland. Oh, really? So that’s that’s what Oh wow. Okay. I’ll have a look around. But here nice to talk. Yeah. You too. And safe ride. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Cheers. So that’s another box ticked. Most northerly points of Ireland. Uh chap that I was speaking to basically said uh next stop is Iceland which is quite cool. Uh but he reckoned there was a more northerly part that you could walk to but from a vehicle point of view that is the uh furthest north you can get. So well worth a visit. So, I’m now just keeping an eye on the time, but I’m just going to visit a couple of uh Game of Thrones filming locations. Hopefully, if I can find it. Uh once I’ve done that, we’re then going to head down to Belfast, get parked up, and get ready for the Titanic Museum Tour. This wasn’t in the plan, but uh we’ll go with it. Wouldn’t be a day with me navigating without something going weird, isn’t it? All right. How are you? Not too bad. Not too bad. Single or return? Uh just single, please. So, if I’m over the other side, can I still get to Belfast? You can. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So, yeah, just single then, please. That is 12. How much? 12. Well, I just call this in time. No idea how long it takes, but you know, you got to be flexible. As long as we get down to Belfast about half 2, be okay. Glad it’s not a long crossing. Oh my word. Oh, I don’t like it. Oh dear. Oh my god. There’s water coming on the deck and everything. Oh, right in me eyes. Jesus. That’s close to dropping the bike. Thank you. God for that. Okay, back on track. Okay, so that’s put our time of arrival at Belfast at 25 2, which is pushing it. So this will be a whistle stop tour for sure. So that’s uh looking like a prison. Thought it might be an obs a fire ridge bit further back near the coast. Maybe you’ve got a barracks next to the prison. Don’t know. Let’s have a look on the map when we get back. It reckons we’re 0.2 two miles away from this first film location which is I think just a cliff or a field or something like that. I don’t know if there’ll be anything here to say that it is what it is, but not a problem. Keep on these fields on the cliffs. So, We’re heading for another Game of Thrones location. Think that’s the one straight in front of us, which is the temple. Forget the name of it. I’ll put it on the screen. Not sure how to get to it. Have a look. [Music] So, I did find the uh temple that was used in Game of Thrones. I just wasn’t expecting the mile walk there and back from the actual uh National Trust ticket office. Never mind. Although that has put me behind schedule now a little bit. See, my arrival is now just after 3:00. My ticket for Titanic is at 3:00. So, I’ve also got to find somewhere to park and uh get changed, ditch all the gear. So, I am running a little bit late, which is a shame, but I’m sure it’ll be fine. Thank you. I was in the engine works for a while. Very well equipped. It was. That’s where we built the triple expansion engines. Two of them each as high as a threestory house. I worked in the frame bandage shop. You’d heat steel beans in the furnace, then hook them onto slabs of cast iron and hammer them curved. It was skilled work. You had to bend them more than you need because the frame straightened out a little when it could. One of the four member checked each of it with a special hammer. It made a ringing sound chased out afterward. [Music] I get scared working through that double bottom. You only have candles for light and the constant hammering against the shell plates. You could hear it all over Belfast. Some of those boys ended up stone death. Some did it. We were paid 31 a week. The hear boy in casual 16, but we all worked the same 54 hours. [Music] Okay, don’t [Applause] [Music] [Music] most [Music] Okay, [Music] heat. Got [Music] it. [Music] It is a monstrous great boat. The boat is giant in size and fitted up by I have never seen a ship before. It looked very excitable and the ship is the most luxurious I have been. [Music] Come on. [Music] [Music] I don’t know. I don’t think we’re going through that. So, there’s definitely a some sort of Scottish core drums thing going on. I’m going have to uh have a look on the internet when I stop. The fella down there, mate, with a fluorescent jacket on your team there Just you head straight down to him. Might you clear? Thank you. Just straight up the ramp. Follow the trailer. There’ll be somebody on the top deck. Heat. Heat. Thank you. Heat. Heat. Thank you. Okay, got to show you this cuz I’m genuinely excited, sadly excited. Little room out to the dock. All the stuff charging. Little bed. Three more beds. TV. Working TV. Shelving. Bit of wardrobe space. It’s generally better than the B&B I was in last night. And a bathroom. Hello. And a shower. Spot on. Anyway, time to get organized. And going to have a beer. [Music] [Music] [Music] Good sailing that. Really good sailing. Slept like a baby. Big boats in today. 32 miles to get home. It’s not too bad. Looks like we are straight out with no checks. Find somewhere to put my gloves on then. Okay. So, as we’ve uh just entered the Dish Dales, I’m going to attempt to do a little summary of the trip. Uh it is early, so bear with me. So, the W Atlantic Way, I did the bottom half last year, 2024, and I’ve done the top half of it to complete it this year. What’s worked? Well, the Peris from both ways, Dublin, uh, Hollywood to Dublin and Belfast to Liverpool. Really, really good. Uh all the B&Bs bar one really really good. So the one in London Derry didn’t work out quite as id hoped. Wasn’t that great. Uh the wide Atlantic way itself then um the scenery absolutely stunning. What a beautiful country and the roots obviously the coastal route is just epic. The scenery just keeps on giving. roads well much much much better condition than ours over here in England. Um I’d say 90% of the roads that I traveled on were really really good surfaces. Um and they seem seem to be looked after as well. There’s lots of new tarmac and stuff going on. That’s all good. Uh how far have I traveled then? for 1,185 mi so far with 17 to go. And that’s 31 hours in the saddle. That’s in 7 days. So, quite a lot of riding. Very tired and very a little bit achy, but it’s been tremendous. Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Um, if you had a bit more time, I guess you could do it all in in one go. There’s so much to see, so much to visit. You’ll never get it all all in. But just pick the bits that you want to do and go for it. I’d say the trip’s worked out pretty well for me. I’ve seen probably 90% of what I wanted to see on the trip, which is good. So, yeah, highly recommended. Um, go home and find out how much it will cost in a bit. So, yeah. Uh, country is beautiful, people are so friendly. You don’t really feel like you’re out there on your own. Sometimes, you know, people will come just talking to you in petrol stations or in the pub. Really, really friendly uh people on the whole, very hospitable. And I think the whole trip’s been uh been a success. So, I’m going to get home and uh start planning the next one. So, hope you’ve enjoyed it. Thanks uh for watching if you have done and uh I’ll see you on the next one. This is me signing off. Bye. [Music] [Music]