Friday 14th June 2024.
Heavy rain yesterday afternoon deterred us from visiting Bushmills Distillery, as it was dry this morning we made the effort to walk there.
You can have a guided tour of the distillery but you have to book in advance and hope there is a group large enough. We quickly found out that dogs weren’t allowed anywhere on site so whilst Michelle looked after Layla I went in with the express intention of buying a bottle of Bushmills which we have developed a taste for.
I avoided the bottles at £1,975 each and not wishing to look a cheapskate bought the second least expensive bottle, Black Bush.
Bushmills is an alcohol distillery founded in 1784, it uses water drawn from St Columb’s Rill which is a tributary of the River Bush.
After the visit we continued our drive along Causeway Coastal route, again beautiful scenery with some lovely towns en route.but sadly we couldn’t get on the car parks. Eventually we came across a tiny harbour village of Cushendun.
One car park was too narrow to access but thankfully one a few hundred metres out of the village was large enough for us to park, we took the opportunity to have lunch whilst parked up.
We walked along the beach back to the village, as we went along Michelle found a phone just in the water which we rescued, it was still ok but as it is password protected we haven’t been able to contact the owner.
From this village we turned inland and drove through an area of moorland and beautiful river valleys.
As we approached the town we are in tonight Broughshane we took the opportunity to fill up,with LPG at a very good price, as a point of interest the price of fuel here is far less than in England.
The River Braid is running behind us and in the past the car park and adjoining park was the site of a mill. It’s amusing that about 20 metres from us is the vets, later this afternoon during its opening hours farmers were turning up,with trailers containing lambs, ewes, a ram and calves😊
taraabit 