点评:Its quite a trek just to get to Ballycastle to enjoy the ferry and the island but there’s a but, but it’s a good but, as these days if you go to visit the Dark Hedges (Game of Thrones) you are about 15 driving minutes away from Ballycastle.
This is where you can, as a song says, get dulce (delicious edible seaweed, real umami savouriness) and yellow man (like a failed honeycomb cinder style toffee and delicious). My mother used to buy rock at the beach in Omeath in the Irish Republic; it was then yellow leg shaped and called Peggy’s leg. I recall although a boiled confection it’s tasted similar to yellow man.
The Rathlin ferry (or the one out of two that we were on) is old, minimally staffed, functional with only the basics: a toilet and a place for baby change. It might hold 4/5 small cars at a squeeze but they do restrict vehicles usually only for island inhabitants or work vans.
Their other ferry is foot passengers only apparently smaller and faster. Theres lots of parking around the harbour area.
It took 40 minutes to traverse and rock over the sea and the views are stunning. You’ll not get tea or coffee or food with the crossing itself great value for money.
Reservations are done on-line, it’s easy and checked dockside (Adult £16 return) if you are an NI resident with an over 60 travel card it’s free.
We sat outside going to Rathlin Island (population 75) and as the weather had turned inside on return. Glad we did it on a calmish day.
We might even return one day.
There was only one disappointment for me as Wysner’s Butchers of Ballycastle is closed. The late Mr W was German. He made wonderful sausages and added Bushmills whiskey to his black pudding and they sure don’t make them like that anymore.
翻译:前往巴利卡斯尔 (Ballycastle) 享受渡轮和岛屿的旅程相当漫长,但有一个但是,但这是一个好的但是,因为现在如果你去参观黑暗树篱 (权力的游戏),你距离巴利卡斯尔大约 15 分钟车程。
在这里,你可以像一首歌里唱的那样,买到杜尔塞 (dulce)(美味的食用海藻,真正的鲜味)和黄人 (yellow man)(像失败的蜂窝状煤渣太妃糖,美味可口)。我母亲过去常在爱尔兰共和国奥米斯 (Omeath) 的海滩买石头;当时它是黄色的腿形,被称为佩吉的腿。我记得虽然是煮熟的糖果,但味道和黄人很像。
拉斯林渡轮 (或我们乘坐的两艘渡轮中的一艘) 很旧,工作人员很少,只有基本设施:厕所和婴儿换尿布的地方。它可能最多能容纳 4/5 辆小型汽车,但通常只限岛上居民或工作车使用。
他们的另一艘渡轮只限步行乘客,但显然体型更小、速度更快。港口周围有很多停车位。
横渡大海需要 40 分钟,景色令人惊叹。渡海期间不会提供茶、咖啡或食物,但物有所值。
预订是在线进行的,很简单,可以在码头边办理(成人往返 16 英镑),如果您是持有 60 岁以上旅行卡的北爱尔兰居民,则免费。
我们坐在外面去拉斯林岛(人口 75 人),回来时天气转好了。很高兴我们在一个平静的日子做了这件事。
我们甚至可能有一天会回来。
只有一件事让我失望,那就是巴利卡斯尔的 Wysner’s Butchers 关门了。已故的 W 先生是德国人。他制作了美味的香肠,并在黑布丁中添加了布什米尔威士忌,现在他们肯定不会再制作这样的香肠了。