Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland

This was the one thin, besides Belfast, that I wanted to see really badly in Northern Ireland and we mad it by the skin of our teeth!  I thought we could just pull up, park and walk over and look at it. Not the case! You have to park in a parking lot and pay 8.00pounds each and go into a Visitors Center and then walk 15 minutes to see it. I don't mind walking but like I said we have to be in Belfast at 3pm to turn in the car and make our way to the hotel which I still haven't figured out yet how to catch the shuttle bus from the airport to the hotel which is at the airport! That is another story!

So we followed the signs to the Giant's Causeway to the coast! This is it down in this cove!

The Giant's Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns the result of an ancient volcanic eruption!

That is so dry and boring!

According to Irish Legend, the columns were built by a giant, named Fionn!

Now the story goes that the Irish Giant Fionn MacCumhaill was challenged to a fight by the Scottish Giant Benandonne. Fionn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the North Channel so that the two giants could meet.

Now the Irish aren't sure but they think that Fionn saw the Giant and got scared. So Fionn's wife Una, disguises Fionn as a "baby" and tucks him into a cradle!

So when Benandonner sees the size of the "baby" he reckons that its father, Fionn, is a giant among giants!

He flees back to Scotland in fright!

And destroys the causeway...

So Fionn cannot follow!!!

Isn't that a better and fun story than the real! Oh which one is real?