We were excited to visit the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland! It's an amazing geologic formation of 40,000 hexagonal basalt columns. It's difficult to describe how bizarre and amazing it was! The scientific explanation involves volcanic eruptions 50 million years ago, but the Irish legend is much more interesting.
The Irish legend of the Giants Causeway involves 2 giants separated by the causeway, Irish giant Finn McCool and Scottish giant Benandonner. Apparently Finn saw Benandonner's size and was too intimidated to go through with their scheduled fight, so his wife disguised him as a baby and when Benandonner arrived he judged that a baby so large would have a father way too big to fight, so he fled back to Scotland on the Causeway, tearing it up as he went so Finn McCool couldn't follow him. What country embraces a hero who's too afraid to fight? And who dresses up like a baby? Hilarious!
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So very jealous of your getting to go to Ireland. My ancestors come from Carrickfergus and it is my hope & dream to visit someday. I've been in love with Ireland for as long as I can remember. Some day....... :-)
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