UK: Northern Ireland – Giant’s Causeway

The Giant's Causeway gained its name due to the Irish myth surrounding its formation. Most likely because of the Causeway's uniform and unusual shape, the people of Ancient Ireland created a fable to understand how the Causeway was created. As lava cools, cracks within the material grow most efficiently at certain angles. In many places worldwide, such as Devils Tower in Wyoming and the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland (image), ancient lavas cooled into hexagonal blocks or columns. It is 2 miles (3km) from Bushmills village, 11 miles (18km) from Coleraine and 13 miles (21km) from Ballycastle.

🙂 Spectacular

The Giants Causeway comprises around 40,000 thousands of mostly hexagonal basalt columns descending gently into the sea. Depending on who you believe, the stones were formed either by an underwater volcano’s geological actions or by a giant named Finn McCool, who lived and battled along the north Antrim Coast. By good fortune we got there for sunset. DIVINE.

We stayed in a lovely hotel called the Bushmill’s Inn, located bear to Giant’s Causeway. It is quite funny as we entered at the pub side in error and the entire pub of Locals went quiet and stared at us …until the barman in a thick Irish accent suggested that we may wish to use the hotel entrance! LOL. The food was excellent.

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