Today was an early start to cross the ferry to Ireland. It was smooth
as a mill pond. The island offshore has a legend.
When giants inhabited the world, the Irish giant Finn McCool would hurl
challenges across the Irish Sea to the Scottish giant. Eventually the Scottish
giant built a causeway across the sea. The giant’s wife saw him coming
unfortunately her giant husband was drunk and the Scottish giant was twice his
size. Quick thinking she gave her husband another beer with something to make
him sleep. She then dressed him in a nappy. When the Scottish giant arrived he wanted
to fight him but she said that he was out in the fields but would be back. She
invited him in and when he saw the huge baby he decided to leave fearing the
size of the father and destroyed the causeway behind him. When Finn awoke he
angrily threw a rock towards the Scottish giant and this explains the rock
where it is.
A highlight of the trip so far as it seems, is visiting the Giant’s
Causeway. It was raining lightly on the way in but stopped when we arrived. It
was a little breezy but really wonderful, I would hate to come in summer. It was much more extensive area of landform
than the small part that we saw.
Some of the Londonderry road signs are defaced with the London blacked
out. Catholics call it Derry, Protestants – Londonderry.
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