Better late than never . . . Belfast Part II!

After visiting Dunluce, our next stop was the incredible Giant's Causeway. The Irish like to refer to the Causeway as "the eighth natural wonder of the world." Formed as a result of a volcanic eruption, Irish legend has it that the Causeway was created when the Scottish giant Benandonner fled Ireland and his Irish counterpart Finn McCool who, with the help of his wife, tricked Benandonner into thinking he was much bigger than he actually was. Believe what you will, but the causeway is really an amazing site to behold. It resembles in many ways a giant game of Jenga turned on it's side - with random slices of rock sticking out much further than others.

After finishing up our bus tour and returning to Belfast, we walked around the city some more. We got dinner at a fun local restaurant. After dinner, we visited a beautiful Christmas market that was being held in town. I got a crepe with Nutella, naturally. Tired from our long day of sightseeing, we headed back to the hotel and watched, interestingly enough, a documentary on the Obama campaign for presidency in 2008. Good stuff. After that, it was off to bed and up the next morning and back on a bus for 6 hours to return home to Cork.

Picture 1 - All of us girls with my new idol - Tim. He works for IFSA in Ireland and is extremely legit. He invented, to put in in his own words, "some thing which connects to telephone lines all over Europe." Like I said - legit.

Picture 2 - Giant's Causeway - truly incredible.

Picture 3 - Suz and myself (notice the Causeway behind us).

Picture 4 - Again . . . at the Christmas market in Belfast.

Picture 5 - Myself plus a giant Christmas tree in Belfast. Tis CHRISTMAS!

"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." - Miriam Beard