Hannah's Trip to the Causeway

One Day at Giant’s Causeway

  By Hannah Caspers

I woke up and looked out of my window – rain!

First I was not really happy about going out with this weather…

but I had no choice, the others would be waiting for me.

So I took my warm tights, my jeans, 2 Shirts and a warm pullover and of course my winterjacket and an umbrella.

Then I went to catch the bus and met the others at the Foyle Language School.

We took the bus (a little one with 14 seats) and started our trip to Giant’s Causeway.

In the bus were one Chinese Girl, which is here for one year, me and 5 other Germans, two Spanish girls and two French. Plus Francesca, one of Foyle Language school and of course the bus driver.

It took about an hour to go AND actually we drove into some wonderful sunshine :D

Our first stop was at the Dunluce Castle.

We had one hour there to go around.

It was gorgeous! The sun was shining and it was sooo beautiful J

The castle is situated on the coast and the water is so bright!

We climbed up at the singular ruins and had a wonderful view over the sea and the coast and the wide landscape.

After the Dunluce castle we drove to Giant’s Causeway.

The Giant's Causeway (known as Clochán an Aifir in Irish) is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. It is located in County Antrim on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, about three miles (4.8 km) northeast of the town of Bushmills. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides. The tallest are about 12 metres high, it’s very impressive!

It’s known, that the Causeway is build up naturally but there is still a legend about the appearance!

The legend tells, that the Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish counterpart Benandonner. Fionn had spent many days and nights trying to create a bridge to Scotland because he had challenged another giant. Fionn told his wife and she came up with an ingenious plan to dress Fionn like a baby. They spent many nights creating a costume and bed. When the opponent came to Fionn's house, his wife told him that Fionn was out woodcutting and Benandonner would have to wait for him to return. Then Fionn's wife showed him her baby and when Benandonner saw the size of the 'infant', he assumed the alleged father, Fionn, must be gigantic indeed. Therefore, Benandonner fled home in terror, ripping up the Causeway in case he was followed by Fionn.