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<\/a><\/p>\nThe drive up the coast was fabulous.\u00a0 We had a cold, sunny day and the views got better around every turn.\u00a0 See Bret’s pictures from the trip<\/a>.\u00a0 We arrived at our destination, Finn MacCool’s<\/a> right as the weather starting turning back to rainy.\u00a0 Finn MacCool’s is a wee family run pub and guest house.\u00a0 We loved it there.<\/p>\n The Giant’s Causeway<\/p>\n The Giant’s causeway is this 300m stretch of the coast where the rocks look like stacked beehives (Does anyone remember the video game Qbert?) Legend has it, the Giant’s Causeway was built by the giant, Finn MacCool, so he could battle with a Scottish giant, Cuhullin.\u00a0 After building the causeway\u00a0 from Ireland to Scotland, Finn MacCool realized that Cuhullin was much larger than him, so he ran home to his wife, Oona (loosing his shoe in his rush to get home).\u00a0 Oona hid Finn MacCool in a giant cradle.\u00a0 When Cuhullin came to fight Finn MacCool, Oona invited him into the home and showed off their baby,\u00a0 Cuhullin saw the size and strength of the “baby” and was scared back to Scotland.\u00a0 He destroyed most of the causeway during his flight.\u00a0 Leaving only a small stretch on each side:\u00a0 The giant’s causeway in Northern Ireland and Fingal’s cave in Scotland.\u00a0 Of course, there seem to be as many variations to that story as there are basalt columns.<\/p>\n I loved this place…\u00a0 could have stayed there all day if it had been a little warmer and less windy.<\/p>\n After we had explored the causeway, we hiked around into the next cove. Passed more cool rocks:<\/p>\n Around the bend, we could see the Chimney Rocks (The chimney to Finn MacCool’s house).<\/p>\n It looked like there once was a path all the way around.<\/p>\n but it was closed off because of a giant landslide.<\/p>\n So, we turned around and made our way (across a much smaller landslide) back to the entrance via the upper route. An aerial view of the causeway ( that is as close as I get to cliff edges).<\/p>\n The weather was turning a little colder and wetter, so we made one more stop at Dunluce Castle before grabbing some lunch and heading to the Bushmill’s Whiskey Distillery. <\/p>\n This distillery got its license to distill “great quantities of aquavite, usquabagh and aqua composita,” under King James I back in 1608!\u00a0 It had probably been brewing whiskey long before then, however.\u00a0 They have made whiskey under the Bushmill’s label since the late 1700s.\u00a0 We enjoyed the tour and the complimentary whiskey at the end.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n