Ireland

A few weeks ago school ended for us in Germany and we began a series of many adventures in different countries. We said goodbye to many great new friends and headed out to see some more of this beautiful world.

Our first stop was Dublin, Ireland. We were able to travel with our awesome friend, Max. We stayed in a hostel in the Temple Bar area of Dublin and we traveled down to Belfast for a few days to see the coast of Northern Ireland.

We took a tour for a day to see the coast and visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Giant's Causeway, along with other spectacular places along the coast of Northern Ireland.

The scenery was beautiful and we enjoyed adventuring through the coastal hills and cliffs. What a spectacular place!

The Giant's Causeway is a volcanic rock formation with hundreds of unique basalt rock columns. There is an old legend about how the Causeway was formed, where Finn the giant builds a Causeway over to Scotland only to discover that an even bigger giant lives there. When the giant from Scotland comes across the Causeway to see who was trying to steal his kingdom, Finn tricks him by dressing up as a baby. The Scottish giant is afraid believing that a full grown giant must be even bigger than the giant baby, and he runs back across the Causeway, ripping it up as he goes. The stones you see is all that's left of the Causeway.

Jordan and Max were setting the pace. I was just trying to keep up with them.

My favourite part about the whole experience was the gorgeous setting. We loved the grassy cliffs and hills next to the misty ocean water.

We have been traveling all over the place and have many more photos and stories to share. Now we find ourselves in England visiting our dear friends Tanis and Josh. Soon enough we will be back at home with all of our travel adventures behind us. But we are looking forward to it. Even with all the great things we've been able to do and places we've been able to see, it will be nice to finally be home again.

Jennifer and Jordan