Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Tombstones or Cemeteries
From two of the most beautiful cemeteries I have walked. Here Warsaw, the Jewish Cemetery and in the header, Père Lachaise, Paris.
Travel
Giant’s Causeway – The Loveliest Day
Soaking wet after the dog walk tonight, I desperately long for a lost summer. When in Ireland (a rainy country they say…) this May, we had sunshine, 20 degrees C and no wind on the north coast. I just have to go back for the photos…think I will show you just How…lucky we were, and what a glorious day we had at Giant’s Causeway. Our landlord told us the weather had not been this beautiful any day this year, 2017.
The walking distance makes this trip a half day tour, but in full sun, everything is just amazing and you can walk any distance… There was even the possibility, for elderly or disabled people, of using a van.
The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. (Although legend has it built by the Irish Giant Fionn…)It is located in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland.
The area was declared a World heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986. According to Wikipedia, there was a poll in 2005, where Radio Times’ readers voted the Giant’s Causeway as the fourth greatest natural wonder in UK.
Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven or eight sides.
…and flowers grow between the terraced pillars
The little pools make the area more alive…
Excellent playground – if you are careful…
…and bring granddad!
The Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast World Heritage Site is today one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northern Ireland. Read about the legend of the two fighting giants from Ireland and Scotland, and the building of the Causeway, here.
WPC: Textures
WordPress – textures this week. How about one mostly natural and the other manmade…
The same…but different…
Thursday’s Special: Slow
Paula, at Lost in Translation, asks us to post on something slow…This giant from Galápagos is…certainly slow, but awe- inspiring in so many ways.
Travel theme: Heat
If you could send some warm days over here it would be nice…but the Heat from me to Ailsa is staying in Rotorua, New Zealand.
Travel theme: Tidy
Gdansk harbour – tidy it is. I guess a harbour has to be – otherwise chaos would be upon us. I only wish my desk was as tidy …
Kilmacduagh
The stunning Kilmacduagh monastery was founded by St Colman in the 7thCentury.
I loved everything about it – the serenity, the silence, the rural beauty of the area.
The round tower is dated from the 12th Century, and the tallest one in Ireland – Kilmacduagh is 34 meters in height with the doorway set 7 meters above ground level.
The tower also has quite a visible lean to it – said to be 0.5 meter from the vertical.
The biggest church building on the site is the cathedral ( Templemore Mac Duagh). dated between the 11th and 12th Century.
The Church of St John the Baptist (Teampuill Owen) is in the field next to the cathedral.
It dates from the 10th Century which would make this church the oldest building on the site.
The cemetary is still in use, and I do not think I have ever seen a thicker stone wall than this one.
Impressive!
On leaving, we finally got a closer look at the lovely cows – and they finally got a closer look at us…
Early Morning Kilkenny
We woke up early to take a morning walk in Old Town Kilkenny before breakfast. Kilkenny is one of Ireland’s most beautiful towns, and has been of importance since the 13th century – it was even the capital of Ireland a long time ago.
Eight degrees only, but silence and sunshine. A very pleasant walk.
Warning – slippery because of the butter maker’s
Kilkenny Castle, 12th C
Titanic – Cobh, Ireland
A windy and rainy day, we visited Cobh. Somehow the weather seemed appropriate.
The little seaside town of Cobh, with 13 000 inhabitants, has got one of the world’s largest natural harbours. Cobh was the place where most of the Irish emigrants left for America during the great starvation 1844-48. More than 1 million people died when the potato harvest failed (mildew) and by 1856 2 ½ million people had left Ireland for America. Not until 1930 did the Irish stop leaving the country – due to the Wall Street crash.
Cobh was the last stop for Titanic before her Maiden voyage across the Atlantic. Titanic entered Cobh harbour April 11, 1912. 120 passengers had bought their tickets there – hoping for a new and better life overseas. April 15 she went down after hitting an iceberg. I guess everyone knows she was a White Star Line ship.
Today there is a museum where the White Star Line’s terminal was. Down in the harbour there are mosaic tablets with memorials of those who embarked from Cobh that day. Even if we all know the story…this is a very special place to visit.
Travel theme: Abroad
Abroad means many things to me…but if I were to choose only one thing – it is Freedom.
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