The Giant’s Causeway is an odd and amazing geographic phenomenon on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It’s not actually convenient to much of anything and we ended up deciding to take an express tour bus there rather than do the more inclusive transit bus route but have to risk a transfer and lost even more hours to travel.
So what’s this phenomenon? Volcanic rock cooled and split into fairly regularly shaped hexagons over a noteworthy portion of the beach. Put a bit more floridly, if Celtic legends play tactical RPGs with the world, they do so on hexes. I’ve never seen anything like it and am grateful I had the chance to see it here. I may well show this gratitude via a silly incredibly brief clip we filmed made but won’t finish editing until after the honeymoon.
On the trip back there’s a few shots of the nearby village decked out in flags. That’s a result of Northern Ireland’s marching season and show that the houses in question feels strongly aligned with the UK. The final shots are of the Linen Library off the main square in Belfast. I picked up a great book there called Troubled Images based off the library’s collection of propaganda materials used by all sides during the Northern Ireland conflict. More on that to come in the next entry with our tour of Belfast.
I thought of you guys just now - Hellboy 2 is on and they're about to go to the Giants' Causeway :)
Posted by: Laura | July 16, 2009 at 12:56 AM