Our trip to Ireland ...
September 2012
Day 13 ... Saturday, September 29
Breakfast at the hotel and then an optional tour to the Antrim
Coast where we visited the Giant's Causeway. This is a
region with towering basalt columns in the ocean formed by
volcanic lava that cooled rapidly over white chalk. It is
named in honor of the legendary giant Finn McCool who supposedly
lived here.
We stopped at Derry on the way back and wandered around on our
own for a few hours. We ate lunch at the Diamond Pub where
they screwed up the order! The Diamond is right in the
center of Derry and is known for good food and service. The
food was quite good ... the service not so! When you go in
here, you take a table and then go to the bar to place your order
and tell them your table number. There is a reasonable
expectation that they will deliver your food to the table you
indicated. David placed our order right before Paul
did. We intercepted the waitress trying to give our food to
the table next to us. After several minutes we had seen two
or three tables around us had been served. One table got the
same order that Paul and Gail had requested. Paul went back
up and asked what was taking so long and was told that their order
was coming right up. It did some out a few minutes later and
was basically what they ordered, with some significant
changes. We think the waitress was new and hadn't quite yet
come to grips with the idea of matching the order with the table
number!
We walked the beach when we got
back to the hotel and then had dinner at the same pub we had been
at the evening before. Paul and Bob both got burgers that
were about the biggest any of us had ever seen.
These photos were taken in County Londonderry, in the city of
Derry and on the road.
on to day 14
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