The Full Irish Breakfast

A Full Irish Breakfast is very hearty and delicious. It can often sustain you the whole day. This meal usually consists of eggs, rashers (bacon), bangers (sausage), baked fresh tomatoes, fresh mushrooms, white pudding, black pudding, fresh fruit, brown bread, or toast, or scones, with a bit of butter and marmalade. Add a bit of juice, a pot of tea or freshly brewed coffee with cream and a bit of brown sugar and you truly have a meal. In Northern Ireland, the fully cooked breakfast is called an ‘Ulster Fry’ and includes the addition of a fried potato farl. Did…

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The Giant’s Causeway

Formed over the last 61 million years or so, The Giant’s Causeway is an amazing place. The story goes that the Giant Fin MacCool laid the Causeway so that he would have a road to his true love who lived on the island of Staffa in Scotland, where there are similar stones. Like Loch Ness and Stonehenge, this is one of those places that just calls to me. But unlike Stonehenge and Loch Ness, I have yet to make it to the Giant’s Causeway. The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns resulting from a volcanic…

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