Tagged With "Giant's Causeway"

Wonderful photo's of a beautiful part of the world.

Brings back many great memories! The Giant's Causeway is truly spectacular.

Yeah it really is a beautiful part of the world. If you get a chance, try and get to Clare's Cliff's of Moher. Also unspoiled and breath taking!

Hello fifitrix 100. Welcome to TravelGumbo and thanks for your comment. We have yet to find a place in Ireland we don't like! And the Cliffs of Moher are truly spectacular. Our write-up on them is at this link if you're interested

Do the modern Canadian folks still use the original names that the indigenous people used for local places ?

Sometimes we do, Garry. Like Lake Minnewanka, Kakabeka falls, and so on. But more often Anglicized names are used, or translation of native names into English (eg. "Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump"). What say you, Ottoman?

I've been to a few places where the aboriginal people have been pushed aside for the Concrete Jungle of Western or Anglicised living. I do feel a touch guilty - but ......

Hi Garry RF and DrFumblefinger. Thanks for you interest on today's pic of the day...the Sleeping Giant. Garry, in Northwestern Ontario (and many other areas of Canada), aboriginal names are used quite commonly. In Thunder Bay, many medical clinics, schools, recreational centers, and so on have an aboriginal name, not to mention the many towns and landmarks in the area that also have aboriginal names. A major piece of Northwestern Ontario's history involves the fur trade (which of course the...

Passing through Towns in Australia and North America (incl. Canada) I like to stop off and take a few photo's of places that have been named after places in the UK. In Chester PA. I was asked "Do you have a Chester too?" - " Yes and a Jersey, York, Boston, Washington, Dover, Bethesda, Birmingham and a few more " Didn't know you had a Fort William until I was watching a "Who Do You Think You Are" TV show recently. A female Celebrity was tracking her ancestral trail from the UK.

    I recently came back from a 3 day trip to Northern Ireland, and loved it. The weather was unusually sunny (but very cold) while I explored one of the most beautiful coastlines in Europe.     Northern Ireland has become quite...

DrFumblefinger walks among the giant trees of Sequoia National Park. The sequoias are the most massive living things on the planet.

The happy moment turned out to be double as videos revealed that Yang Yang had given birth to two baby pandas.

While in Vienna, Samantha and her husband spent a few hours checking out Austria's playground, the Prater. The giant Ferris Wheel is the draw to the park, but there is so much to see and do.

 Thunder Bay's 50 million ton city mascot is known as the Sleeping Giant, the panoramic Sibley Peninsula, a formation of mesas and sills that juts out on Lake Superior and forms the body of water that is Thunder Bay. When viewed from the City,...

Galveston's Moody Gardens has a beauty that both attracts and repels: it's a Giant Corpse Flower with a terrible smell that gave it its name.

The inscription on the memorial translates as The Master dedicated one of his most beautiful songs to the Vienna Prater, In the Prater, the Flowers Bloom Again.

Gumbo was visiting the largest grove of Sequoia trees in Yosemite National Parks. Sequoias are the largest living things on the planet.

DrFumblefinger visits a statue of the Jolly Green Giant in the small prairie town of Blue Earth.

DrFumblefinger visits the Whispering Giant, a cedar wood-carving in Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba.

Good thing that the Giant is not incontinent!

On a cross-country drive, several years ago, my wifenand I ate lunch right under the Giant.

How can you resist visiting a geologic formation created by giants?  I couldn't!  Situated on a five mile stretch of Northern Ireland's rugged Antrim coast, the Giant’s Causeway is well worth going out of your way to see.  In...

Samantha shares pictures of the Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota while on a recent trip through the Mid-West.

My wife and I ate lunch in the shadow of the Jolly Green Giant in Blue Earth.

Set realistic expectations. This is a cute statue of a giant green man. As a retro type of road trip roadside attraction it is excellent! You are provided a ladder to climb up to the Jolly Giant feet

Went there last December. It was awesome!