Of Crazy Pavers and Icicles

We have been up to the giants causeway. Looks to me like Jamie Durey and his team went nuts with the pavers and concrete columns. Bitterly cold as usual, it got up to about 5 degrees with that gentle breeze of 50km/h again. My nose running and freezing horizontally. We also visited the famous rope bridge of Crooked knee (or something like that). And as per usually it had been taken down for the winter!!! Must have needed a wash or something. We have been past stone forts, dolmens, forests and farms all closed for the winter. It is starting to get me down a bit actually. How can a stone fort need to close for winter. More likely the fool collecting the fee at the gate wouldn’t work in the cold and so they closed it instead of letting people in for free.
Speaking of free. The parking laws in this country are likely to kill me. They double and triple park for the hell of it. They also park in any direction and on any side of the road that they want even if it is only a single lane "freeway". They just nick across in front of you as you are driving and then stop in front of you!!?? Everyone but the Aussies think this normal and you should just drive around, OF COURSE silly me. Also if you can’t see a space just stop wherever you want. I have not been able to get into a servo because some fool had stopped dead in the middle of the forecourt drive in!!??
The father and I also visited the Bushmill’s distillery. The have been making hooch here since 1608 (not a mistype), and apparently the monks have been doing it here since 1300. Those monks have a lot to answer for. Everywhere we have been the monks have distilled or fermented everything to see if they could get pissed on it. Must have been cold in a cassock and no undies. On the way home the car started making an alarm and it took us a little to find what it was the external temperature had dropped below 3 degrees.
That night it went well below freezing and but all we could think about was to go and write our names in something. TOURISTS. The only difference between frost in Ireland and Australia is that in Ireland it never goes away all these photos were taken after 1pm. Need some of that Bushmills now.