This trip also includes a stop at the Burren, a Special Area of Conservation. This is more a facts and figures place, it’s just that kind of a landscape. It is a bare, barren rocky place that’s the translation of Burren. On first glance that’s what it appears to be. A lunar landscape almost. Just land of exposed limestone rock, sweeping out in long beds known as ‘clints’. In between these beds are narrow, deep gullys called ‘grykes’. These grykes often have grass growing inside them, disguising their depth – so be careful.

On strolling for a few minutes over these clints, you will begin to notice little flowers poking their heads up here and there. Unusual flowers. Some of these flowers appear in the tundra of Siberia, and others hale from the Mediterranean.  Mystery surrounds the exact way these often sweet smelling buds reached the Burren. All we know is that they grow side by side, sometimes curling around one another in this barren landscape. This is thanks to the unique limestone pavement, providing a lime-rich soil while also holding onto the suns heat like a huge thermal blanket. Limestone absorbs heat over the day, long summer days in Ireland’s northern latitude, radiating it overnight and generally staying cozy for months on end.

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