Rockhaven House
Travel Blogs from Dunfanaghy
Wow - imagine being here !!!
... sell woollen goods - some of the famous Donegal tweed.
Today we left Dunfanaghy for my meeting at Letterkenny with the Jigsaw agency there. That is one of the amazing mental health stories that I will bring home.
Tonight we are staying in Derry, Northern Ireland in a Georgian merchant's house with a room in the servants' quarters. It is very quaint (but small). We ...
Derry
... getting shots of various whiskey ages as we went, but instead it was only a single at the end. Paid 10£ to try a shot of 21 year old, as expected it was good, but I wont be spending 125£ on a bottle of it anytime soon. Somehow we dodged all the bus imes too ended up not making it back to the b&b until fairly late, cold and soaked. So no going out tonight for me, just a long sleep.
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Day 9 - Northern Ireland Coast
... from Torr Road were AMAZING! Driving these roads was somewhat scary at times, narrowing down to one lane with little vision around corners! Road markings seemed to be only a guide as were the speed limits in both the UK and Ireland! This day we also realized that the speed limit in Northern Ireland went back to miles per hour as opposed to the kilometers per hour that was listed on our cars speedo. Luckily the GPS had the speed limits in mph although I wasn't going to ...
Day 9
... green name) or Derry (orange name). Again we r told the Troubles are over but they still call the city by different names depending on religion so I am not sure the Troubles really are over. From there we moved further down the coast to Beleek Pottery. Google it. Really beautiful fine bone china. We had a tour of the factory and watched the artisans make very fine and ...
Ireland
... and Kim and Dennis's mom. Who live next door. We had some dinner and jimmy drove us to the local pub Sharkys. Had a few Guinness and watched pat play some music. It was a day after party for a wedding so the place was pretty full. Monday. Dennis called in sick today and him Margret Dennis's mom and I went for a drive. We drove all day. Checked out the countryside and beaches and cliffs. Stopped at at fishing area and grabbed some fish and chips. We checked out the big surf spots. ...