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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
... of stone that look so orderly. It was freezing and we were being blown away so we retreated to the car and headed on.
Our next stop was Londonderry (Derry). We arrived late at night and thought we’d try and see if they had a place available at a B&B in Bogside (the Catholic area at the heart of troubles during many of the riots). No such luck so we relied on our GPS to take us to a nearby hotel where we were happy to shower and hop into nice double ...
Day 9
No Internet last night so I didn't send a blog. We arrived in Belfast at about 1900. Then had a tour of the city. Very interesting place. The guide was insistent that the 'troubles' where over but they had their 3rd night of riots last night and the city is divided by high fences with razor wire on top with one side catholic and the other side Protestant. As we travelled north ...
5th Travel Post – Londonderry, North Ireland
... for several days. Later part of the Spanish fleet was blown into the North Sea by a storm, and when attempting to return to Spain around Scotland on ship ran aground off the Donegal coast of Ireland in September 1588. The exhibition follows on by telling the story of how the wreck of the ship La Trinidad Valencera was discovered nearly 400 years later by divers from the City of Derry diving club. Displays include how artifacts were ...