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At last - we got to see the Giant's Causeway
... of the inner walled part of the city that dates back to 1600's. Most of the tour information focused on the recent troubles - 1967 to 1980's. Most of the information has already left my brain but made such good sense at the time. We bought a DVD of the tour so I can get refreshed about what caused all of those terrible times.
Then we drove to Bushmills, a small town on the north coast just east of Derry. We drove out to ...
Wow - imagine being here !!!
Yesterday we drove from Dublin to Dunfanaghy which is in northern Donegal. It was a long drive but we stopped on the way at the Belleek pottery centre and saw some of the work there and some of the historic pieces on display. We also watched a video on how they make this pottery. Thanks to Laura for telling me about Belleek - I hadn't known about it before. We also stopped at a place ...
Derry
We spent two days here in Derry, Northern Ireland. Back to using pounds as currency so the exchange rate is rough but the price of things seem a wee bit less than when on the euro. Tje giants causeway was cool but it was a freezing windy raining day as well so we didnt stay out as long as we would have, by the end i was almost jogging. The ditillary was interesting andI was assuming we ...
Day 10 - Derry to Omagh
... the wall into Bogside ‘Free Derry’ area and looked at some of the murals and visited the Free Derry Museum. The museum was eerie, listening to the soundtrack of the screams, shouting, gunfire, explosions and mothers crying from Bloody Sunday.
(Two days after we left Derry, they located two bombs near the council building including one in an area we’d walked right past days before.)
We'd decided to head to Connemara area of Ireland ...
Day 9 - Northern Ireland Coast
... 90 miles per hour limit listed along these narrow winding roads as I fancied arriving in one piece at our destination! On one corner, the rock wall encroached into both lanes making the road one car width. Instead of creating the lines up to a certain point then having give way signs they simply continued to run the center line along the road, I wish I'd taken a photo!
We continued along the coast and just before 4pm we reached Carrick-a-Rede, a rope bridge ...