We've made it around the northern tip of Ireland and have spent the last two nights in Derry (or Londonderry depending on whom you ask - but we were told it would be best to just call it Derry). This is where Bloody Sunday took place in 1972. This is a very old place with an amazing town centre. The old town in known as the 'walled city' and is completely surrounded by a rock wall that is up to 35 plus feet thick in places! We walked around the top of the entire wall and were able to see some amazing things. We also checked out Free Derry, an area in the neighborhood of Bogside where Bloody Sunday occured. There are many murals on the buildings painted by local artists representing the history of 'The Troubles' as they are called here. It was a very crazy feeling walking on the streets we've all seen in the news with barricades and tear gas in the background. A somewhat somber feeling but pretty powerful indeed.
Anyway - we're heading down to Galway on the west coast today. The weather has been a bit wet lately but looks to be be clearing for Easter weekend. The west coast is supposed to be quite dramatic and beautiful - we'll let you know. And hopefully we will someday find a computer somewhere that lets us plug in and upload some of our hundreds of photos... (sorry)...
Running out of time on the this computer... must post. Later everyone!
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