Derry day 2
Mary and I started the day with a hike in a bit of drizzle and autumn cold to see the Free Derry murals.
Then we returned to the Airbnb to check out since I had unwisely canceled my second night there. But there is lots to do in Derry and after a night of noise from a two year old in the room above ours and a lot of traffic noise ten feet away, I was okay switching.
We had lunch at a really cute place, the Cottage Coffee Shop, with the best scones I have had so far in my trip!
We walked the walls of the city once again and went shopping for a new pair of jeans for me since I seem to have lost mine. We went to a big store called Primark which Mary called Penny's. All the jeans are made in Pakistan and are incredibly cheap, 10 Lbs! Child labor, environmentally harmful surely!
Mary and I then said our goodbyes and she went to see her mother. And I went to the library! and browsed the Irish history sections and looked for McLean history.
Derry had an all culture evening with many events, all free. I went to the Centre for Contemporary Arts and saw the exhibit and talked to the woman who worked there. She was fun to talk to and her father runs a B&B in Donegal.
As part of the Culture Night I helped with a silkscreen of Derry in 1982 and then went on a tour of the Playhouse (theatre) with 5 Derry natives. Some beautiful stained glass:
Lastly I tried to see a documentary about Bloody Sunday at the Free Derry Museum but it was locked up tight. Apparently the program got the time wrong. At least I got to see a pretty street:
The surname McLean is not common so far on my trip. This is the only business I have seen (and there are a lot of them). Gambling!
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