Derry sights, Day 1

We had breakfast at the B&B and got on the road Thursday. It was drizzling very slightly but soon turned into a beautiful day. We saw some gorgeous coast! Green glens of Antrim, indeed! https://youtu.be/uBowVReCgXM

And the Dunluce Castle (seen in The Game of Thrones): a now-ruined medieval castle in Northern Ireland, the seat of Clan MacDonnell. It is located on the edge of a basalt outcropping in County Antrim (between Portballintrae and Portrush ), and is accessible via a bridge connecting it to the mainland.

We made it to Derry by 11:00 to meet 5W member Pat and we walked the walled city. Lovely! 


And if you've watched Derry Girls on Netflix you will like this mural.
We had lunch and I had my third Guinness! 

and then Mary and I returned to Guildhall to see the exhibit on Plantation Ulster (grim: the English trying to get all the Irish out and have only Scots and English in Ulster) and the stained glass and to read about Bloody Sunday (the killings of 1972 by British soldiers decided there in Guildhall in 2010 that the first investigation of the murders was a whitewash and that

 that the killings were "unjustified" and "unjustifiable")



Then we went to the Tower Museum which had an extensive exhibit of the history of Derry and a great view from the tower.

After that we walked on the Peace Bridge, erected in 2011.


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