As I said, yesterday's drive was fabulous. We did several scenic drives off the main road and saw some beautiful beaches, comparable to those in AUS but of course much colder.
Went to Derry, or Londonderry depending on how you look at it!! and found it to be a very nice city. George was particularly keen to trace his footsteps of 1972 when he visited at the height of the unrest and was arrested for taking pictures of military installations! He had seen a service station after it was just blown up and took a picture, not realising the military building was right behind & they thought he was some kind of activist!!! George, an activist? Hardly. Could and should have planned to stay longer in Derry.
We took a trolley ride around parts of the city which were right in the firing line at that time. Most interesting and hopefully all behind us now.
Continued on to Giant's Gap which is a famous tourist spot in Northern Ireland. Stopped for a guinness at a small pub on the way to our resting place for the night. On Elspeth's recommendation we booked into the Ballygally Castle hotel at Ballygally. Caught glimpses of the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland from the road en route. With just the road between us and the Atlantic we were lulled to sleep by the crashing of waves - or maybe it was the delicious steak and bottle of red wine we had for dinner!
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