Filed under: Ireland, Lauren Selden, personal intrests, photography, travel | Tags: adventure, bloody sunday, Bogside, Clouds, day tour, Derry, Dublin, Giants Causeway, Ireland, Lauren Selden, memory, New Derry, Paddywagon Tours, tourist, travel
Going in back in time now, and beginning from the beginning of the traveling days. This post was written in my travel journal on April 7th, during my last week in Ireland.
The past few days have been amazing. Sunday (the 5th April) I went to the North- to see the Giant’s Causeway or Derry. The weather was fantastic! The sights were beautiful and I even befriended another girl who was travelling alone as well. The Giant’s Causeway is a strange basalt rock formation on the north-east point of Ireland. The rock was all formed into perfect hexagonal columns. Fantastic!
The rocks are just like little stepping stones, but still it was quite a climb to the top!
Then we travelled to Derry, which was pretty incredible. We met with a tour guide there who was from Derry and lived there through all the troubles. He took us on a walking tour of Derry and the ‘Bogside’ (which is where the English shoved all the Irish Catholics as they took over Ireland) Very heavy stuff. As we walked down along the road where Bloody Sunday occurred, I think we could all feel the weight of the history of Derry and the ‘Bogside’.
When we got on the bus, we were all totally silent. You could feel the impact the visit had had on us all, a far cry from a few hours earlier when we were all cracking jokes about giants.
I’m making the most of my last days in Ireland, trying to re-visit all my favorite Dublin institutions, as well as getting out and seeing more of the countryside. Plans are set for a trip to Blarney Castle and Country Limerick as well as a weekend in Galway. Hard to believe my time in Ireland is coming to a close, it has been an amazing 4 months.
And as always: Lots more photos are available on my Flickr. Click Here!
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Hey Lauren from Nicole’s blog! I think I’ve met you once or twice before, as you look familiar. Thanks for the knitting compliments – they are skills I’m sure you can easily acquire!
Gorgeous pics of Ireland, I went there only for a week and a half. I’d go back in a heartbeat. The Giant’s Causeway was probably the whole reason I went there in the first place. It’s beautiful and windy!
Comment by lapetitechouette May 18, 2009 @ 7:21 am