It was time to leave Jerry & Mura and so we headed out at about 0930 and went West towards Londonderry where stopped for about two hours to look around.
Initially we walked through the large shopping arcade and then up to the old walls and was very surprised to see them covered with high metal wire frames for protection, either to stop people throwing things and or being hit from below, we guess. You could see on the sides of the houses in the distance the famous drawings depicting ‘Bloody Sunday’ and also the other significant events of the longstanding religous war.The sun was shining again today and the temperature around 10 degrees and so it was very pleasant to walk around. After a coffee and cake in the Costa Cafe we headed towards Killybegs where we have a hotel booked. The roads were extremely bumpy and very uncomfortable indeed and we also noticed lots of rubbish on the roads either items being thrown from car windows or just careless waste material collection people. We stopped for lunch in a little wayside cafe and enjoyed a nice bowl of soup and then drove through the hills but unfortunately it started to rain and with the mist we could not make out the best features of the drive, we guess it may have been very pretty but we could not see.
We arrived in Killybegs rather shaken not stirred from the bad roads and relaxed before having dinner in the Tara Hotel bar where the fish was very good indeed.
This is not a bad Hotel and the staff are helpful and the rooms very comfortable.
Just as we were beginning to settle back in our room there was a commotion outside and a pipe and drum band marched past playing some Irish music and we subsequently learned that this was in honour of the local independent candidate who had one a seat in the recent election. However there were more band members than people on the street to clap, this might tend to indicate something.
