It's been three days with no internet access which I have to admit seemed a little strange...not that we really had time for it. We made it to Malin Head, the northern most point in Ireland, after a very interesting drive. Some of those mountains were really steeeeep! With nothing on the side but straight down a few of the spot were scarey!! In the end, OMG, was it ever worth it! The views were unbelievable and absolutely breathtaking. No wonder the dairy products over here are so good. The cows have such a great envionment to live in. We arrived in Northern Ireland on Thursday. It's very interesting to be in a politically divided city. Flags of the Republic on one side of the river and the Unionist on the other. They even have taken sides re: Palestine vs Israel and fly those as well. Derry itself is very large but has a great deal of modern. After a taxi tour of the city (Thank you, Michael for all your patience with all my picture taking) we attended a charity concert (From The Heart) with several well known musical artists. We had figured we'd be out by 10:00 - 10:30 but it didn't finish until after 12:00! Our original plan had been to drive back to our hotel after (an hour and a half's drive) but had a huge surprise when the lady who organized the concert invited us to stay at "the" local hotel, in a suite she had booked for one of the entertainers. Even without luggage we decided it was an invitation we could not refuse and quickly made our way to the hotel and bed. The next morning we decided instead of driving back down to our hotel and then up to the northern coast again we'd just pack up and head straight there, no make up, clean clothes or anything. With the wind we encountered hair was not a concern, mother nature took that into her own hands! Once again the views were unbelievable! Giant's Causeway and all the other little (and large) treasures that were tucked along the way are beyond description and I'm not sure the pictures will do them justice. The only bad thing that happened was that my camera batteries both ran out. Being that we hadn't made it back to our "home" hotel Friday night nothing was charged and we ran out of phone and camera "power"! We finally made it back last night around 8:30 and quickly collapsed. Neither of us could believe that we were not going to be able muster up the energy for another evening out but we also realized we were going to have an early call this morning.
Sunday morning it was up and out early for a quick dash (2 hours) to Mullingar, in the center of the country. It is located in what the people refer to as the "Midlands" and from what we have seen so far is a lovely town, not too big, but with everything you could want. We made it in time for mass at the cathedral, lunch and then located our B&B. Like I said earlier, it's been a quiet and lazy afternoon. My "driver" is really tired and resting and I'm trying to catch up with my emails and blog. It's will be out for dinner sometime soon and we'll see what other mischief we can get into this evening. Once again please forgive the spelling errors, I promise to take more time to make corrections.
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