Yesterday we headed out early from Dingle to catch a ferry across the River Shannon, which was followed by a drive through the Burren. On the way, we stopped at an ancient stone tomb. The weather was warm again, so it was a nice reprieve to wander the shaded woods at Coole Park, which was folklorist and play write Lady Gregory’s estate. After a short stop at W. B. Yeat’s tower, Thor Ballylee, we made our way up to Sligo for the night.
This morning we were up for an early start again for our drive to Derry. After a walk atop the medieval wall that encases the city, We visited the Free Derry Museum and some of us took a walking tour of the local murals with the Bogside Artists.
This afternoon, while stopped to visit St. Mark’s, C. S. Lewis’s home church, an overzealous Canadian tourist ran her rented vehicle into our bus. We were stopped at the time and no one was hurt. There was a broken tail light and popped tire, but even so, Jerry, our driver, was able to drive in the bus to our lodgings for the night. The Canadian woman reported that she all of a sudden realized that she was on the wrong side of the road and panicked, which resulted in her clipping the corner of our bus.
Tonight we’re in Belfast. We leave on an early ferry to Scotland, where we will drive up the West Coast a bit and stay the night in Oban, which is a small town on the coast.
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