Day 10: Donegal to Derry, Northern Ireland

Although we intended to leave early from Creeslough, we didn't really get on the road until around noon. On the way, we stopped at two really interesting old sites- Burt Castle (16th century) and Grianan of Aileach (6th or 7th century). Both were completely unattended- like there were no staff or volunteers to protect them. In fact, the castle was sitting in the middle of a barley field- we had to ask the farmers to walk through their property to see it. Our next accommodation was outside the city of Derry, in the freezing cold coach house of the Prehen estate. There was a horse and some chickens on the grounds, and beautiful paintings and interesting books in the place. But we were frozen! We decided to get back in the car and drive up to the Giant's Causeway, which was an amazing rock formation on the coast of Northern Island. We were lucky enough to get a beautiful sunny afternoon up there. But the driving may have been a wee bit too much, and the kids and we struggled to behave on the way back. Once they were in bed, Kevin and I made a lovely fire and listened to the radio.