Northern Ireland

This morning, we left Sligo and I gave my presentation on Yeats; we also passed the cemetary in Drumcliffe where he was eventually buried (he died in France in 1939 and his body couldn't be transported back to Ireland for 9 years). We went to Glenveagh Castle today, which was built in the 1800s and has only had a few owners; its last owner gave the castle to the Irish government in the 80s. We were there a bit early for our tour, so we had almost an hour to wander around the gardens before taking the tour. The parts of the house we could see were lovely and our guide was very informative. We left the castle a little before 3 and came up to Northern Ireland, going straight to Derry. It was raining, so we didn't do much besides walk along the city wall for a while before going to our accommodations, which are absolutely lovely. This evening, we had a group dinner, and I'm about to go journal and get ready for bed; it has been a long day of traveling, plus I'm taking Sudafed to clear out my head before we get on the plane on Sunday. There is quite the line for this computer, so I'm going to sign off now.