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March 7th 2011

Published: June 8th 2017

Geo: 54.9981, -7.30934 So we hopped onto our tour at 8am that morning. There's 24 of us, including our funny-ass driver, Seanie. He hella makes us laugh. It turns out we have lots in common with the other travelers. There's like 5 radiographers from Australia ("Austraya"), an old couple (the wife is a nurse), Katie (a specialist who injects radiographic dye into people), a guy from Seattle, 2 sis... Read Full Entry

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Nicki

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I think I've been traveling all my life, whether it was tagging along with my dad on business trips to Austin, Texas, numerous yearly (sometimes twice) camping trips to Yosemite, the occasional Disneyland trip, and all sorts of road trips. I loved hiking and exploring with my mom, and tried to pass that on to my younger siblings as they grew up. I ended up going further as I got older- an epic three month backpacking trip through Western Europe as a graduation gift to myself, trips to Japan, New Zealand and Fiji with friends, weekend trips across the country, camping anywhere I can and even ... full info

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Derry

Political mural

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Sign payin homage to the IRA

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Bogside

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Protestant neighborhood smack in the middle of the Catholic side of the river

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Protestant neighborhood

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Walkin along the walls of the city

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Peace bridge goin up... European Union is payin for it. lol. Oh man.

Derry

Chris being accosted by a crazy guy... who was drunk... couldn't understand anything he was saying, but he was funny

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Police station! Check out them cameras!

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Chris is falling asleep waiting for the music to start in the pub- it was awesome once it happened!

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Chris is falling asleep waiting for the music to start in the pub- it was awesome once it happened!

8th March 2011

Dianasaur
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I'm gonna go there just to see that. I have an odd fascination with saint body parts. HahaAnd yes. Oliver plunkett is a fabulous name for a headLess guy.

21st March 2011

Fran
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Lovin' the blog!! My client is sleeping so I'm catching up on your travels :) tee hee! LOVE the architecture...old and beautiful with history. I so need to travel out of this country again soon! But maybe not to Ireland...or at least not to
Derry. Rick is Catholic and I'm Protestant, but we're not Irish so maybe that's ok??!! Ha! Enjoy the rest of your trip!

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