We were up pretty early to get ready to leave Derry. The apartment arrangement requires us to leave the place as clean as it was when we arrived. They must have someone come in to wash and change the sheets and towels, but we have done the dishes and taken out the trash. Everything else looked good. We took the luggage to the car first before stopping for a light breakfast at the Ice Wharf. It doesn't have very good reviews, so we have avoided it for dinner. I am...

Philip made arrangements with the director of the Foyle Family History Centre to meet him there this morning. Keith Wright was extremely helpful and willing to spend a lot of time looking for our ancestors for us and showing us other places to look when we get home. Lots is online, but not everything. We'll need to come back to Belfast sometime to see the records held there at PRONI. We drove to Limavady and Aghnaloo looking for churches and graveyards that might...

I planned a long walking tour for us today, and we got to about half of it. We wanted to spend time at the city library, too, to see if they had any new information for Philip's research. Two of the librarians were quite helpful bringing out books and maps that might have information for us. They also gave Philip a lead on who to contact at the Foyle Family History Centre of the local LDS church. I was disappointed to see that the Culture Wall was not completely ...

Today we left Kilcolgan for the drive to Derry. Karen had an early appointment so she told us last night what to do about the keys and the doors when we were ready to leave. Philip got the car packed (I think with Grizzly's help), and we were on our way. The driving today was over mostly nice two-lane roads. At one point, the gps told us to take off the highway for more rural roads. We did that not realizing what was happening at first, but corrected ourselves w...

Philip and I slept late finding it easy to sleep in the quiet and quite dark castle. It is very old, some parts built in the 11th century, and has lots of characteristic scars and oddities, but the beds are comfortable and the plumbing works. We couldn't get the shower to turn on even after getting the very specific instructions from Karen on how to work the electric shower. Turns out we did not turn one button far enough. She showed me how to do it today. The ki...