Today we got up and headed back over the border into the republic. The border follows the river boyne, but at Derry it jumps out and goes around the town, so the town is considered Northern Ireland. We stopped at a supermarket to pick up some lunch for the day, then headed into Donegal and to Glenvaugh National Park. When we got to the visitor centre we got on another bus which took us in to Glenvaugh Castle. We got a tour of the castle which had rooms on display as they would have looked under some of the three different owners that the castle has had. It was kind of boring, but the beds did look super comfy after the big night before! After that we went to go for a walk around the park. Lyle went to hike up to the lookout at the top, and Darren and I decided to just go for a stroll towards the waterfall. We went for a pretty slow and unenergetic walk along the track, and didn't quite make it to the waterfall when we thought we should turn back or miss the bus! As we were walking there were these little caterpillar things hanging from cobweb type things from the trees over the path. Darren must have kept walking into them, because about 15 landed on him over the length of the walk, but none landed on me! Weird things. Kind of looked like skinny spitfires. As we were walking back, it started to rain a bit.. Then it started to rain a bit more! By the time we made it back to the castle it was raining quite heavily! We were soaked! We went into the tea rooms to try to dry off (and so did everyone else in the area!), and had some soup and a hot drink. We were still wet when it was time to jump back on the bus. We went to the bus shelter to wait for the next shuttle back to the visitor centre. When it came, everyone piled on, but there were no seats for us! So all the paddywagoners that were on the bus were laughing at us and saying they were gonna drive off on us as the bus drove away! Pretty funny. We only had to wait about 5-10 minutes for the next one though, so it was all good. We got back and jumped on the paddywagon bus and headed back to Derry. When we got back to the hostel, we hung out in the common room for a while and waited for Adrian, who was going to give us a walking tour of Derry. When he got there we headed in to the walled part of the city of Derry, where we went on top of the walls to start the tour. Adrian gave us quite a detailed history of Derry, while we walked the walls of the city. It was really very interesting, but it was FREEZING!! It kept raining on and off (mostly on), and some of the girls left halfway through cos they were too cold. I think Adrian was rushing through it too, and would have gone into much more detail if the weather was nicer, which was a bit of a shame for us! We walked along the street where all the free Derry signs and murals were, which looked pretty amazing, but we didn't get to have a good look at them unfortunately. Adrian told us stories of the protests, and prisoners, and of Bloody Sunday, and much much more. He was actually one of the prisoners, so he had a strong connection to everything, and was getting quite emotional at times. When the tour was finished, a bunch of us went to the Ice Wharf again for dinner. As soon as we walked in the doors, it was amazingly warm! We got some cheap food again, then headed back to the hostel, via the bottle shop again. We had another mini jam session in the common room with us, Jenny and Katie from the US, and Nikki. Later Chris and his sister Meredith rocked up for a few drinks, then the new American boys that joined our tour, Brian, Ryan and Ian. Everyone slowly left, Darren and the girls went to bed, Chris, Meredith and Lyle went out for a few drinks and music, and me and the young guys stayed up drinking for a bit longer. These guys had just finished high school and came over to Europe for a couple of months before college. Age is no excuse not to travel, these kids were younger than Lachie!! After a few more drinks and a bit of funny YouTube videos shared, we went to bed.