Northern Ireland: Derry

This weekend, I got out of the city of Dublin and visited another Rotary Scholar, Jen, and her finance, Brent. She is Canadian, he's from Vermont, and they met doing peace keeping work in Uganda, Africa. Cool people to say the least. Anyways, the bus ride was around 4 hours, but it was a nice ride through the countryside. Derry is the second biggest city in Northern Ireland next to Belfast. It was also the scene of many hard times during what is termed "the troubles" which is the past thirty years of clashing between the Catholics and Protestants. Things are now calm, but there is still some unrest, as I will explain later. I have so many pictures from this weekend, so i'm going to make a post for a couple of pictures at a time, so i can explain them fully. This first one is the town crest of Derry. Notice the skeleton with his head of his knee, yeah no one really knows why that is there...it's just plain funny. The other is a picture i took of a a border collie that was sitting on that grassy nole overlooking the Catholic area of the city. Unfortunately, the dog layed down right when i took the photo, but i think it's still cool. Ok, more pictures soon....