Another Country

I went to Donegal today to see if we could find some half-decent pottery as a gift (we're still looking!) and we decided to via the ferry that departs from Magilligan Point and sails to a place just south of Moville, our intended destination for this trip.

When we got to the ferry port, we felt a bit peckish, so we stopped for lunch at a place called the Point Bar, which is about ten metres away from the entrance to the ferry port! They do rather nice burgers and champ and the prices are very reasonable.

The bridge to get on to the ferry

The ferry itself it quite new and gets up to a rather surprising speed! You just drive on and drive off - simple.

Drive on and off...obviously not when the boat's moving...

Disturbingly, there was no one up there for a lot of the trip *gulp*

They put the lorry in a specific position to balance the ferry...

Let's hope we won't be needed those!

Once we'd made it across the water, we went to Moville pottery to cover the gift aspect of the trip...however, it was...well a bit crap really. They didn't have a massive selection, but we found something anyway and we were on our way again very soon.

The Moville pottery sign...sideways...ahem...forgot to change it...

We were thinking of going down and taking the ferry across Lough Sligo, but we decided against it as we thought it would take too long. Also, the info that I was getting from the internet on my phone about the sailing times was sketchy at best!

Notice that the speeds are in kmph!

Instead we went straight down south to Derry and hit the Foyleside. A blitz of M&S and a couple of magazines later, we were on our way once more, yet again heading for the York restaurant, picking my dad up from home first (he'd just finished work).

A view of the Foyleside

A view from the top of the Foyleside (i.e. Derry)

Those rigs again! (Plus I thought it was a nice photo...)

All in all, I think this was a pretty successful trip and that the ferry is pretty cool!

David