A day in Gallway

Got off to our usual start this morning, and drove the entire way from the east coast to the west coast in two and one half hours.  Not to bad for a couple of beginners, and we ended up in one of the oldest and best preserved cities in Ireland. Gallway is an ancient sea port and trading outpost founded, you guessed it folks, by the Vikings. It's most noteworthy feature is the fact the the old city wall is still intact over large areas of the city. They just built the new city around it.

 

By far the largest structure in town, which can be seen from anywhere is the great Cathedral of Gallway Which originally was designed to hold 2,000 worshippers for daily services.

 The one event which has left a deep and permanent scar on the national character was the Great Famine, which we refer to as The Starving Time.  Gallway was the port many of our people used to flee to new lands in search of a better life.  The folks back home have never forgotten, and you see memorials to it everywhere.

 

But being a college town you notice all the things we have in common both here aand across the pond in the States.  Culture really does travel around the world.

 

So  as I close out today I just want to show one of us alive and well  because tomorrow we are sleeping in after driving the whole way across the country in one day we are beat.