The main building of my campus. The local students call it "The Harry Potter Building".
Looking towards the river from campus.
More campus.
The Harry Potter building again.
The City Center of Derry. The wall in the back is a section of the original city walls that still surround the very center of Derry.
They kept the cannons, apparently.
This is a statue of Queen Victoria in the Guildhall (the city hall). During the Troubles, an IRA bomb blasted the statue and its pedestal out into the street. She's now missing her hands, and her base has shrapnel marks.
Graffiti on one of the gateways through the city walls.
The view from atop the wall.
The Guildhall.
The wall curving up the hill.
A super old church/cemetery. The oldest tombstone was from 1603, I think.
An old cannon pointing out over Bogside, the mainly Catholic portion of Derry. Bogside was the site of Bloody Sunday, and is also the home to the well known "Bogside Murals".
The oldest department store in the world. Our tour guide said that taking the elevator inside it was "an experience".
The River Foyle.
-Your campus is epic. <3 How do you go there without passing out with glee every day?!
ReplyDelete-People DIED in 1603?! There were even people then?! Weird.
-...what kind of experience can you get from an elevator? 0_o
You can experience sheer terror since it was installed like a hundred years ago. (That's probably inaccurate; I don't really know how old it is, just that it's really old.)
ReplyDeleteAnd I KNOW. So much glee every day!