Last day in Donegal, before coming back to Belfast.
Blessed by a sunny sky, we went for a decent visit of Derry/Londonderry.
Entering Free Derry
Except from being the “Walled City”, Derry does not have too much to sightsee.
However, you can always take a pleasant walk inside the old city, looking here and there, just for fun.
When you are in Northern Ireland, it is better to use at the maximum the not-so-cloudy-to-rain days.
On Day 6, our destination was the Glenveagh National Park.
The road towards the Glenveagh National Park
This park is located in the heart of Donegal County, an hillside land, full of astonishing natural places.
At the center, the small Glenveagh Castle welcomes the visitors.
The lucky to have a bright sky above our head, unfortunately, stood just one day.
After the gorgeous sunny in Cushendun, it wasn’t so beautiful the day after. But, hey, you are in Ireland, are you expecting nice weather? Forget it!
Steps over the stones
Not too bad, anyway, we head our steps on the Giant’s Causeway.
The Giant’s is one of the such place you imagine of when you are kid, as a far far away, magic place.
I remember when I was young, the story about the Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill. Maybe not every kid imagine such things, but I always thought how cool would have been go there. And now, I did! 
Read here the legend of warrior Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway
An entire month is passed and no more news from Belfast. The fact is that until yesterday, I was actively working (more or less) on the reason why I’m here.
I was able to pack a little demo that show the base architecture I did and now I can relax on my last week in Belfast. I have to complete the documentation, you know, otherwise nobody will understand my code, but, there is time for that. (BTW, the source code and the description of the project will be available soon here).
Northern Ireland is a great country. I really like it. I call it “Northern Ireland”, because it’s Ireland, but it’s United Kingdom, too. People that have been both in UK and IE say that the countries and people are quite different. British tend to be more cold than Irish, and student are absolutely rude with professor.
To me, it seems to live in PleasentVille (do you remember it?) People are very kind and they are so polite and helpful that is a pleasure to have troubles here (beware: not Troubles!). There is always a smile in their face, and it is impossible to not love them!
There are many inconsistencies. For some aspects it is very well-advanced. All the buildings are wheelchair accessible (and I mean every) and the medical care is free for everybody. Which is great, but it is a non-sense: the medicines and doctor are paid by the Government, that uses money from taxes. So, what is free, in reality it is not. The technology, on the contrary is not as advanced as UK. The recycling system just works, but the heating system burns oil. Seriously. Simply there is not any gas methane here. And everybody loves their car. Even in the remote village of very Northern Ireland you can find many big cars that sucks petrol and smokes the air.
In this case, however, this country is lucky: it rains every week (you can count on it) and the air is always fresh. When I first arrived here, I felt cold, but now, there are 15° and I am in short and t-shirt. And of course, the grass is green. And cut perfectly. Even the smallest garden is perfectly cut, at the University campus the grass is cut once a week, and they even collect the rubbish.
It’s almost a pity I already (will) have a job, otherwise, who knows…
The first week is gone, and now is almost time to start… wait, I forgot something: why I am here, in the first place!
Well, let’s start again.
Hi everybody! Here it is you beloved Luca that is writing from Belfast, the main city of Ulster.
Since I am between two jobs (I love this, because it seems that I had a salary before and I will one after. The fact is that I did not see the former one and the latter, who knows…), I accepted the kind proposal of a professor to spend a period at the University of Ulster. So, here we are!