Our last day to enjoy Derry – we filled it with a thrift shop visits in the walled city to see if we could find a treasure piece to take home.

The “charity” stores focus on specific purposes – children’s hospital, cancer research – and do business side-by-side with the jewelers, Irish crafts, and café businesses. We poked around without luck and had a bite to eat. Irish stew with brown bread for me.

Cora and Kelly met up with us and the girls trekked back home. Cora had a couple of antique shops that could have what I’d hoped to find all afternoon, an Irish teapot. And we got lucky.  It’s silver with a scalloped pot, so eye-catching. Cora thinks it has ivory trim inset on the handle – a take home piece adopted by a grateful American.

Heading back to Clarence House, we decided to have our last dinner out. Lamb shank and pasta with cocktails – it’s nice to have a legal-aged daughter to dine with. Tomorrow, Belfast.

Irish stew for lunch.

A last look at Clarence House. Cora’s place is two doors away.

On our way to the rail station, farewell, Derry.