Belfast; Sunday, 17 May, 2015

Usual excellent Premier Inn breakfast and then out onto the open-top bus tour to head over to the Ulster museum for the morning. I was intending on it being a relatively quick journey round to the museum, but there were problems on the Falls Road which meant that the bus was taking a different route.

Throughout the 70’s, 80’s and into the 90’s and even the 00’s problems on the Falls Road would have been bad news. Today, it’s because the council was resurfacing the road.

I had a long look round the Ulster museum and then wandered through the neighbouring Botanical Gardens to have a look round the Palm house before heading back to the bus stop to pick up the tour bus back into town.

After a stop for lunch in the city centre I wandered out to the Crumlin Road to visit the former Gaol to take in the afternoon tour.

The tour was incredibly interesting; not least for just how many of the people who run Northern Ireland who have been guests of the prison when it was open.

I walked back into town and then headed back out to the hotel for dinner and then a bit more of a wander around the Titanic Quarter before turning in for the night.