Derry; Wednesday, 22 July, 2009

Given that it was the Wednesday after the schools had broken up, I was fearful that Gatwick was going to be horrendously busy. In the end it was quite quiet, to the extent that the plane was loaded and pushing back before it was even scheduled to, and we ended up landing in Belfast 20 minutes ahead of schedule (catching the ground crew off guard who had to run to the plane to start letting us off!)

A quick zip through the airport wasn’t quite quick enough and I missed the bus into town, so I had a thirty minute wait for the next one. By the time I arrived in Belfast it was already quite late so I checked into the hotel and decided to get an early night