Derry; Friday, 24 July, 2009

I wandered down into town and started to have a bit of a walk along the riverside to take in the views, however, my wanderings had to be halted early as the light mist that I had been wandering through decided to develop into a full blown downpour, so I dived into the nearby Tourist Information centre to wait out the rain.

As the rain started to subside I left the TIC at the same time as the open top tour of Derry (thankfully today operating with a fully closed top!) was getting ready to leave, so I went on that tour to take in the sites. As it pulled back into the TIC an hour later I was then in time to take a walking tour of the city centre.

Having completed my suite of tours for the day I wandered down into town to complete my riverside walk which was so rudely interrupted by the weather, on to the Foyle Valley Railway museum.

With that museum under my belt I headed back into the city centre to do the main museum, the Tower museum. I was quite surprised as to how much there was to see in there, and in the end I didn’t get to see it all, as despite having nearly three hours when I arrived, by the time I left they were shutting the doors for it’s closing time.

I had a bit more of a wander around the city, including wandering down into the main part of the Bogside to take some close up pictures of the murals on the walls of the buildings before having a wander back through the city and further down the riverside.

By the time I got back to the city centre it was starting to get quite late, so I stopped for a bite to eat before heading back to my new hotel (having been put up in the owners other B&B the evening before hand as the one I had booked into I would have been the only guest).