Belfast; Friday, 15 May, 2015

An 8:45 departure from City on a Saturday morning was never going to be doable from home so instead I headed over towards the Excel exhibition centre to stay at one of the hotels there for the night.

Having dropped my stuff off at the hotel, just minutes before two massive coach loads of French and German school children arrived, I wandered out to grab some dinner.

I had been intending on taking the cable car (or dangleway) over to the O2 (formerly the millennium dome) to grab a bite to eat over there, but as I arrived at the station it was closing down for the evening, apparently there isn’t enough custom to keep it open after 8pm (though if you believe the news stories that should apply 24/7)

Instead I grabbed some things from the Tesco express opposite and headed back to the hotel to have a self-catered dinner in my room before popping down to the bar for a drink and then turning in for an early night.