Following a relatively quiet night in Derry we were up and about early to do the Walking Tour of Derry with Martin McCrossan - a must do if visitng Derry. A passionate tour guide - with a slight bias - the tour takes in a walk around the Derry walls, The Bogside, The Sunday Bloody Sunday Story, the Story of the Apprentice Boys and an overview of the various marches that are celebrated in Derry. The picutre depicted here is of the 100th victim killed during the ...

Our day started with a Black Cab tour of the Shankill Road and Falls Road areas of Belfast. Our driver arrived on time and provided us with expert commentary on our trip around the two districts - the Shankill Road area being the Protestant area and the Falls Road area being the Catholic area. Our driver, being a confessed protestant - cleary was biased in his history of the troubled times, however, it was good to get a perspective from him and he did try to prov...

Irish Travels - the Real Journey begins……Sept 9th The day started with breakfast at the hotel - we were lucky to have booked another night at The Castle as it was so close to everything in Dublin. After breakfast we walked to pick up the car - another problem - the car wasn't there - again! - The guy at the counter, who was there yesterday, obviously saw our disappointment, and made the necessary arrangements for our car to be ready - basically this consi...

Today was a fairly quiet day - planning our next days before heading to Paris on Sunday. We began the day by having a big breakfast before heading to the travel agent to work out our plans. We have booked 2 days in Prague, followed by two days in Amsterdam, before heading to Paris on Sunday. Following booking the remainder of this week, we went to Picadilly Circus to see if we could get some tickets to a show tonight. We managed to get tickets to a musical call...

Today we went to St Paul's Cathedral in the morning via the underground train.St Paul's Cathedral was where Charles and Di got married. Following this we caught a City Cruise ferry to Greenwich along the Thames river. The cruise took about half an hour and took in some great sights along the Thames - including some notable pubs along the river as well as numerous apartment buildings. It certainly is worth a trip. The only unfortunate thing is that you cannot acc...