Day 1 part 2

It seems Ted and Nancy have settled in in Raphoe but are finding the weather quite wintry. They are very grateful (as are we!) to our good friends Evy and Geoffrey for going all the way to the airport in Belfast to collect them after they had missed their flight from Heathrow and had to take a later flight.
We have spent the afternoon in Victoria wandering about and trying to get a sense of the place. As you can see below, Jim's quest for Irish pubs throughout the world continues.

Ted's daughter, Erin, and her husband Kevin came to visit in the evening so we had all our queries dealt with except one. As I had not started to prepare dinner when they arrived, I did not realise that I had no idea how to use Nancy's state of the art electronic electric cooker. We pushed all possible buttons in all possible combinations to be greeted with varying bleeps and alarms and I had just completed my first f dance at the thought of starving overnight when I had a brainwave that finally solved the problem. That was immediately followed by the h dance!

The Irish Times Irish Pub

The building it is in is quite nice.

While we were admiring these totems at the entrance to a square, a young man came up to us and told us that his uncle had carved them. Then he just walked off!

This is a view of Government Buildings. It is quite imposing.

One of the floating houses in the wharf. There are supposed to be more but  we saw only one.

One of the beautiful spring flowerbeds at the wharf.

Today it is raining, probably to make us feel at home. Our plan was to take a hop on hop off bus in order to find out more about the city and discover which areas require a longer visit. No holiday is complete without some hopping on and off! Hopefully the rain will not hinder us.