Northern Ireland’s second city is changing, and the best way to see it is on a guided cycle tour of the past and present
“This is our destination — a double-decker bus,” says guide Steven Casey. It’s not what you might expect on a Foodie City Cycle, as my tour of Derry with local slow adventure specialist Far and Wild is billed. But there it is — a grey and orange bus with the name ‘Decky’ on its display. It’s parked by the river alongside a kitchen in a converted shipping container. Steven’s smiling. “We’ll get a tasty wee snack,” he says.
So I sought out a fresh approach. A two-hour cycle with a few snacks along the way felt like a new window onto Derry, and this taco confirms it. From our perch on board Decky, I can see upriver towards the Peace Bridge and downriver along the wood-fringed Foyle estuary. Walkers and cyclists pass along the docks where Steven’s grandfather once worked. “Come summer now, this place is hiving,” he tells me.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
We cover more recent political history, too — cycling past the site of the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 and through the Bogside, a nationalist community famous for its murals and painted slogan: ‘You are now entering free Derry’.
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