Balmy weather and hot coffee

The Gonzaga-in-Derry 2013 program is off to a rousing start, with students and teachers alike enjoying the unseasonably warm weather, local hospitality and conviviality, and freshly-brewed coffee.

The student and teacher digs, a four-star lodging known as the Tower Hotel, has been laying on hearty breakfasts featuring the likes of thick rashers of bacon, porridge with a nip of whiskey, and all types of eggs and sausages. The coffee and tea has been plentiful.

The weather, hovering around the mid-50s, has locals and Zags alike exclaiming in pleasure as they cross the city walls and stream in and out of Poundland, carry-bags in hand.