MJ and I dragged ourselves out of our beds at about ten to nine and went out to get breakfast in the B&B. The dining room was really nice and the spread was excellent. I had cereals, toast, tea, juice, cooked breakfast and some homemade preserved apricots which were lovely!
We checked out and had a bit of time before the tour of the physics department so we walked around the town for a while. It's compact, set inside a horseshoe bend in the River Tyne; the people are really pleasant too and the city itself is quite picturesque... It was misty though so I didn't feel like taking many photos.
I enjoyed our tour of the department but it wasn't as involved as the tour at Oxford because it wasn't specifically an open day. We had lunch in the Union bar with another prospective student we'd met on the tour.
In the afternoon, a load of people gathered inside an ancient lecture theatre in the administration building to listen to a short talk about the university and colleges followed by an animated, tale-fuelled tour of the university, which dominates the city. If I remember rightly, a fifth of the population of Durham are students at the university!
