Now, MOSI is a great place, not least because it only cost 3 pounds to get in (voluntary donation).

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I only had a hand-drawn map with me (no printer in the Travelodge!) and my first goal was to find the Tourist Information Center .  Now, this turned out to be actually almost impossible, because the center shows no external sign that it exists. I spent 30 minutes within 2 minutes walk of it (and actually walked right past it once) before I found it.  However, I did find it eventually, and procured a lovely map.
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The final rule I have for solo travel is to set a "hometime" time.  Once I'd got to 4pm I could say I'd officially done a good day as a tourist.  So I had a hot chocolate at MOSI then headed home on the train.  Within minutes of getting back to the hotel my husband arrived shannon airport car rental back from his conference and we went out to dinner.  Perfect.