• Belfast day trip, Northern Ireland

    June 13 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

    Belfast is Northern Ireland’s capital, with close to 350 000 people living within the city and a total of 1.13 million in the wider city region. Belfast has enjoyed 26 years of peace. However, there are still over 20 miles of peace walls - or peace lines - across Northern Ireland, the majority across Belfast, which surprisingly remain closed at night to this day!
    Some intruding facts...
    * C.S. Lewis and Van Morrison were born in Belfast.
    * Game of Thrones was filmed in 63 locations around Belfast
    * 10 000 bomb attacks over a 30-year period (prior to the 26 years of peace) made up a period referred to as "The Troubles" (1969 to 1998)
    * Belfast was the birthplace of the RMS Titanic, which famously struck an iceberg and sunk in 1912.
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