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    • Ulrike DousIrland und Nordirland
      Day 7

      Belfast

      June 4, 2019 in Northern Ireland ⋅ 11 °C

      Heute waren wir in der City Hall. Dann haben wir die Ulster Hall gesehen, eine Konzerthalle, wo die Led Zeppelin aufgetreten sind. St. Georges Market hat leider geschlossen gehabt. Von außen konnten wir noch die Waterfront Hall sehen und die Harmonie-Statue. Dann waren wir im MAC Metropolita Art Center.Read more

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    • Scott WatersMy Northern Ireland Homie
      Day 1

      Belfast

      August 24, 2014 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C

      I headed to Northern Ireland to hang with Kyle for the first time since he left me all alone in Sydney because he miss his mum to much. I thought I had better go and see him as he was getting jealous because I saw Marvin whilst I was inter-railing haha ;) so I went over for a long weekend and had a great time hanging with him and his mates and being showed around by his mum and dad and being taken to the old Belfast Gaol with his sister. Cheers dude :)Read more

    • TravelerIreland and The United Kingdom
      Day 13

      Belfast, Northern Ireland

      September 1, 2017 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

      Today we went on the Hop On Hop off Bus tour of Belfast, it was wonderful to hear the Northern Irish Brogue and their craic about Belfast. Things like their famous 24 hour Tesco store that advertises it's open 24 hours a day but shuts at 9.00pm every night.

      An important part of Belfast is the Queen's Island area that has the twin yellow shipbuilding gantry cranes, Samson and Goliath, which are prominent on the city skyline. This shipyard is where Titanic was built. Although ships are no longer built here the yards are still used for the maintenance of ships and the building of the giant wind turbines that are dotted throughout the country. Also situated on Queen's Island is the studio for Game of Thrones.

      We continued onto Stormont Parliament Building which is the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly. To camouflage the building during World War II, the building's stone was painted with supposedly removable "paint" made of bitumen and cow manure. However, after the war, removing the paint proved an enormous difficulty and still stains the stone. Now they say there is shit both inside and outside the building. Some more Irish craic.

      We toured both the Unionist and the Republican sides of the city. Belfast you have come a long way in working towards peace but still to see the physical divide of a Peace Wall that is closed off at night and on weekends is saddening. The Peace Wall is used to minimise inter-communal violence between Catholics (most of whom are nationalists who self-identify as Irish) and Protestants (most of whom are unionists who self-identify as British). One mural in particular speaks of what, I hope, will be the future. The mural is based on the poem No More and is designed to send a message to those who wish to continue violence that the next generation wants no part of it.      Read more

    • Brad and Mandy PearceThree months in Europe
      Day 52

      Ships and Walls, Prisons and Castles

      August 24, 2017 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Snapshot
      Where - Belfast, Capital of Northern Ireland
      Weather - fine
      Steps - 12700 or 8km and 11 floors

      We did not know very much about Belfast but after our visit we found out some rather surprising things. We knew the Titanic was built in Belfast and consequently they built a whole exhibition around it which really draws in the crowds. It is a rather impressive building and the display was quite good.

      We took a Black Taxi tour around the Belfast murals. We were aware of the "troubles " that existed in Northern Ireland and particularly Belfast in the past but did not realise that there still exists a wall that separates the Loyalists (those that support the British flag - Protestant), from the Catholics , and the gates are locked every day at 7.30pm (3.30pm on Sunday). It is this wall that has murals on it that are ever changing depending on what they want to emphasise at the time. For example there is a mural depicting Civil Rights leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.
      The troubles still exist, although not in the sense of the IRA (Catholics) killing Loyalists (Protestants) and vice versa; but more in gangs and drug related problems.

      The next day we visited Crumlin Road Gaol which was still in operation up until about 20 years ago and it was a very interesting tour about what it would have been like to be imprisoned here. When it went out of service as a prison, it was reopened as a tourist attraction by some former inmates (one of whom was the First Minister - like a Premier).

      We had time to look around the gardens of Belfast Castle before catching the ferry back to Scotland and onto the southern area of the UK.      Read more

    • TravelerIrland und Nordirland
      Day 8

      Belfast

      June 10, 2019 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C

      Nun ging es nach Belfast. Ich war in der Wanderausstellung von Game of Thrones. Das war sehr cool, die Requisiten und Kostüme zu sehen, die während der Dreharbeiten eingesetzt wurden. Und ich konnte auf dem Iron Thron sitzen. Außerdem ist vor der Ausstellung das Set von Königsmund aufgebaut, welches man sich ansehen konnte. Leider konnte man dieses noch nicht betreten, da es erst in den kommenden Monaten eröffnet wird.

      Anschließend hatte ich noch zwei Stunden Freizeit in Belfast. Ich habe auf der Fahrt Joslyn aus Pittsburgh kennengelernt. Wir sind zusammen in zwei Secondhand Stores gegangen. Ich habe ein Kleid gefunden und die zwei Vinyl und eine Jeansjacke. Der Besitzer des ersten Stores war sehr cool, er reist oft nach Berlin und wir haben uns ein bisschen über diese Stadt unterhalten. Jetzt geht aber auch schon wieder zurück nach Dublin.      Read more

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    • Traveler2018 Wanderings
      Day 2

      2018 Wander

      August 19, 2018 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

      A family dinner at Daphna's house. Great fun, food, conversations and loads of laughs. Walked home at 1.00 am. I have not been out that late for years.
      We went to eat h the crowds going in f
      or the All Ireland hurling final. Limerick won a thriller.
      Nice day, warm and sunny.      Read more

    • Sabrina-Erik Krehl-OrloviusIrland
      Day 7

      Belfast,Vereinigtes Königreich

      February 9, 2017 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 3 °C

      Die Hauptstadt von Nordirland. 🙄
      War überraschend klein, und hat mich leider nicht beeindruckt. Es ist halt weitestgehend eine Arbeiterstadt. Die Fußgängerzone war klein aber vielfältig und natürlich gibt es auch hier ein paar historische Gebäude wie zum Beispiel das Rathaus oder das des Titanic Museums.
      War okay aber Dublin hatte mir besser gefallen 🙈

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    • Michelle CreasyEurope 2018
      Day 38

      Politics and a dinsoaur

      October 11, 2018 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

      Today was mostly about politics and the conflict in Northern Ireland. I started out with a black taxi tour. It was educational, interesting, eye opening and sobering. My driver Kevin was 9 when the Troubles started and he’s lived in Belfast all his life.
      His insight was interesting and I saw much more than I did yesterday on the hop on hop off bus. He took me to the IRA museum. That was sobering, especially to think that this happened during my lifetime.
      One thing that did make me laugh was one of the rules at the Armagh Women’s prison.
      “Letters may not be smuggled in or out of the prison unless permission has been given beforehand”
      I saw rubber and plastic bullets that were used, they are huge. I had just assumed they were normal bullet sized.
      Part of the peace wall is covered in messages and graffiti. Bill Clinton was the first to write on the wall. I also wrote a message.

      At the end of the tour Kevin dropped me off at the City Hall. They have a comprehensive exhibition on the history of Belfast. Again it was interesting.

      From there I went to the Ulster Museum. They have “Dippy”the diplodocus carnegii dinosaur on display at the moment. He used to be in the foyer of the natural history museum so while I missed him in London I saw him here. To be honest I’m not that excited by dinosaurs but the rest of the exhibition that looked at the various differences in animal species in Ireland and the UK.
      They also had a special exhibition on the events of 1968.

      From the museum I caught the hop on hop off bus again. I wanted to hear what they had to say again. This time the tour guide was an older guy compared to the younger woman yesterday. They seemed to have quite different perspectives. He was not that optimistic about the removal of the peace walls. The guide yesterday tended to view it more as history, which to her it probably was.
      The bus was the last one of the day so I finished up in the city. I took a walk to find Vistoria Square, a shopping centre with a dome on top that gives views of the city.
      From there I got some dinner and headed back to the hotel. My phone battery was very low so I tried to find my way back using the street signs but was having no luck. Fortunately my battery lasted until I got back here.      Read more

    • TravelerUK 2019
      1
      Day 12

      Belfast

      May 9, 2019 in Northern Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Up and about, big breakfast to set us up for a day of exploring, first we got picked up by our black cab tour guide Shaun and he took us to the real Belfast showing us places and things we would never had seen, he took us to the wall and explained a lot of the history of Belfast, so much to take in. We then went to the titanic exhibtion and then wandered around Belfast just enjoying the atmosphere, we then had dinner at Belfasts oldest building which was a very cool pub.Read more

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