Belfast, Northern Ireland – Part Three

Stormont: is home to the Northern Ireland Assembly and was opened in November 1932. In World War II it was painted black using bitumen and cow manure to disguise it from enemy planes. The statue to Edward Carson in the grounds dominates the driveway. Carson resisted Irish Home Rule and drafted a constitution for provisional Unionist government for Ulster.

Belfast, Northern Ireland – Part Two

The bus tour I went on with Allen’s Tours was meant to last 1hour 45 minutes, though with traffic can last a fair bit longer. We covered most of the city and important sites around the centre, including Stormont, Shankhill Road and the Titanic Quarter.

Murals: The murals of Belfast were to mark the different zones of Protestant and Catholic Belfast during ‘The Troubles’, though some now are for other purposes including the Narnia wall in tribute to C.S. Lewis and the peace wall which depicts murals of troubles around the world.

Belfast, Northern Ireland – Part One

Munich airport beergarden - Europa train station Belfast

I left gorgeous, sunny Munich at 10.45 am after having sat in an airport beergarden catching the sun at 9am. It was a far cry from the rain that poured on my arrival at Belfast airport and didn’t stop until my last day. However, this didn’t deter my fellow breakfasters in the B&B I stayed in on the first night from deciding to go for a walk along the beach.