Black Taxi Tour Belfast

We got up this morning around 9, took our time getting ready, and had breakfast around 10AM. We had Phillip schedule our tour for just after 11. Our driver, Bill, picked us up, and headed to the eastern side of Belfast, where the port and shipyards are. Kaaren and I didn't know that the Titanic was built in Belfast. There was apparently very active …

Travelpod sagt, man soll sich für seine Blogs clevere Titel einfallen lassen. In der Hoffnung, diesem Erfordernis Genüge getan zu haben, möchte ich euch herzlich bei meinem zweiten Blogeintrag aus Belfast begrüßen.

An unserem 2. Tag hier in Belfast haben wir zwar nur wenige Sehenswürdigkeiten besucht, diese dafür aber ausführlich. Der Tag …

The plane began its descent into Belfast and the last few sips of wine warmed my insides, which were knotted with excitement.

Ireland.

I'd never been here before. And I was remembering the feeling you get when you land into completely uncharted territory for he very first time. There was nothing like it. While England and …

... a rope bridge that looks a lot longer than it really is but was an experience when the wind hits you. In Belfast, we took a Black Taxi tour of the neighborhoods that were/are most impacted by “The Troubles” that began in the 1960’s. ...

... ;my room with an Australian girl, Heidi, last night. The two of us, along with Anne (another Australian woman) went on a Black Taxi Tour this morning. George, our taxi driver, took us all around Belfast to show us the Protestant and Catholic sides of the ...

... my appreciation for Northern Ireland grew significantly from learning the political history. We were lucky enough to take a 'black taxi tour' where the driver shows you around both the protestant and catholic sections of Belfast and explains the history ...

... Belfast and had some lunch (In Westfields) before checking into our Hostel. After checking in we did what is called the Black Taxi Tour of Northern Ireland. There are areas where we in the tour bus cannot go and the taxis drive freely through the ...

... for our last day of sightseeing together in Ireland.  At 10:30 we were picked up by Pat, the driver of a Black Taxi Tour Raylene had prearranged.  Pat took us to the key sights of West Belfast, the area where Protestant and Catholic ...

... bagel and scrambled eggs I've had since I can't remember when. We asked at the hostel front desk about setting up a "black taxi" tour, which is supposed to be the way to see the politically/religiously divided areas in West Belfast, with a guide who ...

... causeway and into Bushmills to visit the worlds oldest distillery and sample some 12 year old whiskey. In Belfast, I met many nice people and took a black taxi tour to see the murals and the wall built between the Catholic and Protestant parts of the ...

... a clodding - throwing stones at each other.  The 1997 cease-fire and 1998 Good Friday agreement have given Belfast security.  We hired a black taxi tour and headed off to see Belfast.  First he took us past the Harland & Wolff Shipyard ...

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... green Paddywagon tour bus cannot travel through the Protestant area for fear of being stoned or worse. Instead we take a black taxi tour through these communities, stopping off to look at the ominous, and frankly scary murals of balaclava clad gunmen ...