Balmoral Hotel Belfast

... my favorite food groups. No honey mustard for dipping though! The girl working was the owner's daughter who had attended the training with her dad in Gap,PA. Had fun talking with her since our family has been involved in Auntie Anne's for more than 15 years!

... some people who'd been there before and i definitely wasn't disapointed! the party was really fun and then we all slept in a few of the spare bedrooms or on the floor/couches. the girls were in "the outhouse", a seperate cottage accross from the main house. outside the front door was an old fashioned water pump and just inside the door was an antique sewing machine, we were a bit offended! i think there was about 20 of us squeezed into the 2 ...

... quotes, sayings and song lyrics. and all the people who visit it write their name and a message around the sculpture, they wash it off every few months because it gets too full. next stop was a memorial garden on bombay st in a catholic neighbourhood. it was a street right on the edge of the wall and a street which the loyalists (udia) burnt completely to the ground in 1969. i found it a pretty disturbing place, there has a banner on the wall with photos of ira members who were ...

... recommended not to visit Northern Ireland due to the violence, etc. Just seems unreal to me. We walked through some of the gates that were used to keep the other side out and I found that pretty unbelievable too.

We walked down Shankill Road, along the peace wall and also down Falls Road. We didn't see too much along Falls Road, but saw a lot of mural along the Shankill area (Protestant area). Plenty of photos to show what we saw...hehe

We also visited City Hall (with ...

... of the pubs, but our guide Judy (who was about 60) was a hoot! One of the last pubs we visited was called Bittles, and it looked like a mini-flatiron building. I had a drink in the two pubs we stopped in (cider, but whatever...), and by the end of the night, after another pint, I was a wee bit tipsy and definitely not feeling like updating the blog, so we had a late dinner (which, it seems, is perfectly acceptable here; the first one is dinner, and the ...

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... of the day was driving through northern Belfast, and the areas affected by "The Troubles" between Irish catholics and British protestants. We saw graffiti walls covered by political pictures, homes with either Irish or British flags in the windows to signify their allegiance, and the locations of previous bombings and violence. However, many of the homes had white lillies or white roses in the windows. I wondered if this was a sign that ...

... height of the tensions, the British secret service started a laundry business that catered to the Catholics. They took the laundry and tested it for explosives residue so they could identify who was in contact with bombs and later raid and arrest them. The IRA caught on and killed the driver at a routine laundry pick up. Both sides are extremely proud and neighbourhoods are covered with murals and flags. We are told that they march in parades over 700 times a ...

... wing of the IRA. It’s a busy commercial street, with murals on the sides of the terraced housing off it commemorating hunger-striking political prisoners and deaths of civilians caught up in the recent decades of violence. “Free Sean Kelly” graffiti was another common sight, a tactic which obviously worked as the political prisoner was released from prison six days after our visit.

From there we crossed through the ‘Peace Line’, an ...

Hi Everyone, We arrived into Belfast after our 30 minute flight from Edinburgh. We were sad to leave Scotland, but there is a lot more of Europe to be seen. First impressions of Ireland are very good. We have not had seen much of Belfast yet, so we will have to report back after our excersion. Everything with the trip seems to be going flawlessly. We have not had any problems finding accomodations and usually we spend around £35 between ...