Park Inn, Belfast

... rd protestant area and were shown around by one of the protestant taxi drivers. it was just a quiet suburban area but it was quite scary listening to him talk. the uda (ulster defence army - pro uk) and ira (irish republican army - pro republic of ireland) have a cease fire now but aparently they're still active just not officially armed. when we first got in the taxi the driver asked us if we'd seen any ira members, we said no and he said how do you know? then he asked if we ...

We hit Giants Causeway and Dunluce Castle today, which is a huge castle<br>that literally fell of the side of the cliff while people were in it<br>waiting for their meal. It was pretty cool to see, then we drove the<br>entire Coastline which was unreal. It was soooo cold and rainy and<br>windier than ever today, yet still there were a million ...

... wisdom) thought it was best for us to do the Guiness Factory tour FIRST instead of last thing Saturday afternoon. Those keen for a quick pint agreed, and off we went. <br><br>In a nutshell, the Guiness tour is a must see for anyone in Dublin. The brewery has been going for 250 years, and the Guiness family is responsible for most things in Dublin (including the Guiness book of world records, don't you know!). Guiness is celebrating it's 250th year ...

... IRA/Ulstern graffiti and told of us how the Irish/English factions are getting on much better and how life is improving for those that live in Belfast. We had a look at the docks where the Titanic was made and then finally got dropped off at the Ramada in Belfast.<br> It was in the hotel room as I tried to charge the camera battery that we discovered that the australia/uk adaptor was left this morning at the hotel..bugger. We scrounged a ...

... that I had been emailing back and forth over the last few days. He told me I was hard work! Oh please. I'll show you high maintenance buddy! So he sat us down and talked to us for a while, spending much of the time telling me I wasn't much of a planner. He really wanted to show us the "real" Belfast at night, the pub experience. So he convinced me to call our host at Killead Lodge that we would be even later than planned, it was already 10pm. Nigel is very convincing:) So I did. Nigel took ...

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Day 195. Scenes of a Zombie Movie 26/10/08 Arrived in Belfast 06.30 after sleeping for 2hrs on the back seat of the coach. Just me and the driver on a 50 seater coach for the whole journey. Once dropped off my iFriend guided me to the hostel. There I met Roanna who I was here visiting having travelled together in Thailand/Laos. She was working at the hostel so I had breakfast, tried to sleep then headed in town. It was around 10:00 on a Sunday. Botanical Gardens were ...

... to drop off and pick up except this short dead end drive. You can imagine the disaster when multiple cars were dropping off and picking up. We had dinner at Mourne Seafood Bar. Check out the website http://www.mourneseafood.com/ . Fresh fish. It was so yummy!! I ate so much I thought I may die. Uncomfortable was an understatement. It was so good though. And I didn't have dessert.... thankfully!

... particular Protestant areas seemed poorer in comparison to the Falls Road, the terraced houses were generally not as well looked after, some of the shops were boarded up and there was a lot of litter piling up in the streets. The murals were much more foreboding too, almost exclusively glorifying Loyalist paramilitary groups with paintings of balaclava-clad men pointing machine guns in a show of strength for the Loyalist cause. <br> <br>I found these places just as ...

... a little frustrated with Belfast so we all decided to head south to Dublin hoping the weather would be a little better. We took the train to Dublin, when we arrived we found out the weather was the same, rain and cold and it would be for the next few days. We didn't really want to wait out the rain so we decided to head out to the airport. Next on our list was France so we decided to get a flight to Paris. It would be good to stay in a nice hotel in Paris......so we thought.