Europa Belfast

Hola y Bienvenidos!!! Este travelogue es sobre mi primer viaje solo. Mi pimera aventura de vida por Europa... Vole desde Buenos Aires a Barcelona, recorriendo muchas capitales y pueblos europeos. Termine mi viaje en las islas britanicas, donde ...

... barrios bohemios. Como me gusto Belfast desde el segundo en que entre! Lo mio son las ciudades con "B", Budapest, Belgrado, Belfast...Espero que Berlin, Brujas y Bruselas respeten la teoria! Beirut, Bagdad y Bangalore para el proximo viaje! Primero tengo ...

... way for the attackers to win. We then went to the Carrickfergus museum (indoors and warmer) before driving into Belfast and the downtown Europa Hotel in Great Victoria Street where we have a lovely large room in which we control the temperature.  ...

... . I made landfall in Belfast at about 5, and immediately got severely lost looking for my hostel. Somehow I ended up in west Belfast in a very Republican neighborhood. My hostel is pretty crummy. It's in a dark alley (thus part of the problem finding ...

... people are just that: past - and should be left there. Anyway, Lydia and I decided we would do a tour to get a bit of Belfast history.  There are 3 ways you can do this: Red open top bus, Black cab tour, or the alternative open top bus ...

... place now after the peace agreement in the late 1990s. Near the place where we stayed, we saw the Europa Hotel- one of the most bombed hotels in Belfast. They say it was bombed around 6 times. We had friends here- Lena & Tellie, both nurses, who ...

... the gardens looking at the lake and all the displays of different flowers and shrubbery. After the tour of the garden we departed for Belfast where we were going to check into our hotel, the Europa, which is a four star hotel. The outside of the hotel is ...

... Ate way too much!! Tomorrow back to Ireland and Dublin. (PS the pics at the moment are from off the web; will be updated at a later date). Lodging info: Oct 18 Belfast, Marine House B & B, #30 Eglantine Ave, www.marineguesthouse3star.com ...

... thaw out before going to a local café to get our Internet "fix" with our cups of tea and coffee then venturing out to explore Belfast, and for Tom to take more photos.  With the weather now cold and wet, we settled for an early night “at ...

... of all it is and was, has been extremely enlightening.  Where Derry had a more historical focus on its struggles, Belfast's strife seems much more contemporary as it still remains a very divided city. Although there have been many recent positive ...

... and a single united Irish Republic. It's the more extreme of the two, and dominates Nationalist/Republican politics in Belfast). This is of course where Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein president and possibly the best known Northern Irish politician because of ...

... nbsp;   The Crown Saloon with its Victorian architecture and private booths is situated opposite the Europa Hotel.   In South Belfast (a mile from the city centre) are Queens University and the nearby Botanic Gardens.  The ...

... door of my flat by 4:30 am and to Edinburgh airport in plenty of time. After a long bus ride from the airport to Europa Station in Belfast and an almost free taxi to Helga Lodge, we dropped our bags in heaven (not really) and headed to the City ...

... a seaside community with ferry service to Scotland. Then south to Carrickfergus, where we pass the huge Norman Castle overlooking Belfast Lough.             We arrive (behind schedule again) in ...