The trip went well. Other than the 3 hour flight delay outbound and the 1 hour delay inbound everything seemed to go fairly smoothly. The place is very attractive - one only has to turn a corner in the city centre to see the big green hills surrounding the city. The people are friendly and hospitable and very softly-spoken. Our taxi driver (Frankie) told us that the Guinness wasn't as tasty as the same brew in Dublin but was substantially nicer than the English version - and so it was! Frankie also recommended to us the heart-stopping Ulster Fry breakfast whish consists of the usual English breakfast components but with fried soda bread and potato bread added for good measure. Unfortunately the Holiday Inn we stayed at didn't have this sort of brekkie so we had to make do with bacon, egg and beans.
I would like to return to Belfast to check out the taxi tour of the Falls and Shankill Road areas - scenes of sectarian protest and violence in the past decades. I believe this tour costs about a fiver.
This weekend I am off to Southampton. Not as swish as Belfast but it will have to do I guess.
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