I’ll be honest: before our first trip to Belfast, I had done the kind of obsessive pre-trip research that would embarrass a PhD student. Conflict murals, the Peace Walls, the Troubles, Orange parades. I had basically talked myself into thinking we were heading somewhere genuinely tense. We arrived, walked around the city centre for about […]
Category Archives: Northern Ireland
Ridiculously useful Northern Ireland travel guides, itineraries, packing lists, tours and day trips.
I turned up in Belfast expecting decent pub grub and left genuinely annoyed at myself for not booking more dinners in advance. The city has Michelin-starred restaurants, a market that deserves half your Saturday, and a deli that has been doing its thing since 1897. I had no idea. Past-me was, frankly, underprepared. Here is […]
I’ll be honest, I spent way too long agonizing over which part of Belfast to book before our first visit. I read everything, made a spreadsheet (yes, really), and still nearly ended up in entirely the wrong place. So let me save you the faff. Belfast is compact, walkable if you pick a central base, […]
Belfast Travel Guides
There are four things that Belfast is famous for, our tour guide tells us. Firstly, that big ship that made it out of the city ‘just fine’, the HBO TV show, Game of Thrones, a ‘colourful’ political past called ‘The Troubles’ and a world-renowned celebrity footballer. Luckily for us visitors, you can actually experience each […]
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