The best Cathedral Quarter Belfast bars for a first visit are The Duke of York, The Harp Bar, The Dirty Onion, The Spaniard and The John Hewitt. They are close enough to visit on foot, but each offers something different, from live music and historic interiors to rum cocktails, local beer and the kind of […]
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I turned up to Belfast for the first time in 2001 with almost no idea what I was walking into. I’d done zero research (past-me was confidently underprepared), assumed it would feel like a smaller Dublin, and left two days later having barely scratched the surface of a city that genuinely surprised me at every […]
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 […]