BELFAST... AND FURIOUS !

17 juillet 2009

Bye Bye Belfast, Au Revoir Irlande

This will be my last post in this blog. Tomorrow, I'm leaving Belfast and Ireland for good. Direction : Greece and Athens ! :-) Here are my last pictures of Belfast, not very cheerful ones : last week was the Twelfth of July, and it's the bonfire season,...

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Tags: Bonfires, The Twelfth, Bombs

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27 juin 2009

The Twelfth is Coming

It looks like a wild wasteland, but this is not littering. This is the preparation for the Twelfth of July.

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Tags: Bonfires, The Twelfth

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18 mai 2009

A night at the "Opera"

Last Saturday, I was invited at the Grand Opera House of Belfast to watch a play. This is one of the fanciest place of Belfast, created in 1895 and refurbished totally some years ago. As the bizarre architecture of the place says it, it is not a place...

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19 avril 2009

A visit to the zoo

Belfast Zoo is only 20 minutes away by bus from the City Centre. Take any bus n°1 from Donegall Square West, and here you are. It is in the shadow of Cave Hill, and has quite a lot of species. Unfortunately, i ran out of time and could not see for exemple...

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9 novembre 2008

THE KREMLIN

The Kremlin is not only the siege of the Russian government in Moscow, it's also the name of one of the most famous nightclub of Belfast. The reason why it is named after the Kremlin remains a mystery, all the more since it is a gay nightclub ! A place...

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Tags: Kremlin, Nightclub, Party

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8 juillet 2008

Saint George's Market

It is said to be one of the oldest and greatest attraction of Belfast and one of the best market in all United Kingdom. As seen from the building of my job : It was built between 1890 and 1896. To be frank, it doesn't reach the level of the markets I...

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Tags: Food, Saint Georges' Market

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6 juillet 2008

Dog, Ship, and Seahorses

The Belfast coat of arms was established officially in 1890, when Belfast was granted the status of city by the Queen Victoria, during her official visit. However, the chained dog, and the seahorse were largely spread among merchants long before that....

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Tags: Blason, Coat of Arms, Symbol

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29 juin 2008

Carnival !

Yesterday, to my great surprise, while I was heading to the Royail Mail Enquiry Office to get a letter too big for my letterbox, I happened to meet a lot of people in the streets and children with strange colored outfits. Then, after discovering that...

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Tags: March

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26 juin 2008

Live Session at "the Duke of York"

The problem, in Irish pubs, is that it's very difficult to hear musicians playing. All the people around make so much noise that it's barely audible ! So, the contrary of what happens on the continent, where music is just hear to make people deaf ! What...

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Tags: Gaelic, Bar, Music

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15 juin 2008

TOUR GUIDE

Yesterday, I went with people of my workteam for a Guided Tour of Belfast, through the districts were bad things happened since 1968 (year when the problems started to arise between Protestants and Catholics, fostered by the British). So we took a black...

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Tags: Murals, Cab, Tour, Visit

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