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Arrived to Belfast yesterday evening, after settling up to our hotel, Days Hotel, we went to a walk around the city, but since it had been a Spring Bank Holiday yesterday and it was so late already, almost everything was closed and the city centre pretty deserted. We were also pretty tired and so we just grabbed burgers and gave up to the nausiness.
Today we slept quite long, so that we could manage to stay up more late and explore the city a bit. The very centre doesn't really have real restaurants, and only few pubs(?!), only a whole lot of cafes (which almost all of them closes already at 6PM. > strange..!). On the Great Victoria str. there's some restaurants&pubs. Grabbed lunch in one of them, before going to see the murals in Falls Rd. & in Shankill Rd.
-- We walked to the murals from the centre and it took about 15 min or so. But I gotta say that I was a bit disappointed from them. Dunno, maybe I had expected smth more spectacular, smth more of an street art of some kind, rather than coupla walls full of artisticly bad shaped "paintings"& graffitis, maybe I had expected a _good street art and a whole lotta more of the mural walls.. On Falls Rd., on the catholic side, the murals were better. On Shankill Rd., on the protestant side, there weren't any specific wall over there, the murals just were "here and there" all over the place, on some houses' wall, etc. And there weren't so many of them. Though we didn't walk the whole street from one end to the other. Whole lot of churches and/or some other religious related places everywhere, though. And the general feel of the places/suburbs were quite depressive. No wonder people get depressed, angry, and provocative here.. At least to me all those places relared to religions gave anxiety and uneasiness. ..What else is more vain than having fights and/or wars over a religion?!! Can't think of anything, honestly. Religions are just one plague of the humankind, really. Many wars would have not existed, and many people wouldn't have been killed, if there wouldn't have been religions..
Well, alright, been there, seen that now. But all in all, I think that this is the same case in Belfast than it was in Glasgow, can't _really recommend it to anyone, since there isn't really nothing much to see here. No so specific "feeling" in the city (anymore?!), either.
Now having a pint of Crown Ale in the snug booth of the famous Crown Bar (we have our own snug booth atm, even though the pub is full, last people who shared it with us for a while, left a while after that we had kissed quickly ;)) Tomorrow we're off by ferry&train again, to Glasgow, and onwards to London by the Caledonian Sleeper. Have to book the tickets at tomorrow morning from the railway station below the mall at Gr Victorian Str.&the Europa Hotel (which btw, have been the most bombed hotel in Europe, before Sarajevo!), since we couldn't book them in Glasgow when we left. But I think we'll get them fine from here, too. Looked it from www.seat61.com , from where you can see the rail&sail informations.
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