{"id":2062,"date":"2024-06-01T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2024-06-01T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T15:50:56","slug":"belfast-down-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/?p=2062","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Down Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday was another travel day – Kilkenny to Dublin to Belfast.The plasce we\u2019re staying in Belfast is an AirBnB flat, just outside of the city centre. After getting settled, we went for a ramble around the neighbourhood to see where things were. We made our way down to the Cty Hall, and looked around to find a place to have dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We ate at a restaurant called Hell Cat Maggie\u2019s, then walked back to the flat. That evening, we decided to schedule a bus tour out to the Antrim coast for Monday, and a train ride to Derry\/Londonderry for Sunday. Today, the plan was to ride the hop-on-hop-off bus in the morning, then Penny had an appointment for a tattoo in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this morning, we were tired, and kinda done with tours for a bit. Instead, we walked down to the George Street Market, which was an awesome place full of food vendors and crafts and art and everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And, at one of the stalls, I found my souvenir ring for this trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After we had some lunch there, we went wandering down by the river and saw some of the memorable things I\u2019ve seen before in Belfast, like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Big Fish. The area around it was much more park-like and friendly than the last time I was here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some seal statues that weren\u2019t here on my last visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Custom House steps, with it\u2019s statue declaring that this used to be Speaker\u2019s Square, where folks would come and orate or rant or whatever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Alber Clock. There used to be some cool fountains in front of it, but they\u2019re not there anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that, Penny went to her tattoo appointment and I went back to the flat to do some laundry and this blog post. Later, we\u2019ll head out for some dinner. And tomorrow, it\u2019s the train to Derry\/Londonderry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which should be cool.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was another travel day – Kilkenny to Dublin to Belfast.The plasce we\u2019re staying in Belfast is an AirBnB flat, just outside of the city centre. After getting settled, we went for a ramble around the neighbourhood to see where things were. We made our way down to the Cty Hall, and looked around to … Continue reading “Belfast Down Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[361,351],"tags":[116,262,359,93,360],"class_list":["post-2062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belfast-ireland-2024","category-ireland-2024","tag-albert-clock","tag-belfast","tag-big-fish","tag-city-hall","tag-george-street-market"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8tF5A-xg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rickneal.ca\/travelblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}