Belfast City Trip DAY 1: 8am: Left Galway City for Belfast City, arriving around 13.30, commencing our bus tour at 14.00 which included the following points of interest: Stop 1: Castle Place Departure Point Carrolls Gift Shop, Albert Clock, Starbucks Coffee and the Award Winning Fish City Stop 2: Customs House Square Big Fish Sculpture, Customs House and McHughs Bar Stop 3: SSE Arena Odyssey Pavilion, Premier Inn Hotel, W5 Interactive Discovery Centre, Odyssey Cinemas and Ten Pin Bowling Stop 4: Titanic Belfast Titanic Visitor Attraction - The World's Largest Titanic Attraction, SS Nomadic, The Wee Tram and Cast & Crew 1.Boomtown Belfast 2.The Shipyard 3.The Launch 4.The Fit-out 5.The Maiden Voyage 6.The Sinking 7.The Aftermath 8.Myths & Reality 9.Titanic Beneath and Ocean Exploration Centre Stop 5: HMS Caroline Hop-off for HMS Caroline which saw combat in the First World War and Titanic Dock & Pumphouse Stop 6: Parliament Buildings (East Belfast) Stormont Estate (Stop only operates 10:00am - 3:30pm daily), Stormont Hotel, CS Lewis/Campbell College Stop 7: Belmont Road Park Avenue Hotel, Shops, and award winning Restaurants and Cafes fit for foodies! Stop 8: Holywood Road The Landmark CS Lewis Square featuring 7 sculptures and the EastSide Visitor Centre Stop 9: Lower Newtownards Road Known in Belfast as Freedom Corner with Wall Murals, the Titanic Mural & The Yardmen Statue Stop 10: St. George’s Market UK’s Best Large Indoor Market 2014, Variety Market on Fri, City Food & Craft Market on Sat & Mixed Market on Sun Stop 11: Belfast City Hall Visit Belfast City Hall which is open for free guided tours Monday through Saturday, Titanic Memorial Garden Stop 12: Great Victoria Street Irish Tour Tickets Tourist Information Centre, Crown Bar, Europa Hotel, Bus and Train Station and Grand Opera House Stop 13: Dublin Road Etap Hotel, Movie House Cinema, The Five Points Whiskey & Alehouse & Filthy McNasty Pub & Club Stop 14: Shaftsbury Square Shaftesbury Square, Bradbury Place, Laverys Bar and The Alibi Bar & Club Stop 15: University Road Queen’s University, Botanic Gardens and Ulster Museum (entrance to the gardens and museum is free) Stop 16: Eglantine Avenue Windsor Park - National Football Stadium, Malone Lodge Hotel and Lisburn Road Shopping Stop 17: Falls Road Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich (Café and Tourist Information) and St. Mary’s Teacher Training College Stop 18: Falls Memorial Garden Bobby Sands Wall Mural and Sinn Fein Centre and Gift Shop Stop 19: International Wall Murals Falls Road International Wall Murals, Peace Walls and St. Peter’s Catholic Cathedral Stop 20: Spectrum Tourist Information Centre Spectrum Tourist Information Centre and Shankill Road Loyalist Wall Murals Stop 21: Shankill Memorial Garden WWII Murals, Queen Elizabeth II Mural and Bayardo Remembrance Garden Stop 22: Crumlin Road Crumlin Road Gaol Visitor Attraction and Conference Centre and the Old Courthouse Stop 23: Donegall Street Clifton St. Poor House, Cathedral Quarter, St. Anne’s Cathedral, St. Patricks Church and Northern Ireland War Memorial 8pm: Left Belfast for Dundalk, arriving around 9.30pm at The Lismar Guest House, Stapleton Place, Dundalk Dublin City Trip DAY 2: After a full Irish breakfast at the B&B, we left for Carlingford in Co.Louth around 10.30am arriving at 11.30am, we went on to Greenore later and then left Dundalk around 2pm. Around 4pm we arrived at Kilmainham Jail, Dublin for a prebooked tour which finished around 5pm. Once the tour was over I headed back to Galway City, arriving home around 8.30pm. Another successful tour for thehappywanderer... Photos of this trip available here...
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August 2017
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