Let me start by posting a picture from Friday night, outside Taylor's. I forgot to do so in my last post, but here it is. The whole group there on the evening, with Meagan (our tour director) in the forefront. It really was a great tour and evening.
Now, as I start the last couple of posts from this walk-about Europe trip, I'm going to organize them a little differently. It's the end of my final day in Belfast. On Sunday, I wandered around the city some, on Monday I did an all-day bus tour (that will be in the next post), on Tuesday I woke up with vertigo (it happens every once in a while) so mostly spent the day in my room - and got some work and blog posts done, and today I wandered more around Belfast.
So, this post really reflects Sunday and today, and the final one will be the bus tour day. There are just so many pictures from that day!
My hotel here is just off the Belfast area called City Centre. It's just another city, and you know I prefer the county. But there were some pretty interesting buildings that I saw on the first full day here, including City Hall.
Church only a couple of blocks from my hotel, and the Grand Opera House.
City Hall photos
The third picture is one of the old entrances to Marks & Spencer - a UK department store. I mostly went in to see the food level. I find it fascinating that some UK department stores have a grocery store in them. M&S is known for a lot of their own brands.
You know I don't like to shop much (all I really bought on this trip were a few refrigerator magnets and a packet of Irish wild flower seeds. Oh, and some absolutely gorgeous gold and diamond tree of life earrings - but that last thing is an anomaly for me. I spent more on those than any piece of jewelry I have ever bought. I think I'm worth it though!
Today I went out into the city again. This time I walked to city centre first, but then decided that I wanted to see the waterfront and the Royal Botanical Gardens. I think I walked about 5 miles today, but it was worth it.
Just a very few sights from around the streets I took to get to the Botanical Gardens. Note the middle picture - Ulster Hall - a very well-known venue for music events built over 160 years ago. Among other things, it features one of the oldest examples of a functioning classic English pipe organ.
From the RBG
Trees and flowers (as so often seen in the blog)
And finally, the Panoramic Wheel and a couple of pictures from when I was at the top.
We have had uncharacteristic weather since I arrived here (I appear to have brought it with me from Ireland) and there has been bright sunshine most of the time, with temps in the mid-70s. How lucky!
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