Belfast - Urban hike

March 12th, 2020

Today I took the bus from Dublin up to Belfast which was 2 hours and 15 minutes. I started my Urban walk including the following:

My first stop was city hall.

As stated in Maps.me

"Plans for the City Hall began in 1888 when Belfast was awarded city status by Queen Victoria. This was in recognition of Belfast's rapid expansion and thriving linen, rope-making, shipbuilding and engineering industries. During this period Belfast briefly overtook Dublin as the most populous city in Ireland."

They have many memorials surrounding the city hall including a memorial to the Titanic which lists all of the members that were on that ship that had died that day.

This is a picture of the Titanic museum from the opposite bank of River Lagan.

There is a big fish sculpture beside the Lagan River. It was created by John Kindness, and the most interesting thing about this fish are its blue scales, which are made up of ceramic tiles describing different scenes from the city's history.

The Titanic museum was extremely interesting. It took me about two-and-a-half hours going through the different levels from the the birth of the idea of building the Titanic to the the sad ending. Part of the final display included the Halifax graveyard as part of the story.

After visiting the Museum, part of the tour included going on the SS Nomadic which is the only surviving sister of the Titanic series.

They have this ship in a dry dock and unfortunately I could not go on the deck because of the rain which made it too slippery. They were worried about someone falling ... but addy least I got to see the three different floor levels inside the ship.

First class section.

Fancy stairs to next floor.

The Albert Memorial Clock (more commonly referred to as the Albert Clock ) is a clock tower situated at Queen's Square in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was completed in 1869 and is one of the best known landmarks of Belfast.

The Europa Hotel is a four-star hotel in Great Victoria Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Opened in 1971, it has hosted presidents, prime ministers and celebrities. It is known as the "most bombed hotel in Europe" and the "most bombed hotel in the world" after having suffered 36 bomb attacks during the Troubles.