Belfast Day 2
January 20, 2019
We started our day like yesterday…no plans whatsoever. Well not completely. We both wanted to go the City Hall and maybe do a guided tour, but that didn’t start until 12pm so we had time to kill and breakfast to find.
Like last night we kind of just walked until we found a place that one of us thought looked interesting/good. That’s how we found French Village just a short walk from our hostel. I would definitely recommend. I had the cinnamon apple pancakes which came nicely sprinkled with powder sugar and a little ramekin of syrup and Alaina had french toast with the same garnish.
We went to City Hall just to see the exhibitions that they had until the guided tour time . Let me say that this place was beautiful. It has 16 rooms to explore and two upper levels that only guided tours can go to. It was good to learn about some of the history of Belfast from its conception in earlier periods until now. We never did go on that guided tour…we lost track of time and the tour started exactly at 12pm.
Instead, we went in search of the Botanic Gardens and it was beautiful.
The plants were really nice to look at and smell. Plus, who doesn’t love a Victorian greenhouse? And what do we find on the other side of the gardens…the Ulster
The Ulster Museum is huge and had a little of everything. 4 floors of exhibitions on art, history, and nature. Truthfully, we only made it through two floors. We had been walking around for several hours without stopping and hadn’t eaten anything since breakfast and it was now closer to dinner.
We found Café Melrose. I had a chicken wrap that had fancy mayo with Asian slaw and cheese with a side of fries and a small salad.
We got back to the hostel and kind of chilled in the kitchen/ dining area with other guests and this beautiful boston terrier. I’ve forgotten the name of the dog, but he was friendly and belonged to the owner of the hostel.
At one point, he went and sat under a table where this guy was eating his salad. He had been pretty quiet and stoic, greeting the dog and then going back to eating. And then it happened.
The dog, the dog sitting under his table, farted and it was a loud one.
We all made eye contact and burst out in hysterics as this dog just casually gets up and walks from under the table. The guy tried not to laugh, but honestly, that was a movie moment.
Tomorrow it’s off to Derry/ Londonderry and the 1st day of Ulster orientation .
