One of my favourite places to visit when I’m home is St. George’s Market. A stone’s throw from Belfast Central station, it’s a great place to wile away the hours. Open Friday – Sunday you can start your day with breakfast from one of the many stalls – a good idea if you’ve been sampling the local pubs and clubs the night before. And it’s not just local food you’ll find there – if you’ve a hankering for paella, for example, they’ve got you covered.
One of my happiest memories from 2015 was a trip I took with my friends, Sophie and Sophie, to Reykjavik, Iceland. We met back in 2005 when we were English Language Assistants living and working in Germany. We wanted to celebrate the tenth year of our friendship with a trip, since we travelled a lot together in during our year abroad.
I’d always wanted to visit Iceland and we had all heard good things from a flurry of friends and colleagues who had already been so we got ourselves booked and off we flew to the land of fire and ice.
Stormont, or the ‘House on the Hill’ as it’s also known in Northern Ireland, is home to our sometimes turbulent NI Assembly – the closest equivalent is Parliament. Situated on the outskirts of Belfast, in the grounds of Stormont Estate, its position at the top of the hill affords it some stunning views of the city.
The grounds of the Estate are free to visit and open all year round. A popular spot with runners, walkers and wet noses, it’s a great place to practise some nature photography.
Hello and a very happy New Year to you all! I hope the heads aren’t too fuzzy today and that the celebrations were befitting of the great year that lies ahead!
I don’t know about you but I’m not quite ready to wave cheerio to 2015 just yet; at least not without looking back at a few of my favourite moments of the year first.
If there’s one thing London excels at it’s blinging itself up come party season. Of course, some areas of the city are better at it than others; the trees at Canary Wharf underground station, for example, look as though someone just threw lights at them from afar and turned their heel on their handiwork not long after.
Tales of adventure 