Or should I say, „the firewalled city“ ???
I was wondering how they administer this…
But the solution was pretty obvious, they had a „WIRED“ PC repair shop, which surely also does firewall configuration support and such, right inside the city walls! You know, those PC-guys can fix anything…
But let’s get back to where we left off in the previous article.
After having spent most of the night in the lobby and everybody having a good time as well as a story to tell, there was the morning after…
As an investigation revealed, these poor bastards unfortunately seem to have confused „water“ with „vodka“ while doing their grocery shopping. The cheap price might have been the misleading factor here…
So instead of replenishing their water supply, they dehydrated even more and therefore were in a coma-like state early in the morning.
To make the confusion perfect, after the „staff“ turned up to collect the keys from the guests leaving, they startled everybody by asking: „Are these guys paying customers and why do they sleep in the lobby?“
After a quick „Tesco’s finest“ breakfast I was happy to still have some time to walk back through the whole city before leaving.
On a Sunday morning the whole city seemed to be a ghost town. All streets were empty and I met just one person on my way to the train station.
Instead of going back to Belfast directly, I’ve planned a stop in Antrim in order to visit the Lough Neagh lake. On my way there, again I had the opportunity to have an interesting conversation with the wife of a local politician from Derry, which allowed me to gain an even deeper insight into the social and political situation in Northern Ireland.
Antrim is a very nice place for a walk and apparently golf and water sports, but after arriving at the big lake there and seeing that the „Shane’s Castle Park“(on the right in the background of the above picture) was closed…
… I decided to take a walk through the woods nearby which was a very relaxing way of spending an very sunny day(at this point its really worth pointing out that we’ve been very lucky with the weather so far, especially on weekends).
On my way back I realized that after being in Derry, Antrim wouldn’t have much to offer worth staying there any longer. Having collected a lot of good memories and stories to share I headed to the train station towards „home“.
