Tag: 27. Mai 2012

Tourist Tour

This weekend was the most awesome that we had here in Belfast. The sun still shining the whole days without any clouds. So we (altogether 8 persons) decided to make a tourist trip to the Giant’s Causeway. This is declared a UNESCO World Heritage and is a very famous place of interest. The tour started in the morning at 9:15 a.m. in a very small and uncomfortable bus. But this bus drove us only to the right bus and started with a little delay. First short stop was at Carrickfergus a few miles northern of Belfast to visit the Carrickfergus Castle. Nothing very special. The female busdriver and tourist guide in one told us a lot about the sights at the tour. A very important tourist stop was at the north coast: Carrick-a-Rede. This rope bridge links the mainland to a tiny island.  The next big stop was the Old Bushmills Distillery. Here I bought something for someone. Then we arrived wet through with perspiration thanks to the bad air condition in the bus the final target: Giant’s Causeway. Here you can see a lot of hexagonal stones which are arranged like a puzzle. This is a very amazing place because the incurrence is unknown. At the evening we arrived sunburned and exhausted in Belfast. Overall a great and interesting tour.

Enjoy the Saturday… Chill out @ Botanic Gardens

Yeah, the saturday was pretty nice and it was almost funny like every week in Belfast. We were walked to the Botanic Gardens with my roommates and with a lot of sunshine, but it was sometimes too much, because we went through some glasshouses and it was very hot with so damp air. When we reached the exit to go outside from one of this glasshouse, the air around us feel like so cold, but it wasn’t cold, it was only the great difference between those temperatures. However it was pretty nice and there were so much people, it was like a open-air swimming pool in Germany, but there wasn’t any kind of this one. That was so crazy, but pretty cool. Well, we have decided to chill out a little bit in this park and took some pictures. „Enjoy the Saturday… Chill out @ Botanic Gardens“ weiterlesen

Sunshine in Belfast ☼

Hi guys,

sunshine, oh yes, we have now much sunshine in Belfast.
After 4 weeks bad weather, have we now get sunshine, 20°C in the shadow. Thank you dear weather.
In my bed room in the apartment are 27°C, due to our pitch of the roof. Of course we have opened the windows often, but this didn’t helped much.

On work I have the opposite, it is cold inside (on the basis of the air conditioner) and the sun shining on me (a very interesting feeling :D).
After the work, we enjoy the weather.

I hope the good weather remains. 🙂

On Friday we have us thought, that we go in a Pub. The first idea was the „Secret Garden“, but at this weather was it full and it was a big queue before the Pub.  So, we are gone in the „Laverys“ and have once again played billiard.

On the work are not special things happens. I work in the moment on a new Quiz-Game. I think, I come back to this topic in a later post. The work self is still interesting and makes very fun.

Best regards from the sunny Belfast
Benjamin

Party + fire alarm = restless night

Today in the morning … at 1 a.m. … some guys and girls started a party on the 1st floor with extremly loud techno and dance music. When I look out of my bedrooms window I see the balcony where they were dancing and screaming. I tried to sleep but I couldn’t so I decided to use my Ohropax but as I put them in my ears I noticed that I was still able to hear that sound. So I was hoping that they would be done with the party soon. That was around 4 a.m. and the party was still going on. So I thought of going into the livingroom to get my sleep there. As I entered the room I turned back to my bedroom because it wouldn’t had made much sense. Everywhere was loud music to hear. At around 5:30 a.m. I suddenly fall asleep but only for 30 minutes. And the music was going on and on. After I took a shower at 8:30 a.m. (music was still playing) I wanted to take my breakfast but …

Suddenly there appeared a really nasty sound. I was like: „What the hell?!“ When I left the house I noticed that it was the fire alarm which made that noise. The guy in the reception wasn’t there so after a while someone decided to call the fire department and ask for a solution because there were no smoke to see and no smell of burned stuff. A few minutes later someone managed to silent the alarm. And guess what … the music was still playing!

After my breakfast I went to Dun Laoghaire with my parents. It was a pretty day and I also got sun burned. When I came back at 17:20 to the apartments the music was still playing. But hey, they turned the music off at 17:30. Now it’s time for a long sleep.

The fifth week will be ended, but what coming at last weeks? It will be seen.

Hi guys,
it’s me again, our fifth week will be end and it was a really nice one, of course the weather had a good timing to be a beautyfull sunny week. At the last three days of the working week, it was very relaxed and have a nice introducing by Kevin in the programming languages ASP.NET & C# for developing webpages, because I want to use this languages for developing project in my community, too. At the beginning of this week, it was something happend in my project at my work, of course there was a some upgrading problemes on Microsoft Dynamics Server, but I have solved this problemes with manually upgrade steps and now I working for the last steps to finish this project. Well, the week was really funny and interesting. At last one, I have got new contacts at Volunteer Now which I like to hold above this nice work placement at Belfast. By the way, I think you have enjoyed this week, too.