{"id":148,"date":"2014-05-08T17:10:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-05-08T17:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:14:17","slug":"belfasts-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/2014\/05\/08\/belfasts-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast&#8217;s different"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hi there!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I guess if someone travels to an other country, it&#8217;s impossible to not compare the surroundings to your home country. That&#8217;s why I can say: Belfast is\u00a0definitely different than Berlin. The left-hand driving aside, the first things I&#8217;ve noticed were some differences related to the traffic here in Belfast. First of all, the traffic lights here have 3 phases, one phase for each direction of motorized traffic and one phase whereby all pedestrian lights are green. I haven&#8217;t decided yet, if that&#8217;s a benefit, or not. Then, the most crossroads here have an extra area for bicyles, so if the green light goes on, the cyclists can start at first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/belfastmediagroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/CycleLane-1024x597.gif\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The next thing I&#8217;ve noticed were these kerbstones. Thanks to the high number of openings the possibility of a clogged drain is much lower. I think thats brilliant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W6ZVOLietQo\/U2fB3b238bI\/AAAAAAAAAGQ\/1V2nIBqbsmE\/s1600\/20140504_154353.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W6ZVOLietQo\/U2fB3b238bI\/AAAAAAAAAGQ\/1V2nIBqbsmE\/s1600\/20140504_154353.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the end one picture I made yesterday. &#8222;The irish weather is coming.&#8220; And yes, it CAME! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UqC27CYHpzk\/U2qsQuF_DwI\/AAAAAAAAALM\/fgI-ntNl124\/s1600\/20140506_200137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UqC27CYHpzk\/U2qsQuF_DwI\/AAAAAAAAALM\/fgI-ntNl124\/s1600\/20140506_200137.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there! I guess if someone travels to an other country, it&#8217;s impossible to not compare the surroundings to your home country. That&#8217;s why I can say: Belfast is\u00a0definitely different than Berlin. The left-hand driving aside, the first things I&#8217;ve noticed were some differences related to the traffic here in Belfast. First of all, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/2014\/05\/08\/belfasts-different\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eBelfast&#8217;s different\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belfast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}