Our Perceptions are Challenged in Belfast - Aug 23, 2019
Early morning peeking out the window and saw this as we sailed up a channel. After breakfast we will be setting foot on Ireland soil for the first time ever. Just a comment on the weather. It turns out that it rains 153 days a year in Belfast, so our guides were teasing us that with the warm and sunny weather forecast for today we wouldn't really be experiencing Belfast. The first stop of the day, if you've been here you know what it is, if you haven't it's a museum that many people didn't want built because they thought no one would come. How very very wrong they were, with nearly 1 million visitors a year it's the Titanic Museum built right next to the site where the Titanic was actually built here in a Belfast shipyard. I happened to see this docent and asked him a question. The result was about 20 minutes of him pointing things out up on the fourth floor and a number of other people joining in. He had many stories about the building of t...