Made it to Belfast in officialy Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein won the election last week for the first time. No more politics. Off to a Titanic dinner after an 8 hour day of tours, beautiful landscapes and we are here!!! ! And we passed a cargo ship named Jenny Jones - first one was built in 1847 - 100 years before I was born and they kept the name!
These are a few from the Titanic Belfast museum - the city where the Titanic was built!
The wider reddish line divides the 2 places and Belfast can be seen on the right and it's really close to Scotland - about 12 miles I guess to the right.
The Queen is gone off the currency in Northern Ireland.
This is the Titanic museum and yes it is very modern and super interesting and not to be missed.
Pretty easy to always see our tour buses as often they have the company name on it and neat pictures of places all over the world.
Lots of rebellions, wars and land feuds over time and it has settled but there are still some bad feelings but hoping the massive violent protests will cease.
More in the Belfast Titanic museum and yes we did see a lot of people smoking all over the place.
Interesting as my Grandma Schultz's maiden name was Wolff and supposedly from Ireland and this was a huge company Harland and Wolff and they were shipbuilders.
This was a clock set to the time of the sinking of the Titanic.
The office of one of the important people on the ship.
And a pretty fancy dining room!
I'm sure everyone has heard of John Jacob Astor and he did have an affair or two.
And this is the chauffeur of Guggenheim the American millionaire.
The street art is beautiful and lots of it is political.
Once you got in our bathroom at the hotel and shut the door this is what sees you. At first I got a little freaked as I thought it was a mirror and my hair went from white to the previous dark brown in my young days!
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