Belfast:

Trains & Boats & Planes – 2024

30 January 2025 | Transport

All three forms of transport featured in my 2024 travels and I posted a blog on my my favourite tube stations around the London underground train system. ▲ Trains no longer stop in Marceline, Missouri although lots of visitors come there for the Walt Disney Museum ...

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Other Places I Visited in 2024

24 January 2025 | Places

My 2024 travels featured walking in Australia (The Three Capes Track in Tasmania) and England (The Thames Path). My English travels also took me to that very popular tourist county of Cornwall. Before arriving in England I visited three interesting African countries: ...

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Cyprus Avenue, Cyprus Avenue again, Say Nothing

25 March 2019 | Media

▲ Back in 2015 I went to Belfast to see Van Morrison perform Cyprus Avenue – his wonderful  1968 track from Astral Weeks – on Cyprus Avenue. I’d already seen him run through Astral Weeks, that classic favourite, at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2009. In 2015 it w...

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Travelling Performances

31 July 2013 | Culture

Theatrically and operatically it’s been a travelling five days in (and out) of London. I’ve already reported on going to the Congo when Maureen and I saw A Season in the Congo on Saturday (Young Vic Theatre). I’ll be talking about the Congo in its latest incarnation a...

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More Aerial Views

1 September 2011 | Transport

◄ There have been some great ‘views out the window’ this year and flying to Belfast a couple of weekends ago certainly provided a few. Like this view of the Isle of Man, half way between Ireland and England. You can just about imagine where the TT motorcycle track goe...

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