time again tilting at the song a song for the title of my blog. This time Katie Melua is it with "Belfast". I'm not usually a fan of the links, but the song is really worth listening to. You find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcRytwTjLtg
One suspects already now that I've spent this weekend in the city of the conflict. Last time I talked about a city that is not what they might imagine. It is in fact so that the main road, botanical garden, university and the city a total recall not a city where more than 3,500 people a religious and territorial conflict have fallen to the victims. But once you go off the tourist paths marked out, looks at the Peace Wall (Or Irish Berlin Wall, as it is called by locals) and the area closer to, so a lot will become clearer. Police cars equipped with bomb protection, roads equal more empty than in other cities to paint the telltale tattoos not on the forearms of the population and not least the friendly but firm advice of the police to the funeral march for the victims of the hunger strike of imprisoned IRA attend too close then a somewhat clearer picture of the city, the conflicts still smolder always in the background.
Ulster Museum 
The Europe Hotel is a victim of the most bomb attacks
funeral march for the starving in prison hunger strikes of IRA
Belfast is known for the murals on the walls of houses of Protestants and Catholics . That is clearly a Protestant and Unionist.
Nevertheless, I had a beautiful Time. This was perhaps because in the time when I visited the city the "Fool's Festival" (in German: hard fools) access was in the mashing up of several jugglers, comedians and artists to town. The receptionists at the hostel were of course German and guests mostly Canadian descent. Nothing new in that regard.
The hostel was located in a nice area and easy to reach, but my bed was a bit strange, it was not really on the ground, not really in the air (about 40 cm felt about me was another bed, the rust is durchbog when my Zimmergenoose was in it - so I'm not claustrophobic, but ....). Well, I had a pleasant weekend.
Oh, and I saw Iron Man on Friday 2nd I envy anyone who has to look at him in German. An appeal to German sales companies: Listening to synchronize films used subtitle! There is a reason that the Dutch speak better English than we do.
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