As of May 2022, there are 6 cities in Northern Ireland since Bangor was awarded city status after scrapping it out with 39 other towns and settlements in the UK to win city status as part of the Queen’s Jubilee (2022 Platinum Jubilee Civic Honours Competition). An honour that set the former seaside town of …
Anyone who has travelled to Ireland will tell you that this wonderful Island is one of the most mesmerizing places they’ve ever laid their eyes on. And it’s no wonder given it boasts wonderful nature, vivid culture, cheerful music, great food, and let’s not forget Guinness and fantastic whiskey (apparently the added “e” in Irish …
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To truly appreciate the greatness of a proper fry up, you really need to escape the safety of the basic English Breakfast and venture over borders to the morning staples of the wider British Isles. Journeying to Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland even, and probably not Wales. As only the way to truly appreciate the Best …
Covid has taken its toll on tourism and hospitality in Ireland (as expected), and after the lockdowns and strict restrictions, uncertainty still remains now, 2 years later, in 2022. But Ireland is slowly recovering and returning to normal, as lockdowns and restrictions have been lifted, and tourism is finally… hopefully, nearly, back to normal. Or …
Fanfan’s Thai Food Delivery is Currently Closed for the Winter. Check our Facebook for further details. During lockdown (2020) I started a local food blog (Fanfan’s Kitchen: Proper Thai Food) to share my passion for Asian and Thai food, along with weekly deliveries of home-cooked Thai food to keep friends and family entertained (and fed). …
Did you know you could circle the entire coast of Ireland following 4 interconnecting road trip routes? In Northern Ireland we have the Causeway Coastal Route and Mourne Coastal Route. These then connect to the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland’s Ancient East respectively. But here we are specifically covering Ireland’s Ancient East with a road …
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Hot Pots… our new going out! With the whole lockdown in the U.K, hot pots have become our new weekly date night, where we’d fire up our cheap and cheerful hot pot in the garden sun house, and enjoy with some drinks, some music, and a spicy Chinese Sichuan hot pot soup. We do occasionally …
Bangor Market takes place every Wednesday (07:00am to 13:00pm) in the ASDA car park next to Market Street. And were I to sum it up in one word it would probably be ‘underwhelming’. But it does have potential. And I guess there is a bit of cultural and tourist intrigue for those looking for ‘authentic’ …
We had planned on visiting every National Trust property in Northern Ireland through the space of a year, but with our stints in Asia, and the arrival of Coronavirus 6-months in, we didn’t quite make the full list. But we did cover the main sites of the National Trust, and covered many of them two …
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The origins of Halloween date way back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in) from around 2,000 years ago in Ireland and the U.K. (here’s the Wikipedia). But these days Halloween in Northern Ireland is more like the generic American Halloween, adopted through TV and movies more than likely, as things were a fair …
