March 24, 2010 | Posted by Mark Taylor
After two years of spinning next to city hall, the Big Wheel is finally coming down on 11 April. The wheel was a major tourist success but it also had its detractors. In November 2009 the Belfast Titanic Society complained the wheel blocked access to the Titanic Memorial. And it prevented them from laying a [...]
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December 13, 2009 | Posted by Mark Taylor
A recent travel write-up noted how much Belfast has changed since peace began. “When I first visited Belfast in the early 1980s it was an uninviting destination by day and a ghost town by night. The Provos were blowing up the place and their Loyalist street rivals were retaliating with murderous intent. Dickens once described [...]
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