Belfast
Posted by: David Bunch
Blogger was down during my window of opportunity last night, so I am blogging early this morning before we leave to return to Dublin.
Yesterday we went to Belfast and had a great time. Very European in the old Europe style. Lots of old architecture every where. One of the things I really was looking forward to seeing was the murals painted on walls during "The Troubles". Matt did take us into one Catholic neighborhood and we drove past a few murals but it appeared to me that they mostly dealt with world politics in general (something about Bush and America) rather than the politics of Belfast. Of course, that was only one neighborhood and one wall.
As European as Belfast is, one of the first things we did when we got there was to go to an American mall and eat Burger King and Subway in the food court! It felt like home!
Unfortunately, we didn't get to see anything C.S. Lewis. My quick research before we left for the day revealed that his boyhood home is privately owned, so there's not much to see there. There is a bronze statue of Lewis and a wardrobe in East Belfast, but by the time we found out where it was it was late, raining, and cold. And with two toddlers among us we just had to pass on it. : (
There is a man in the Gilford church named Eamon who is into video editing as a hobby. So he met us in Belfast and took some video footage of us walking thru the city so that he can put together some video clips for us to use in raising Partners In Missions pledges. He's going with us to Dublin today to take more footage. That really excited me!
And amid all of this excitement God has really been confirming to us that Ireland is indeed the field that he has for us to labor in. : )
We plan to stay in Dublin tonight, so if that does happen I won't be able to blog again until Wednesday evening. Hope to talk to you then!
Blogger was down during my window of opportunity last night, so I am blogging early this morning before we leave to return to Dublin.
Yesterday we went to Belfast and had a great time. Very European in the old Europe style. Lots of old architecture every where. One of the things I really was looking forward to seeing was the murals painted on walls during "The Troubles". Matt did take us into one Catholic neighborhood and we drove past a few murals but it appeared to me that they mostly dealt with world politics in general (something about Bush and America) rather than the politics of Belfast. Of course, that was only one neighborhood and one wall.
As European as Belfast is, one of the first things we did when we got there was to go to an American mall and eat Burger King and Subway in the food court! It felt like home!
Unfortunately, we didn't get to see anything C.S. Lewis. My quick research before we left for the day revealed that his boyhood home is privately owned, so there's not much to see there. There is a bronze statue of Lewis and a wardrobe in East Belfast, but by the time we found out where it was it was late, raining, and cold. And with two toddlers among us we just had to pass on it. : (
There is a man in the Gilford church named Eamon who is into video editing as a hobby. So he met us in Belfast and took some video footage of us walking thru the city so that he can put together some video clips for us to use in raising Partners In Missions pledges. He's going with us to Dublin today to take more footage. That really excited me!
And amid all of this excitement God has really been confirming to us that Ireland is indeed the field that he has for us to labor in. : )
We plan to stay in Dublin tonight, so if that does happen I won't be able to blog again until Wednesday evening. Hope to talk to you then!
