Hello! This is not actually Greg. This is Greg’s wife. I have stolen the blog to write up a quick entry on our Dublin->Belfast train trip.
After some confusion regarding what bus route led to Connelly Station (one shopkeeper gave me walking directions, which would have been okay if we weren’t hauling luggage) we walked a few blocks, hopped a bus and reached the station.
The Enterprise train from Dublin to Belfast is pretty nice. It’s about your average sort of train ride, but there are a few neat touches like a map that lights up and shows your route. Greg’s a bigger train geek than I am, so I’ll let him add any additional points in a later entry. Along the way there was one really spectacular view of a huge valley with towns spread all across.
Belfast Central Station seemed bigger and more impressive than Conolly, although that could partly be because Dublin splits its train routes between two stations (we’ll use Heuston later when we go to Cork). Getting a bus to city central was quite easy (walk outside to marked stop, wait, find bus) and having all the buses end up at Donegall Square (right in front of city hall) meant it was always easy to find our way back on later trips.
We checked into the hotel and headed off to climb Cave Hill, which is wonderfully awesome and gets its own entry. It was also exhausting, so after we got back we grabbed a tasty dinner at Deane’s Deli (a bistro practically across the street from the hotel) and headed back to get some rest.
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