Sunday in Belfast

We are in our 101st country -- Northern Ireland. Six of the 9 counties in Ulster make up this tiny Protestant country. If all 9 counties had been included then the Catholics would have had the majority thereby negating the reason for the division!

I did not know what to expect other than rain as the average temperature is between 50 and 60 and it rains all the time. So we had a sunny day! (for a little while anyway...then the sky clouded over and it started to sprinkle).

We saw the City Hall, downtown, the University of Ulster, and the "murals" that talk about the troubles. The material the ship gave us on Belfast did not even mention there is an age-old battle here between the Protestents and the Catholics.

We also visited the new Titantic Museum that opened this year. It is a beautiful modern aluminum structure that tells the story of the building and eventual sinking of the Titantic. I was most fascinated with the building of the behemoth and now I would like to see how a modern ocean going vessel is made. I'm sure the advances in technology would be interesting to see.