Blustery Belfast

The weather here is nuts. You'll go out on a sunny morning and before you reach the bus stop it's hailing, by the time the bus arrives it's raining and by the time you mount the bus it's blue skies again. The wildest weather i've come across anywhere.

I'm staying with Heather at her boyfriend's grandma's house (Nanny Dunn), who has proven to be quite the host, the house is always full of family or at least grandkids staying over after a big night out.
Heather and I have been meeting up with Julia (who i met in Canada a few years ago)and spending days exploring Belfast as well as nearby cities and castles.
I'll likely be here another 2 weeks and we'll taking in some of the more cultural highlights, doing the renouned 'black taxi' tour of the Protestant/Catholic areas tomorrow, learning a bit more about the Troubles. Also looking forward to heading a bit further North and West, haven't seen proper Irish countryside yet, can't wait to get my first real glimpse of some rolling hills.

It's so nice to have a home base again, seems like everywhere I go i'm being looked after, with time to breathe and daydream, and there've been lots of 'em. I'm looking forward to many possibilities for the next few months, lots of good things growing. Lots of love. xo A