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Giro d’Italia Grande Partenza in Belfast

Posted on February 19, 2014June 25, 2015 by Belfast Guide

From May 8th until May 10th it is time for a fantastic event for cycling enthusiasts. Giro d’Italia Grande Partenza is coming to Belfast, and there will be three routes available; Belfast, Armagh and Dublin.

More than 200 bicyclists will come to participate in this event from all across the world, and the schedule for the event is the following.

Giro d’Italia Grande Partenza in Belfast stages

Thursday 8 May
Pre-race events, team presentation, showcase event at Belfast City Hall (free admission, ticketing details to follow)

Friday 9 May
Stage One – Start Titanic Quarter, finish Belfast City Hall

Saturday 10 May
Stage Two – Start Titanic Quarter, finish North Queen Street, Belfast

Sunday 11 May
Stage Three – Start The Mall, Armagh, finish Dublin city centre

Stage One

Stage One of the Giro D’Italia in Northern Ireland is a team time trial (21.7km) through Belfast, taking the following route:

Titanic Belfast
Newtownards Road
Stormont
Queen’s Bridge
Ormeau Road
Stranmillis
Belfast City Hall.

Stage Two

Stage Two begins and ends in Belfast with a 218km route that passes through:Titanic Quarter

Antrim Road
Antrim
Ballymena
Bushmills
The Giant’s Causeway
Cushendall
Larne
Whitehead
Carrickfergus
North Queen Street, Belfast.

Source for stages and directions – visit-belfast.com

Christmas Market in Belfast

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Belfast Guide

The Northern Ireland’s capital’s habits are very similar to the British traditions. Here also Santa Claus or Winter Father puts presents into the socks and the Christmas menu are like in England too. Moreover Northern Irish people start preparation more weeks before Christmas, for example the preparation of Plum Pudding and Mince Pie need weeks. Irish people are deeply Catholics, so they also have Christmas tree; moreover evergreens have spiritual connection with winter equinox. The official holiday start is 13 December here, this is “Little Christmas”. In this time decorating is in full swing.

Irish people naturally go to midnight mass, but before they leave the house, they leave a glass of milk or whiskey on the table for Santa, and carrot for reindeer’s. Real fun naturally starts on 25 December until 12 January.

Belfast Christmas markets are very similar to the British ones. These events are also beautiful with amazing light decorations, and goods are really fantastic; Christmas decorations, tiny souvenirs, craft things and delicious foods welcome visitors.

Where are they exactly? The most popular Christmas market in the Northern Irish capital is Christmas Continental Market near to City Hall. Besides the beautiful products, children can meet with Santa Claus, even they can write letters to him and put it into his own mailbox, and Santa will answer for every letter until 18 December.

Celebrate in Northern Ireland! Have a great holiday!

Merry Christmas from Belfast

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Belfast Guide

We just wanted to take the opportunity to wish all our readers and visitors a very Merry Christmas! We hope you will have a wonderful Christmas season with blessings, presents and lots of fun!

If you will come to Belfast for Christmas make sure to enjoy, book your hotel and do not forget to make table reservation in Belfast restaurants as soon as possible!

Late night art tours in Belfast

Posted on March 22, 2013March 20, 2013 by Belfast Guide

The capital of North-Ireland, the wonderful Belfast offers several program opportunities to tourists, it could be day or night. There are several museums and galleries in the city which wait for the visitors with lauds of great exhibitions. If you like culture, you would like the next program description, especially if you like night fun too.

There are several museums and gallery in Belfast which invite people to an exciting cultural program on the first Thursday of every month. You can choose the program in walking or bus version too. The program starts on 6.30 PM until 9 PM, so you won’t be tired next day. The walking late night art tours’ meeting point is at the Exposed Gallery at 6.30 PM, and the end is at The Black Box at 8.30 PM. The bus tour starts at The Naughton Gallery at Queens University at 6.30 PM and ends at the Black Box around 9 PM. The bus tour isn’t free, but it’s a more convenient way of the tour, because you have an ordered bus what drive you from A to B. For the bus trip you can buy tickets in person in the Belfast Welcome Centre. The tours’ extra service in addition to the exciting night time is, visitors can hear different artists’ speeches.

Do not miss this interesting program in Belfast on the first Thursday of every month!

If you want to see UK TV online from abroad (only available to people in the UK), read this!

Posted on October 30, 2012October 17, 2022 by Belfast Guide

If you are outside the UK and would like to see some kind of online broadcast, television show or similar online which is only available to people inside the UK our friends in the London Guide have written an interesting article which will help you out. Often television channels close down their online streams to people outside the UK, and thus you get some error message, a copyright message or something else telling you that you can not watch this live stream. What is the solution?

Read the following article about how to get an UK IP address, and get smarter and fix the problem within shortly!

We think this article will be useful to many of our friends in Belfast as well, since the city and Northern Ireland is a part of the UK, so when you go on a holiday to somewhere else, or maybe even move to somewhere else, with this information you can watch quite a lot of live streams from the UK still, wherever you are in the world! Enjoy!