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jcnporter wrote:

Waterbagel wrote:

jcnporter wrote:I'm assuming you'll be driving to Belfast from either Dingle or Donegal? Will you be staying in Belfast?

sort of! Dingle -> Dublin to drop the rental car off, then bus Dublin -> Belfast. we'll have one night in Belfast! we'll be in the cathedral quarter area july 23rd

I was going to say, the Cathedral Quarter is the place to stay/go out in the town. Loads of really nice restaurants and good bars.
For bars, the best in the Quarter are The Spaniard, The Duke of York and The John Hewitt, (or all of them!, they're all just within minutes of each other), then a wee bit further away, The Deer's Head has a good rep, and then on the other side of Royal Avenue are White's Tavern, Kelly's Cellars and The Sunflower. The Ulster Sports Club is the main young folk/hipster music venue in the area as well, if you fancy that.
For food, I haven't been everywhere in the area (and I'm not in town as much as I'd like, so not totally up to date!) but can definitely recommend - for fine dining, The Muddler's Club with a Michelin Star (but book well in advance). Cheaper but decent are The Waterman, Six by Nico or Taylor and Clay in The Bullitt Hotel, or the Mourne Seafood bar by Kelly's Cellars. Again, try and book in advance, but you could be OK mid-week. There's also Common Market for cheaper eating (it's an indoor seating area surrounded by food and drink stalls) and a lot of the bars will do good food as well.
There's plenty more further afield, round the town, but if you don't want to taxi it, a short walking distance in the Cathedral Quarter will get you to all of the above and more, which is more than enough for one night - have a great time!

Waterbagel wrote:we managed:
- sunflower + some pizza from out back
- madden’s (recc from someone we had a couple pints with in Donegal town)
- kelly’s cellar
- ended at Duke of York, the lady got to hear a couple of her favorite Pogues songs live, so really i think that nailed it

thanks again for the reccs!! i can tell we have a lot more to see of Belfast

off to Glasgow (for only one night unfortunately), a couple nights in Mallaig via the west highland line, then 3 nights in Edinburgh

we’ve been delighted by absolutely everything - the places, the people, the sights to see, the food and drink, just.. everything really! had me looking at visa/residency requirements late one night hahaha


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Waterbagel wrote:oh! and how could i forget - we DID make it to red moss nature preserve, we DID enjoy it, i had my first pork pie as we played red moss and up the march bank as we walked to, around, and from the preserve from Balerno

GOOD shout, a_northern_soul! thank you for the tip! never would have come across that myself. our favorite day of the trip, truly! even as we got soaked through to the bone, no matter how waterproof our rain jackets claimed to be

A_Northern_Soul wrote:Glad you had a good time! I should probably have warned you about the weather though

What else dd you get up to in Edinburgh?

Waterbagel wrote:

A_Northern_Soul wrote:Glad you had a good time! I should probably have warned you about the weather though

What else dd you get up to in Edinburgh?

honestly we thought we'd see that kind of weather a lot more! so used to living in an oven down here that even though everyone was apologizing for the heat and all that, we were like "are you kidding, this feels great!!"

a lot of walking around and getting a sense of the place - was a lot of fun to walk around in! the closes are cool. food, drink, sightseeing etc - the big callout is probably the walk we took from royal mile-ish where we were staying all the way out to Leith to enjoy a meal at The Kitchin (probably the finest of our lives!). after that, we walked the Waters of Leith up until we got tired enough to catch the bus out to Balerno

beautiful city, lovely stay, would do again

llydia wrote:Started running and doing quite a bit more outside things since we've been getting lovely weather here in Sheffield. I feels like its been the longest summer... EVER! But I can't complain since we will probably be freezing come the next few weeks...

Josh wrote:ISO dishwasher recommendations. Help.

A_Northern_Soul wrote:

llydia wrote:Started running and doing quite a bit more outside things since we've been getting lovely weather here in Sheffield. I feels like its been the longest summer... EVER! But I can't complain since we will probably be freezing come the next few weeks...

There should be a word for the feeling around climate change and the heat we've had this summer to describe how it is both completely and utterly terrifying AND really, really lovely!

The vast percentage of dishwashers are built with a metal inner body on three sides that fastens to a plastic bottom tray. Do not get one of these. They will work fine until one day they leak into their own electronics, or flood your kitchen.

Get one where the bottom surface of the inside of the dishwasher is formed of the same bit of metal as the sides, no join. Thank me later

Josh wrote:

The vast percentage of dishwashers are built with a metal inner body on three sides that fastens to a plastic bottom tray. Do not get one of these. They will work fine until one day they leak into their own electronics, or flood your kitchen.

Get one where the bottom surface of the inside of the dishwasher is formed of the same bit of metal as the sides, no join. Thank me later

Yes, can definitely confirm this. We're on our third dishwasher in 10 years. I went to Best Buy and Home Depot yesterday, neither carried Siemens brand anything. Maybe that's a US thing. Bosch seems like the best available, but of course it's $$$$