Category: Northern Ireland

Jonny Blair lives a lifestyle of travel and hails from Bangor Northern Ireland a pastie supper town

Friday’s Featured Food: Northern Irish Pastie Supper🟡🍟🥔in Bangor, Northern Ireland🟥🤚☘️

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“Wee pastie supper please love” – Any given Northern Irishperson of a Friday night. Today’s Friday’s Featured Food is a personal favourite of mine as it’s from my home country – the Northern Irish pastie supper. From my experience most travellers forget Northern Ireland exists, some even forget that it’s on the island of Ireland Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Northern Irish Pastie Supper🟡🍟🥔in Bangor, Northern Ireland🟥🤚☘️[…]

The Most Popular Tourist Attraction in Belfast, Northern Ireland!!

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First off, Belfast the capital city of Northern Ireland is a wonderful place to visit. Within this historic city there is a cultured past, a blossoming present and a bright future. A unique mix of British and Irish influence is evident throughout the city. While the British flag flies nonchalantly over the City Hall (pictured Read more about The Most Popular Tourist Attraction in Belfast, Northern Ireland!![…]

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Manic Street Preachers – International Treasures: Tokyo, Japan🗾🇯🇵18.05.2012

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Manic Street Preachers first came into my ears about 20 years ago, in 1992 when on a chance radio listen, I was enthused by their hit single “Suicide Is Painless” (Theme From M.A.S.H.). At the time I didn’t realise it was a cover version, nor knew anything about this band. As the 90s progressed I Read more about Manic Street Preachers – International Treasures: Tokyo, Japan🗾🇯🇵18.05.2012[…]

The World From My Bedroom: Aged 10, Marlo, Bangor, Northern Ireland (1990)

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This post really takes me back and I am so glad I found these photos last month at my Mum and Dad’s house on a rare return to Northern Ireland. I found them in a box in the garage…above is the amazing view out of my bedroom window as a 10 year old. We moved Read more about The World From My Bedroom: Aged 10, Marlo, Bangor, Northern Ireland (1990)[…]

We Are Hong Kong Northern Ireland Supporters Club!

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The Hong Kong Northern Ireland Supporters Club was successfully launched on Leap Year Day (Wednesday 29th February 2012) in Mong Kok, Kowloon. Including one member from the Far East NISC, a turn up of 6 on the night, plus 2 randoms saw Hong Kong defeat Taiwan 5-1 at home in a comprehensive friendly victory against Read more about We Are Hong Kong Northern Ireland Supporters Club![…]

Thirsty Thursdays: Finn McCool’s Irish Pub – Quito!

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The very words “Finn McCool’s Irish Pub” will linger forever in my own memory and those of 5 other Northern Ireland fans. The reason being that back in 2005 we launched the glamorous and innovative South of England Northern Ireland Supporters Club in a bar of that very name in the seaside town of Weymouth Read more about Thirsty Thursdays: Finn McCool’s Irish Pub – Quito![…]

My Family Don’t Seem So Familiar: 2 Years Apart and Hong Kong Reunion

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As you get older and life changes you find you see your family less and less, unless of course you have a wife and kids of your own, which I don’t. I emigrated from the UK finally in 2009. That was the last time i saw my Mum and Dad. However it was a full Read more about My Family Don’t Seem So Familiar: 2 Years Apart and Hong Kong Reunion[…]

Braving Bogota – Arrival in Colombia *

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My entrance into Colombia couldn’t have been more dramatic. Actually, of course it could have been, but it wasn’t. If none of that makes sense, then neither does somehow boarding a flight you weren’t booked on within 20 minutes of a flight you were booked on with no rational explanation. I was happy. One of Read more about Braving Bogota – Arrival in Colombia *[…]