A Day To Remember

Belfast has a Titanic Quarter. It contains the Titanic Exhibition centre, Titanic Studios, and Titanic house, amongst other venues named Titanic, that have nothing to do with the ship, except being near whet the ship was launched. One thing that does have a lot to do with it though is Titanic Belfast - the museum dedicated to the Titanic. 

We were stopped at the entrance to take a photo in front of a green screen. We ended up with a nice holiday snap, of us in front of the Titanic. The guy in the photo shop was complementary about Flick's R2D2 bag.

flickums was very brave and went with me on the shipyard ride. A ride in little cars that go around the shipyard exhibit. Flickums was a little scared because they do go write high. She also braved the glass floored display sowing the wreck from above.

Stopped for lunch. Flickums took a bit longer than she might have done because she had to geek about Game Of Thrones with the chap at the Cafeteria, who liked her T-shirt.

The front part was in surprisingly good condition. The back part less so. A helpful guide explained that the front was essentially full of water, and the back half was filed with air, so was crushed like a Coke can. 

The ticket also included a walk around the Nomadic - one of the tender boats that ferried first and second class passengers to the Titanic (third class were mostly kept a safe distance away from the delicate sensibilities of the higher echelons, and were usually transported by a different boat). 

It's nice to look around. Lots of information about the history of the boat.

Returned to town to acquire postcards, and for Flickums to get yet more Game Of Thrones tat.

Much lighter day than yesterday.