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The Ulster Museum has many exciting and interesting exhibits. Probably. We just went there to inspect the tapestry. And distracted only by an Oxfam, we set off.
This particular tapestry is one of the newer exhibits. 77 metres long, it tells us the story so far of A Game Of Thrones. Designed in a manner reminiscent of the Bayeaux Tapestry, it has all the essential events of the last 7 seasons.
So we saw it, thereby catching up with the story. Certainly an impressive achievement.
We also had a quick look around the museum. But I wanted to go see the transport museum, so off we went, distracted only by another charity shop, and an inexpensive cafe where we stopped for food (the museum is next to the university so there's a decent choice of cheap places to eat.
The transport museum is about 6 miles out of town, so one train ride later we were there.
It's not a huge collection but quite nice. There's a range if locomotives and railcars, plus an inspection bicycle. Also some tiny little brewery locomotives. A lot of the trains and coaches have signs inviting us to step aboard, so I did. Flickums had gone of to look at the Titanic exhibit next door.
One of the things in the Titanic exhibit, but not in the Titanic museum was a selection off artefacts from the wreck. They also had a rivet game where you had to press buttons as soon as they lit up. Hard mode was impossible.
Next room was the transport room. Mostly trams and buses, including a few trolley buses. After that was a display of cars. They had a Delorean (it is Belfast's most famous car after all)! One of the cars was a little single seater "invacar", which seemed to intrigue a couple of American tourists.
Finished off with a visit to the air, land, sea section. Not a lot there but they did have a Short SC1 VTOL experimental aircraft.
I had a nice day. What can I say? I'm a train nerd.
This particular tapestry is one of the newer exhibits. 77 metres long, it tells us the story so far of A Game Of Thrones. Designed in a manner reminiscent of the Bayeaux Tapestry, it has all the essential events of the last 7 seasons.
So we saw it, thereby catching up with the story. Certainly an impressive achievement.
We also had a quick look around the museum. But I wanted to go see the transport museum, so off we went, distracted only by another charity shop, and an inexpensive cafe where we stopped for food (the museum is next to the university so there's a decent choice of cheap places to eat.
The transport museum is about 6 miles out of town, so one train ride later we were there.
It's not a huge collection but quite nice. There's a range if locomotives and railcars, plus an inspection bicycle. Also some tiny little brewery locomotives. A lot of the trains and coaches have signs inviting us to step aboard, so I did. Flickums had gone of to look at the Titanic exhibit next door.
One of the things in the Titanic exhibit, but not in the Titanic museum was a selection off artefacts from the wreck. They also had a rivet game where you had to press buttons as soon as they lit up. Hard mode was impossible.
Next room was the transport room. Mostly trams and buses, including a few trolley buses. After that was a display of cars. They had a Delorean (it is Belfast's most famous car after all)! One of the cars was a little single seater "invacar", which seemed to intrigue a couple of American tourists.
Finished off with a visit to the air, land, sea section. Not a lot there but they did have a Short SC1 VTOL experimental aircraft.
I had a nice day. What can I say? I'm a train nerd.