DATE: Saturday 19 August, 1995

PLACE: Stranraer to Larne (Strathtay to Belfast)

WEATHER: Damp and humid

REMARKS: Up before 0600 to complete packing and leave by 0730. The drive to Stranraer goes according to plan; the route is straightforward and easily followed (a pleasant and reassuring change). The ferry is boarded immediately and has a separate motorists lounge, which is less crowded. Entertainment for the kids and a mercifully brief trip. The sea is covered in haze/mist/fog so visibility is very poor.

Larne is a small town and we don't stop.

Belfast is barely visible through the haze, but strikes me as depressing and forbidding - vast acreages of repetitive red-brick housing arranged in unimaginative rows. We have to find Kirsten and Adrian; eventually we discover their tenement: barely wider than our car is long and 2-storied in a truly 'mean street'.

We're staying not far away in a family home in a Terrace - larger (3-storied) but not much. It is however a real family home and the kids are very taken at finding toys belonging to the owners their own ages.

The area is deep in loyalist territory - Protestant East Belfast and Desiree is clearly uneasy about this. But we have been told to make ourselves at home, so we do!


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