belfast morning

belfast castle

woke up this morning feeling sicker than yesterday. pardon my grossness but today, my phlegm is the green type and i am just so hoping that i won't be as sick as i was late last year/early this year that i had to buy very expensive medicines just to help me get better. this reminds me that i had to see the doctor as soon as i arrive home. but aside from this, everything is great.


today, kuya and i went around belfast city. it's funny because our first stop was at a clothing store where kuya bought me a pink sweater of my own. as i have mentioned in previous posts, i didn't bring any warm clothes as i was thinking that summer would really be warm. i was wrong. so here i am, with a cute new pink sweater, that i don't really need (since ate lent me hers) but still happy to have.

next stop was another surprise. kuya took me to one of his favorite places -- a car dealership :) no wonder. i grew up knowing how his dad and my dad discuss vehicles. for sure it also rubbed on him. so there we were at charles hurst, going around and around looking at cool cars which are sold second hand: ferrari, range rovers, maserati, bmw and other famous european cars. the jaguars were parked in a closed area so we didn't see them. amazing, the cars are really cool! :)

we went to belfast castle next. it's so cool to know that a noble family has lived there and the whole area it sits on was theirs in the "old" times. the estate was really large and overlooks the city. it's cool thinking about how the people who lived there must have raced horses, walked in their walking attires, or partied in the estate lawns. i can just imagine it. it's like the setting for the medieval ages books that i read sometimes. :)

the next thing we went to was the town center, walking around the streets to see the belfast city hall, the prince albert clock, victoria square and it's viewdeck, checking out the perfumes at the department store, and lastly saw the filipino store at this one weekend market building. yet i think one of the coolest things we've done was pass by an asian warehouse where they sell foods that are familiar to me. i guess that it wouldn't be that bad living in a foreign land when you know that somewhere, there is an asian store where you can buy the ingredients to make your comfort food. when i travel, the markets are the one of the places i love going to because i can see in some ways how people live their lives and how they interact with each other. this was one nice experience.

tomorrow, we are going to a new place. it's going to be another great adventure!