To ask if you would visit Northern Ireland?

[BlueFlamingoes]

Would you visit NI? Why/why not? I always find it interesting how marmite of a place my home is - keen to hear some opinions and maybe dispel a rumour or two :)

I love it. Belfast centre. The Quarters, St Anne's, cathedral...
Down country, Cookstown, Dungannon.
It's a beautiful place, have always had a great time! And a short flight from Ggow. But that plane!! 😵‍💫

I love it. Belfast centre. The Quarters, St Anne's, cathedral...
Down country, Cookstown, Dungannon.
It's a beautiful place, have always had a great time! And a short flight from Ggow. But that plane!! 😵‍💫

I've been to Northern Ireland twice. It is a truly beautiful part of the UK. The coastline is stunning.

The causeway is one of the least wow parts of the NI coast IMO

I prefer to avoid the national trust bits. They just feel .... National trust-ey.

Have to say that I agree with this. Honestly I’m not a fan of the north coast and rarely stray more than 30 mins outside belfast... I’m not a major nature/outdoors lover though so feel that it is probably wasted on me!

Love NI. My family is from Dunluce. Visited many times. Only negative experience I’ve had is when we saw a dream property on the edge of Strangford Loch and phoned up the estate agent to enquire about viewing it, was told immediately that it was sold, despite no Sold sign and still showing as available on Rightmove.
Family friend called up the next morning.. obviously with NI accent.. strangely enough it was still for sale and available for viewing…

I would love to visit NI!

I really enjoyed Belfast when I visited and would love to go back to see some of the coast and surrounding countryside

Oh I think the coast is heaven... Just not the national trust bit

I'm not a big fan of national trust sites here either though, I prefer things wild to very managed and curated

I have done and will go back. It's beautiful.

People I know who have gone over really like it. My DS said it was like Wales but without Welsh signs.

Best kept secret in UK. A stunningly beautiful place. With amazing people. Only discovered it when retired and went traveling in my motorhome. Fell so in love.

Strangely Wales is the part of the UK that I feel least at home in. Love Scotland and parts of England but really couldn’t warm to Cardiff or the surrounding areas.

How is it micro-aggression?! You’re not even making sense. the PP said they wouldn’t come on the basis of them being black and I have asked what’s that based on - a previous trip? Someone else they know who had a negative experience? An assumption that NI people are racist? I was genuinely interested in the answer. I’m not really sure how you have angled that in my direction as being unreasonable.

Yes

No. I have a completely irrational dislike of Northen Ireland. Something about it just repels me.

Yes would love to visit. I live in London and am trying to organise a few friends to go to Belfast for a weekend. Also want to visit Derry

Of course! What an odd question. Why on earth wouldn’t I want to visit such a beautiful part of these islands? Especially as my family are from Co Tyrone.

Been a few times. Like the countryside and people and had fun in Belfast. I would go back.

I was a bit uncomfortable around all the flags that were up. Im not used to seeing it.

Ex H use to be in the army based in Holywood just outside Belfast. Many moons ago. I loved NI. Not once did I feel unsafe, not once did I not feel excepted. My DS (13) was born there. Many many happy memories of NI itself……. Ex H not so much 😂. Go and visit, you won’t be disappointed, it’s beautiful

Care to elaborate?

Same

Scotland and NI and RI have similar feels. But I've always experienced such coldness in Wales. The landscape has it all on paper, but it's really unsettling to me culturally (things like DDs being absolutely desperate for the loo and every establishment we asked in saying they didn't have one or it's out of order etc). Not just to/at me, interactions we witnessed also.

I wouldn't compare it to NI or Scotland at all, but would compare them to each other.

Now Wales IS Marmite as I either hear people feeling the same as me about it, or else people are totally in love with it.

These days my favourite spot to visit in Wales is the ferry port

A close friend moved to Cardiff for work after uni so I used to visit regularly. It got to a point where I genuinely had to ask her if I was doing/saying something wrong as servers and shop assistants etc were consistently so rude + cold towards me! She told me that it was just the norm there. It’s a strange place.

I went on a day trip to NI from Scotland about ten years ago. It was a coach and ferry trip to see the Titanic Experience. My first impression was that NI towns looked very similar to ones in Scotland. The centre of Belfast looked nicer than I was expecting - clean, green and modern with some attractive architecture. There are still some parts of Belfast I wouldn't go to, though, especially after a colleague from Bangor said that she would stay away from them.

I'd like to see more of NI and the rest of Ireland.