Belfast’s Titanic charms

From the moment you breathe in the air of Belfast, your senses are stoked up with the rich spirit of the place; with the uncommon charm and cheerfulness of the people – ever heartening and helpful – along with the beauty of so many of its buildings. As a bumper bonus, it has the most beautiful public house in the United Kingdom.

Once the linen capital of the world, the city went on to harbour a great shipyard, as well as the largest rope works and tobacco factory in the world.

My heart quickens with the memory of it all – with the buildings from the 1700s onwards, all proclaiming the prosperity of ‘Linenopolis’, while Victorian and