Another day in par.. Belfast.

I had good intentions when I opened the door in the morning after sleeping two hours more than I'd normally do. A quick visit to Jessops to buy something to clean the lens of my SLR with, then Linenhall Library, the City Hall and Ulster Museum. Well, you might have already guessed, that it didn't really work out the way I had planned... After walking to town I bumped into M, one of my fellow volunteers from the beginning of the month. In the traffic lights! I followed him to Boots and bought an Innocent smoothie, then followed him to the bus stop just to have a wee chat. Finding the Jessops camera shop was trickier than I had thought. I knew the address but didn't know any street names. But lucky me, I found my way to Best Vintage and oops, my "how to survive the year with one hoodie and one cardigan"-problem was suddenly solved. With the help of 25 pounds. The shop was fabulous, I need to take my brother and his girl there if they ever make it here. After some hard thinking I made a guestimation and found my way to the High Street. The nice man in the Jessops showed an ugly face when I told that I had never cleaned the lens of my 1-year-old camera. However, I got what I needed and decided to stick to my plan of visiting sophisticated destinations. But. The Linen Hall Library had closed its doors at 1.30pm in order to train their staff. I decided to skip the City Hall because I didn't have my cane with me and I wasn't sure how the lighting would be indoors (I know, this is not very convincing...) and walk to the Botanic Avenue instead. Just as my host mum, I then decided to make a tiny detour to check if Oxfam (Home) would have any bedlinen and ended up bying a tea pot and something small for my friend for Christmas. In the post office the lady would put a million stamps on my letters and cards and the queue was just growing behind me. Have you noticed that all the post offices in the world are using the same round orange sponges that are in the dark green rubbery spongeholders? It might be a successfull business idea to break into the post office sponge market, because there might be a monopoly. To be fair to myself I have to say that I did enter the Ulster Museum. I just didn't have any specific urge to go any further, so I took a stroll through the Botanic Gardens and came home. With all my shopping that I wasn't supposed to do. Oops.