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2nd week in Belfast
(End of quarantine, First day at work and the Giant’s Causeway)

Prologue: Since I am now on a full-time internship, implementing private IT projects on the side and also involved in many group activities, I have decided not to write down each day individually as before, but to focus on the important events of the week. As far as my free time is concerned, there is a clear difference compared to the last week in quarantine. The daily routine has to be structured more to get everything under one roof. So there will be more pictures in the blog and less text than the two blog entries before. But enough of the boring speech and off to my blog for the second week here in Belfast...

5th week in Belfast
(Orange Day, Hospital and New Castle)

We are very lucky to be here in the country for a special day that is mainly celebrated in Northern Ireland. It is the official feast day by the 'Protestant Loyalists'. Here is a small excerpt from the corresponding Wiki article: "The Twelfth (also called the Glorious Twelfth or Orangemen's Day) is an Ulster Protestant celebration held on 12 July. It celebrates the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and victory of Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic King James II at the Battle of the Boyne 1690, which ensured a Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. On and around the Twelfth, large parades are held by the Orange Order and Ulster loyalist marching bands, streets are covered with British flags and bunting, and large towering bonfires are lit in loyalist neighbourhoods." Today we plan to climb the Napoleon's Nose in Cavehill country park around midnight. Yes, the hilltop we climbed as a group last week. I can highly recommend the park to anyone who ever gets to B...