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From London To Belfast: Air travel within Britain by BEA is now woven into an intricate tapestry of lines. I have flown from London to Belfast in substantially less than two hours and from Penzance to the Scilly Isles in a few minutes. Other services knot together most of the large cities and of course tie the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands to the parent island.
British train travel has improved enormously in the last few years. Among the famous long-distance expresses are The Queen of Scots, an extra-fare Pullman between London and Scotland, and The Elizabethan, a non-stop express covering the 393 miles from King's Cross (London) to.One of the most scenic coastal trips I have ever taken in any country was by car from Belfast through Larne and Cushendun, then, abandoning the highway, by a straggling, narrow, up-and-down, chute-the-chutes crescent lane for many miles over Torr Head, passing a few small "bally" hamlets to Ballycastle, and so, by a main road, to the Giant's Causeway and Portrush. I continued next day to walled Londonderry, a city with far more than an air—I refer to the haunting "Londonderry Air," popularized by Fritz Kreisler—and ultimately circled back toward Belfast by way of Stra-bane, on the River Foyle. I followed a very lovely rural route, not on most maps, across the Spurrin Hills from Plumbridge to Draperstown and so, north of Lough Neagh, to Antrim and Belfast.
This great building, easily reachable by Trolleybus 22 from the center, is a must of Belfast. A gift of England in the period of the 30's, "between wars," it is a huge and sumptuous affair, but its finest feature for many is its extensive park and velvet lawn, seen in all their splendor from the terrace. A mile-long entrance road, "parting" a flawless lawn all the way, leads from the main highway to the palace. Belfast industry is featured by linen. I once visited the York Street |
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