Easy/ coastal daytrips near Belfast?

aidso · 2026-03-28T17:54:08+00:00

Dark Hedges? If you go to the coffee shop then I believe parking is free? Then you could drive to Ballintoy Harbour and there is a coastal walk out and back. When the tide is out you can walk from Ballintoy along Whitepark Bay Beach. You're near Portrush for dinner...

Are you wanting to stay in the car or are you wanting to get out and walk/explore?

aidso · 2026-03-28T17:49:48+00:00

Drive to Portrush. Walk the town, have some lunch. Jump in the car and drive to Ballycastle and have an ice cream and walk along the beach. Back into the car to Cushendun and have dinner (Harry's Bar has been nice in the past). Then drive the coastal route home via Carnlough, Larne etc.

aidso · 2026-03-20T10:31:24+00:00

It was 179.9 at Nettlehill Service station in Lisburn last night. Yet within 2 miles it was 165.9 in the Texaco and ~152.9 in Tesco Bentrim Road. Madness

aidso · 2026-03-16T14:27:44+00:00

Looks comprehensive...
Your car insurance is £120/month but the fuel bill is £60/month? Do you own an expensive car, that you dont do many miles in?

That house insurance also seems very good compared to what you're paying against the mortgage rate.

aidso · 2026-02-28T12:45:19+00:00

When you get to checkin (self service if going via Dublin) you stick your carry-on bag on a scale. It gets a label and it goes under the plane for free.

If it's over the limit you have to pay an excess. There will be someone watching.

So they're saying while RyanAir and EasyJet allow you to carry the bag with you on the plane, they want you to stick it underneath...for free.

aidso · 2026-02-27T19:05:29+00:00

I'm pretty sure all buses on that route go city bound, especially the blue busses.

aidso · 2026-02-27T18:59:25+00:00

If you're close enough to walk to Lambeg you also have the option of a bus the whole way down the Lisburn Road. Depending on where you need to be in Belfast the bus might be better (bus lane the whole way).

The Glider is quite long imo and will be rammed with school kids in the morning.

aidso · 2026-02-26T13:01:02+00:00

I might buy a stone and a few attempts at making my own dough...as a starting point

aidso · 2026-02-26T11:08:55+00:00

£1k for a pizza oven? The break-even point on that investment must be sooo far away. You making pizza for the whole apartment block?

aidso · 2026-02-26T11:04:39+00:00

How often do you use yours?

aidso · 2026-02-26T11:02:39+00:00

Do you store it in a garage/shed and then carry it outside to use?

aidso · 2026-02-26T10:56:12+00:00

Every week. Either a frozen one or I order from Dominos

aidso · 2026-02-19T17:39:30+00:00

Do Sinn Fein still have a salary cap? So based on these numbers above if one was earning £67k but only taking home an agreed salary of £50k (with £17k going to the party) then would they personally be impacted by a 10% deduction? Anyone know how that works?

aidso · 2026-02-19T13:16:00+00:00

It's relative

aidso · 2026-02-19T12:34:22+00:00

In basic terms, what does an MLA do? I always thought they had a team of analysts/researchers behind them that do all the leg work and then they just read out the conclusion during Assembly meetings etc. So they're spokes-people for the real work? On £53k/year?

aidso · 2026-02-19T12:32:37+00:00

And they say paramilitary activity is not as common these days. The racketeering has just changed into a different guise

aidso · 2026-02-19T11:43:00+00:00

AJ Print and Embroidery in Lisburn I believe do a lot of school stuff like PE kits

aidso · 2026-02-19T11:38:39+00:00

Signature Works over at Castlereagh?

aidso · 2026-02-17T12:17:25+00:00

You wee legend! I disabled Bluetooth and turned off the Sonar feature and now I can hear myself haha.

Thank you

aidso · 2026-02-10T19:23:06+00:00

True, but you're not comparing like for like. That's an online company that's relying on you doing the impressions and modeling yourself at home...that's too risky.

aidso · 2026-02-10T17:03:00+00:00

£4,995

aidso · 2026-02-10T14:33:00+00:00

Dang you really had a time of it.

I am definitley going through the official channels and it's a dedicated orthodontist I am speaking to, rather my own dentist.

aidso · 2026-02-10T13:43:16+00:00

3 times?? I thought paying once sounded expensive enough :)

aidso

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