Leaving Belfast behind...

On board the MV Mersey Viking, with the city of Belfast and a year in Northern Ireland slipping away into the mist behind us. Most of my major travel decisions this summer have been dictated by special offers. I'm going to Montréal on the first of the cheap autumn fares, and conveniently enough this was the last cheap car ferry crossing to Birkenhead from Belfast (£59 incidentally - wowza, and that saved about 200 miles driving at the other end).

We even got a bargain free three course lunch. See... there is such a thing... kind of...

*j*