Sunday was another travel day. Fortunately, it didn’t start until noon. We have had seldom days to sleep in during this trip. I got up for breakfast before the hotel stopped serving at 11. Then my roommate and a guy went to a traditional Irish gift shop. And then we got donuts again from Hot Donut, the same donut shop as yesterday. This time I had a salted caramel donut. We boarded our coach and traveled for Belfast. Our driver was a listless strange, so he took a longer route than he needed to. It took 3 hrs instead of 2. The only indication that we went from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland was that the road signs changed from yellow to white. I was surprised there was no actual border or even any signs welcoming you to the new country. Shortly after arriving at our hotel in Belfast, we met with our contact. He has an interesting background. He was a political prisoner for 16 years. I’m not going to go into the history of Northern Ireland and “the troubles” as they call their public disorder that lasted 50+ years, because I’d have to write a lengthy paper to get through it all. But basically, he was a Catholic arrested by Protestant police during the riots and protests by Catholics to gain civil rights. He was charged with attempted murder and involvement in the making of a bomb. He participated in a hunger strike to get released for 70 days. Ten people died from the strike, and therefore, his family signed away his rights for him to be given nutrients so he would not die. He has his PhD in peacemaking and sociology, and has written a book that did fairly well based on the conflict and his time in prison. After the walking tour, we were free for dinner. I chose a traditional Irish pub, Brennan's and went to bed shortly after returning. Some of my pictures are of the gates that separate Catholic and Protestant sides of the roads to prevent violence. They are usually open, but since it was a Sunday, they were closed. The Peace Wall is still up, and while tensions have improved enormously since 1999, the wall is likely to stay up for a very long time.