Thanks for your post Rudolf from Belfast and thank you for getting in touch before as well. I really do miss home a lot.
One other point about the ticketing system. Belfast has recently annonced the iLink which is an integral bus and rail ticket, it has 3 zones: -
Zone 1: Valid on:
* Metro: All Metro services in Belfast.
* NI Railways: NI Railways services between Belfast and Holywood, Jordanstown, Mossley West and Derriaghy and all stops in between.
* Ulsterbus: Ulsterbus Town services within Zone 1 such as Holywood and Newtownabbey. All other Ulsterbus services which pick up and set down passengers within the Metro operating area.
* Airport Express 600 services to George Best Belfast City Airport.
Zone 2: Valid on:
* Metro: All Metro services in Belfast.
* NI Railways: NI Railways services between Belfast and Bangor, Carrickfergus, Antrim and Lisburn and all stops in between.
* Ulsterbus: All Ulsterbus Town services for towns within Zone 2 including those in Bangor, Carrickfergus, Antrim and Lisburn.
* Other Ulsterbus services within the Zone 2 boundary, e.g. Bangor, Carrickfergus, Lisburn, Antrim, Comber, Newtownards, Ballygowan, Saintfield, Ballynahinch, Templepatrick and Ballyclare.
Zone 3: Valid on:
* All Translink bus and rail services throughout Northern Ireland.
* Airport Express 300 services to Belfast International Airport.
If there are anyone out there who is in Northern Ireland, do get in touch with me or Rudolf as there is the Bus Rally coming up in Cultra on 17 April 2010. Maybe can go take photos together!
常滿樓 is now the only decent restaurant left, 新記 and 錦繡中華 has all been sold to our dear 同胞 from inland china (apparently both were lost separately at casinos.... 常滿樓 is easily much much much better than any restaurant in Hong Kong la! Food in NI is just amazing!!
Back to the question, Portadown is in Zone 3. You can have a look in the following pdf from Translink: -
I haven't really left NI, I am just in Leeds at the moment studying for my Masters, I do go back to NI a lot as I live in Lisburn now. So hopefully when I have a chance I will go back and take some more photos too!
常滿樓 is now the only decent restaurant left, 新記 and 錦繡中華 has all been sold to our dear 同胞 from inland china (apparently both were lost separately at casinos.... 常滿樓 is easily much much ...
Lisburn!? You went to Newtownbreda college??
I used to live in Ireland. I went back to Hong Kong because of the Financial Crisis>,<.
I lived in Monaghan, so when we restore our fridge, we usually go to Armagh/Craigavon/Belfast.
Miss 「熙記」菠蘿包...=[ Even it's so expensive...
I went to Lisburn once only. It's whenever the M1 Motor way got "Diverted Traffic"
p.s. I used to go to the Chinese school in Belfast on Sunday~
呢個係"貝爾法斯特眼" The Big Wheel
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