Belfast - it's changed. there are no more bombs and it's a prospering city. not quite as cosmopolitan as London or Dublin, but that's the appeal. it's raw and the locals give it vibrancy.
Try cafe vaudeville for lunch and cocktails and stroll around the cathedral quarter's cobblestone streets afterwards.
party at the potthouse or take it a little smoother at cloth ear.
hit it when the two of the best festivals are on - cathedral quarter arts festival during may each year, belfast festival at queen's, october - november
visit the site where the ill-stricken titanic was built at queen's island.
take a black taxi up the falls(nationalist/republican) and the shankill(unionist/loyalist) road.
visit city hall. you can't miss it as it dominates the city centre's shopping area..grab a sandwich from nearby deane's on bedford street and park yourself in the garden.
have a beer in the corwn bar on great victoria street before catching a show at the opera house across the street