The Botanical Garden’s graffiti-laced entrance portends its gin garden oasis. I discovered Liverpool's avant-garde gin bar one day, as I explored a stark graff-filled industrial alley in the edgy Baltic Triangle. Botanical's compelling façade is composed of a collage of colorful discarded doors, strewn with graffiti, that reflect its surrounding […]
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Liverpool’s vibrant neighborhoods inventively leverage its industrial past. Compact and walkable, the best way to get a feel for this reawakened city is to trek across its micro ‘hoods. Liverpool neighborhood are filled with stunning architecture is a mesmerizing contrast of industrial, Victorian-Georgian-Edwardian, and contemporary. Armed with a plan, I […]
Austere-industrial and graffiti-filled with dramatic architecture, the Baltic Triangle’s up and coming art quarter makes Liverpool cool. I first found the Baltic Triangle as I plotted my Liverpool Biennial itinerary. Streets of The Baltic Triangle - Liverpool The Triangle is fairly off-the-beaten Liverpool path, so you have to actively seek […]
Belfast made a lasting impression on me. From the moment I set foot in the city, I wondered what took me so long to finally make it to this vibrant and friendly city. A week wasn’t nearly enough time to do Belfast right. I found Belfast to be perfect for […]
Belfast had been calling for a while… and I finally relented. I decided to plant myself in one of Belfast’s most charming, walkable, and oldest neighborhoods - the Cathedral Quarter. It came with promises of cool street art, great music pubs, and tasty modern restaurants. And it more than delivered […]