Geo: 54.5973, -5.93019Belfast Day 1 (March 30)At 9:00 am sharp Ken Harper (010), aBelfast tour guide, picked me up from my hotel for a taxi cab tour ofthe working class Catholic neighborhood and working class Protestantneighborhood where much of the violence of the Troubles of the 1970s,80s, and 90s took place. The Troubles was a sectarian conflict thatdrew in troops of the British empire and which resulted in 3,000deaths. Mr. Harper, with his black London style taxi, is highlyrecommended by Rick Steves in his Ireland guide book because hedoesn't take sides on this conflict which other guides might do.On the way to Falls Road, the main roadthrough the Catholic neighborhood (aka Republican meaning a proponentof a unified Ireland that has no ties with England) I asked Ken if heknow of a laundromat where I could wash
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