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Published: August 26th 2017
Today we are in Belfast. We have tickets to the Titanic Museum and we are going to try to go there I have reserved a wheel chair in case Dennis needs it. We are docked a have a long steep gangway down to the dock. Dennis makes it down the stairway and is walking to the cab when his knee gives out. The cab driver rushes over to help him and we get him into the taxi. The cab driver takes us to the Titanic museum which is only about a 10 minute ride from the ship. The driver goes in and gets the wheelchair. He is a very nice fellow. I ask for his card and ases will he come back for us. He says he will and if he is too far away he will have one of his mates come for us. The museum is very wheel chair accessible and I push Dennis to the main elevato after we have our picture taken. The museum is very interesting. The focus is on the building of the Titanic since it was built in Belfast. The pictures and the dialogue are very good. You get a real sense of Belfast
at that time. Shipbuilding was a very important industry for Belfast. The work was very hard and quite dangerous. the ship was finished in 1911 but did not set sail until 1912 after sea trials and interior finishing. It left from Southhampton and stopped in Cherbourg and then Queens Town(Cobh). She was labeled the Queen of the Seas and was the finest ship afloat.Everyone knows the rest of the story. They had many individual stories of the passengers, some who survived and some who didn't. They were very moving.
After our tour we called our driver and he returned in 5 minutes. He was such a nice man. Actually everyone in the museum and in Belfast was extremely nice and helpful. When we got back to the ship, the brought a wheelchair and four men ( the size of children) carried Dennis up the stairs to the ship.
We are reconsidering out plans for the rest of the cruise for sightseeing. I will visit the destinations desk and see what we can do in a wheelchair. I will go to the ice caves in Iceland by myself because I really want to see those. We are trying to
get an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon for as soon as we return because Dennis need laparoscopy of that knee to get rid of the debris in there. Well we now have two days at sea on our way to Iceland. That will give Dennis a lot of rest.
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Mike
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Sounds like Dad will have significant time to nap and read!