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Weekend

Walk of the Week: Newry Canal Towpath

The Newry Canal Towpath is a 20-mile route running between Portadown and Newry along the former Newry to Portadown canal, which was completed in 1742.

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Inside Weekend

Joris Minne: Cafe Le Petit Ormeau

Monday, 6 February 2012

If Belfast were Paris, our Champs Elysees would be Royal Avenue, the 16th Arrondissement would be that nice bit between Malone and Lisburn roads and the Jardins de Luxembourg would be the Botanic Gardens.
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Walk of the Week: Cregagh Glen

Monday, 30 January 2012

This Cregagh Glen route explores a shady glen up into the Castlereagh hills on surfaced and unsurfaced paths. There are some steep climbs, but you will be rewarded at the summit with magnificent views over Belfast from a fascinating fairy rath — a far cry from the dual carriageway where you set off.
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Joris Minne: The 4th Wall

Monday, 30 January 2012

If at first you don’t succeed … give up. Don’t make a fool of yourself. WC Fields’ famous words have fallen on deaf ears, however, and a Belfast restaurant which had an inauspicious start, has tried and tried and finally settled down into a comfortable rhythm.
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Walk of the Week: Rowallane Garden

Monday, 23 January 2012

Rowallane Garden lies in the beautiful drumlin landscape of Co Down and is home to a dazzling array of exotic species.
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Joris Minne: Clandeboye Lodge Hotel

Monday, 23 January 2012

The most attractive people in the world are not those who combine all the best attributes and assets of physical beauty, but rather those who bear the most middle-of-the-road, inoffensive and barely noticeable features.
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Walk of the Week: Christie Park and Somerset Riverside Park

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

This pleasant riverside walk along the western bank of the Lower Bann River in the centre of Coleraine introduces the walker to an area steeped in history and natural beauty.
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Joris Minne: Pot Belly Restaurant

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Food writers have different ways of carving out a style of critique that makes them stand out. Some let on they don’t like to leave the city because they believe nothing in the provinces can possibly match the best in a capital city.
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Walk of the Week: Ring of Gullion — Marble Bridge to Forkhill

Monday, 9 January 2012

This linear route follows off-road trails and quiet country lanes around the volcanic landscape of the Ring of Gullion Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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Joris Minne: Deanes at Queens

Monday, 9 January 2012

Deanes at Queens has come some distance since it was reviewed in these pages almost three years ago.
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Walk of the Week: Donaghadee Town Trail

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

This walking tour takes you on an historical journey exploring the developments of Donaghadee, once considered the main shipping port between Ireland and Scotland.
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Joris Minne: Il Pirata

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

East Belfast is at it again. Just when we were settling back into our comfortable prejudices about the cold, stark and joyless east, up pops restaurant tsar Sam Spain with a new and compelling idea — a diner named after a dead Italian racing cyclist, Marco Pantani, aka Il Pirata (or The Pirate — because of his fondness of ear-rings and bandanas).
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Walk of the Week: Clandeboye Estate

Monday, 19 December 2011

Clandeboye is one of the few great estates in Northern Ireland that still remains in the ownership of the original family. It was settled in 1674 and is currently home to Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
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Joris Minne: Bar & Grill at James St South

Monday, 19 December 2011

Have you noticed how successful people from Northern Ireland look like famous actors and celebrities? Christine Bleakley looks like supermodel Christy Turlington, property developer Andy Creighton is a dead ringer for Joe Pesci and tourism supremo Howard Hastings must surely be tired of being mistaken for Tom Hanks.
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Walk of the Week: Gortin Lakes

Monday, 12 December 2011

This off-road gravel path around the Gortin Lakes offers superb views of the high Sperrins landscape.
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Joris Minne: Crown Liquor Saloon

Monday, 12 December 2011

This autumn has seen the reinvention of Belfast. The world’s media came to cover the MTV EMAs, National Geographic Traveller Magazine declared that Belfast should be on your list of ten things to see before you die and the Ulster Museum’s street art exhibition completed a year of extraordinary shows.
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