Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic ADVERTISEMENT\u201cDad, can I choose where we go on our next holiday?\u201d. This feels like a trap. In my head, I\u2019m weighing up encouraging her enthusiasm for exploring the world. At the same time, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m ready to sign over a holiday to the same girl who was recently furious that I wouldn\u2019t let her wear her pyjama top to school as a coat. \u201cWhere would you like to go?\u201d. I\u2019m deliberately cagey, negotiating with a six-year-old is fraught with danger. \u201cBelfast\u201d. I did not see that coming. I was sold immediately. I\u2019d never been to Belfast, and it wasn\u2019t really a place that I\u2019d considered visiting. Firstly, my perspective of Belfast was shaped by UK news reports in the late 1980s about the troubles – and that view was long overdue an update. Secondly, Belfast is right there. It\u2019s part of the UK and so it seemed familiar and felt like I could go whenever. But, given my daughter Emilie\u2019s interest and the fact she\u2019s currently learning about the Titanic at school, it appeared that the time was\u2026now!I\u2019m still trying to decide whether agreeing so readily was good or bad parenting. Either way, I had agreed, and so we set about working out when we\u2019d go and what we\u2019d do.Planning a holiday with your children requires patience and embracing mishapsWe were fortunate with timings: the half-term holiday wasn\u2019t far away and we had an extra day off school on the Friday before. This meant we could get away before the school holiday tax kicked in on the flights (not an actual tax, but a price spike that parents will be well aware of). ADVERTISEMENTThis was my daughter\u2019s trip so in the spirit of encouragement I wanted her to have the chance to help plan what we wanted to do while we were there. At this point, I can thoroughly recommend colour coding to engage young children. I was confident we had a plan that we\u2019d both enjoy while at the same time minimising the risk of any six-year-old-related mishaps. As it happens, we didn\u2019t even make it airside at Heathrow before our first mishap. ADVERTISEMENTWe were behind a fairly well-known UK-based TV presenter going through passport control who seemed to be having some problems. In retrospect, I shouldn\u2019t have pointed out to my daughter that he was famous, because she stood a couple of metres behind in the queue, pointing and loudly asking, \u201cWhat? Him? That one? Daddy? That man who\u2019s taking AGES?\u201d. As a Brit, I would have happily abandoned the trip there and then to avoid the embarrassment. Luckily, he wasn\u2019t going to Belfast.ADVERTISEMENTOur first day in Belfast was all about keeping things interactive at the Titanic quarterWe flew into Belfast City Airport, which I think is the most conveniently located airport I\u2019ve ever been through. We were off the plane and checking in to our city centre hotel within about 45 minutes of touching down. The next morning, after some interesting breakfast choices by Emilie, (who knew watermelon, potato bread, and cinnamon rolls \u201cgo very well together\u201d?) we headed out alongside the river to the Titanic quarter. I\u2019d assumed this would be more of an activity for kids as I was pretty confident that I already knew the story of the Titanic:ADVERTISEMENTMassive boat, hubris, catastrophe, and fast forward 85 years\u202611 Oscars. But the Titanic quarter was excellent. There was something for both of us and we really enjoyed it. With museums and exhibitions, I\u2019m never sure whether we\u2019re going to be able to take any of it in or whether it\u2019s going to be an hour or so of running around, blindly mashing interactive buttons. We ended up staying well over two hours and both had different favourite parts: ADVERTISEMENTMy daughter loved the ride and the virtual tour of the ship.I was moved by the wall with the victims\u2019 names, and learned how important Titanic and the wider shipbuilding industry was to Belfast. My daughter wasn\u2019t as interested in the individual items on display as I was, but I think it\u2019s trickier for a six-year-old to realise their significance and make that connection. The pocket watch of Captain Rostron (captain of the Carpathia, the ship which rescued the survivors) was on display, which I found it interesting. \u201cI like my watch better\u201d Emilie declared, and to be fair to her, his watch didn\u2019t even have a strap, let alone one with Disney characters on it. ADVERTISEMENTThat said, the treasure hunt activities for kids meant that she was engaged the whole way around and was actively looking at all the exhibits.After the experience we went on the tour which takes place around, rather than in the building. We learnt more about the building of the Titanic and saw where it left Belfast.Later in the weekend, another tour guide was very keen to point out that Titanic was \u201cabsolutely fine when it left so it\u2019s not our fault\u201d. ADVERTISEMENTMy daughter loved particularly loved the last part of the tour as she got to have a turn on the wheel of the SS Nomadic ship, which ferried passengers from Cherbourg to the Titanic. It also happens to be the last remaining White Star Line vessel. In the afternoon, we\u2019d booked tickets to go to W5, an interactive science museum with more buttons to mash than my daughter knew what to do with. After she\u2019d tried as much as possible in the shortest period of time possible, she\u2019d had enough learning, so we spent an hour there before heading back (via the giftshop) to have a rest before dinner.Beyond Belfast, there\u2019s the Giant\u2019s Causeway and a beautiful coastal route to discoverSunday was more of an outdoors day and we\u2019d booked on a tour that went north of Belfast to the Giant\u2019s Causeway, via a stunning coastal route that had a few stops on the way. ADVERTISEMENTIn advance, I had figured out that if we sat on the right-hand side of the tour coach to give ourselves the best views. So far, so good. But then my heart sank a little when at our first stop at Carrickfergus Castle, I realised we were in a loose convoy of four or five other coaches – and that we were going to be at the same places as hundreds of other people, all at the same time. This was the day I was reminded of two useful travel tips: Travel Tip One: There\u2019s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing. I\u2019d seen the weather forecast so had insisted on bringing a change of clothes and we were well-layered up. ADVERTISEMENTTravel Tip Two: If you are prepared to go even slightly off-the-beaten-track there are often rewards. In this case our first very well-beaten track was a stop at the famous \u2018dark hedges\u2019, which featured in \u2018The Game of Thrones\u2019. It\u2019s a narrow lane flanked by overhanging beech trees, yet when we arrived it already looked like Covent Garden at the weekend: hundreds of people were there trying to take selfies. Walking just 200 yards further along the road in the wind meant we got a far less-crowded experience than the vast majority of visitors that day. It was a similar story at Giants Causeway. By the time we got there, the wind had got stronger and the rain was much heavier\u2026and horizontal. Our driver called it \u2018summer\u2019. ADVERTISEMENTHalf our coach load of people didn\u2019t even get off, and instead preferred to head back and wait in the warmth of the Old Bushmills Distillery, the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world. Half as many again probably didn\u2019t make it past the visitor centre at the top of the cliffs. Emilie and I, meanwhile, loaded up on hot chocolate and set about braving the elements as we headed down to the stones. Despite all my bravado about being prepared, a half an hour’s walk into a wall of water was a step, actually 2,000 ish steps, too far. But when we got down there it was exhilarating with the weather only emphasising the ruggedness of the coastline, and I\u2019m really glad we saw it like that. ADVERTISEMENTWe spent 45 mins there watching the sea, climbing over the rocks, and trying to avoid the pools that had formed around them. After that, we had a quick look around the visitor centre to dry off and learnt about the origins of the causeway: Volcanic activity for the more scientifically inclined, or it was built by the superbly named giant, Finn MacCool, who needed a crossing to go and have a fight with a rival giant in Scotland. My daughter and I agreed to disagree on which one was true. ADVERTISEMENTBack in Belfast we had dinner opposite the grand Belfast City Hall and laughed at some of the photos we had from the day.Belfast\u2019s peace walls: a lesson in how not to shield children from the worldOur flight home on Monday was late afternoon so we still had some time to look around. I wanted to see the peace walls and learn more about the nuance of the troubles, its effects and to try and learn how things are today. At the same time, I wasn\u2019t sure how to explain their presence to a six-year-old. I settled on a compromise: we would walk there instead of taking one of the black cab tours, which would still let her have a look at the art until she\u2019d had enough, and I\u2019d answer any questions she had as best I could. ADVERTISEMENTWe walked up the Falls Road and crossed through the gates onto Cupar Way where there is a particularly long and imposingly high section of the wall, covered in messages from around the world. I have always been aware of the existence of the walls in Belfast and, to an extent, the reasons they\u2019re there, but it shook me to think what the situation must have been like for the people who lived through the height of the troubles.After a fairly heavy morning, we played a round of mini-golf before heading back to the airport. As we flew back over the Irish Sea, we took one last look at the huge Harland and Wolff cranes, Samson and Goliath. ADVERTISEMENTOn the way home, I asked her where she\u2019d like to go next. \u201cSweden.\u201d \u201cAbba museum?\u201d I enquired.\u201cYeah!\u201d\u201cMaybe you can go there with Mummy\u201d.ADVERTISEMENTRoss Woodman was a guest of the Titanic Experience and Tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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