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Thanks Geoffrey, appreciate it 👍

Cheers mate 👍 🇬🇧

Love it up there Gordon. Would regularly do the sallagh brae walk, class views. Thanks for watching 👍

Thanks Peter

No idea. It's an e-bike if that's what you mean, sound of that maybe? The audio is as good as it gets for this amateur😄 Cheers for watching 👍

Remember Larkfield all right !

My cousins went to Larkfield Secondary

@@JohnSmith-lt3jl l was there 1965-1970

Aww mate, outstanding food there, love the place

Hi Alice, thanks for watching, no that's how it looked. Glad you enjoyed it 😊

Cheers Steff, I'll give it a listen

Will be round there soon pal 👍

@@shadowmanNI A nice piece of Seymour Hill History is Seymour Hill House (behind Kilmakee Activity Centre) which was once owned by The Charley family who were Linen Merchants

Finn bullson is mine!

Thanks 👍

Cheers pal

@klawlor3659 aww thank you for the kind words. That's brilliant, glad you are loving the wee country and that makes my day if these wee amateur videos sell the place. They aren't sugar coated, just showing the place how it is, warts and all. Enjoy the Guinness!

It's massively popular here mate, both in NI and ROI. Been to the C2C gig a few times in Dublin, then for the first time in Belfast this year. Should check out some of the Irish country acts. Very cheesy lol but some not too bad

Yeah it's a fair point. I do try and make sure I'm aware of surroundings, for example upper falls, nobody on footpath visible as far as eye can see- got out of way of bus lane/ road, so there's literally zero issue there. If I'm on a path and someone is approaching I'll slow down to a stop if needs be. I take the point about safety though 👍

Totally agree pal, thanks for watching 👍

Cheers pal for the heads up, I'll get some

No, it's an e-bike

That's probably a reasonable assessment of the allure of the area, big Ulster Scots area too, which would fit in with your ancestry. Do love the area

@ yeah, I love the Ballymena accents too! Very musical.

The link between this part of the british Isles and Scotland is very strong, in many areas of County Antrim accents are often mistaken by English people (or people from other countries) as being Scottish

@ I can definitely hear the similarities between people from Ballymena and Glasgow. I also have heard people from Derry that sounded Scottish to me.

Donegal as well to be fair

Yes

Thanks for watching colm, good point, some history/memories...thankfully quieter on that front now! 👍

Good to know 👍

Yes, sadly true, they've been a grim necessity

Yeah, fair comment. One benefit of the bike 😉

Jimmymcferran,couldn't agree more.

Good morning, hope you had a nice Christmas/New Year- appreciate the kind comments 😊

@shadowmanNI l am glad to get peace now. I watch your videos when I am on my own on the big screen. When I say peace I mean left to my own devices. Haha 😂.

Thanks pal, appreciate it 👍

Thanks for the advice pal, I'll take that on board. Our nhs isn't really functioning and hasn't been for years due to a combination of things....I might have to go private. Otherwise healthy enough, just noticed that recently in the cold 👍 Very very common here, smell it everywhere

@ absolutely, hope you can get some answers. If there's anything Americans can relate to, it's an absolute failure of a health system. Good to know if I ever come over 🤣 definitely a nice addition to any vacation

Hi, thanks for watching, and the kind comment! 👍

Cheers Steff 👍

Cheers Michael, aye, was hoping to avoid too much traffic, not great for a bike video 👍

Hi, thanks for the kind comment. You raise a fair question, you would think that such close living in such numbers in urban areas may have a negative impact on humans, not something we were "designed " to do? I think, without getting too political, there are less "issues" in more homogenous societies which tend to be higher trust societies. For years many inner city areas were relatively safe, leaving doors unlocked etc. I definitely see the value in open space and more rural living, though car essential

@@shadowmanNIas an American watching, that's the ultimate tradeoff I see Europe making versus North America and Australia. Your cities are much more walkable, at the cost of road infrastructure and green space. Even small towns are constructed like Manhattan or Toronto in terms of density. It looks a bit claustrophobic, but I can't even imagine how convenient life must be to be that close to things. A different way of life for sure.

Remembered your comment on the Shankill video pal ha 👍

Really noticing the fingers getting numb/abnormally sore in the cold lately mate. Had decent gloves on but at couple of points thought I might abandon it lol. Weird, as I was up black mountain this afternoon and the hands were grand. Yeah, plenty of history, as you say, lower falls has been ripped to pieces though the flats were 60s idealism/brutalism so best gone 👍

@shadowmanNI Great views from the Black Mountain and Divis. Love it up there...and Cavehill of course. Glad you overcame the biting cold but I'm sure it was Baltic up there today.

⁠cold hands were one of the main reasons I gave up riding motorcycles in the winter. I never tried the electric heated gloves though, and I would imagine they'd be game changing. Props to you for braving the elements!

Good idea about the heated gloves, think I might order a pair!

Thank you 👍

Thanks for watching 👍

Aye, wasn't much life, few bars cloaed too early on

Tera ble placec

Thanks very much Siobhan, I will do

Cheers Martin

Do agree with the gist of your post- his Christmas speech was an absolute disgrace, I'm a unionist, but I can't stand the man. Nothing more than a puppet. Sadly similar situation in the Republic, perhaps arguably worse given the pace of change there. Troubling times ahead 👍

@@shadowmanNI My friend,what enrages me is how the Unionist people have been utterly screwed over,and this is from a Nationalist point of view,Not the fake nationlism of a group called Sinn Fein who are nothing than marxist loons.In that regard they are nothing more than than the SNP or Labour.Likewise I totally despise every political party in the 26 counties.All totally committed to the EU and were happy to see Britain taking pain from Brussels.I want an Ireland where we make the decisions, and our taxes are spent on the people of this Island.At this moment in time how could even have the front to ask the Unionist community, to join a state where the idiots that run it are importing the third world.Meanwhile the utter treachery of Labour and the Conservatives has turned Britain into a third world dumping ground.Take my word for it London is looking at dumping more and more of the third world into Belfast.The BBC,those paragons of viture,are openly boasting about why Dungannon is great now its more diverse.Sorry no town on this island wants the diversity that is coming.New Orleans and Magdeburg are a testament to what this madness brings.I hate to see a place like the Shankill now looking like a potential third world dumping ground.The area needs money, total redevelopement and jobs.What worries me even more is the low Protestant birth rate .If the population is not replacing itself then the powers that be will import a new diverse population.Look how that has worked in Rotherham,Leeds,Bradford and Slough.Finally, I do not know if have heard of Gavin Ashenden,he was once an advisor to Queen Elizabeth.He called the speech that Charles gave an open declaration of war on the working class.Charles has chosen a side and its not the one he should be on.There are dark times ahead.

Bang on sonny, i'm an Englishman, cannot stand Charles and he is as you say a WEF/Globalist stooge, and most working class i feel would agree with us. Some might say a traitor. I love the Loyalist people, but i also feel an affinity with the ordinary Irish people, who in my experience are salt of the Earth, i should know i'm shacked up with an Kilkenny lass, and my Moms sister married a Wexford man. I feel we have more in common that separates us, and there is major problems with our elites that i feel the British and Irish Iles folk should come together.come together

The thing with NI is that for the last 20 or so years both RC and protestant birth rates have been similar, less than replaceable levels. We've even had Catholic schools having to close/amalgamate in the last 15 years or so, which would have been unthinkable in 70s/80s. Of course the RC CHURCH has courted some of the immigration to bolster their pews/school intake, however they are just the mirror reflection of Charles, whoring themselves for power and self interest. Appreciate your input pal 👍

@@shadowmanNI 👍Keep up the good work mate, i hope to come to Belfast next year to see how it's come on, and of course i'll do a tour of the neighbourhoods. Last time i went was Feb 87 to watch England v NI at Windsor. Quite an enlightening and moody 2 days. Seen a lot of these walking/taxi tours over the last few years, but what you've done here is quite unique. I've subbed.

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Ha ha definitely come from good Ulster Scots' stock pal. Good Hillbilly heritage 🤣🇬🇧 🇺🇸 ✋️

Aye, those streets behind city hall were renowned for it. Yeah, Europa looking well 👍