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Another piece of fab unexpected publicity for The Dock this week – an article in PezCycling News<\/a>. \u00a0It’s well worth clicking through to read the whole article – as well as calling in for a coffee at The Dock, Gordan followed the entire journey of the Giro through Ireland, North and South, and reflects on the different responses it evoked. \u00a0Makes me proud to be Belfastian!<\/p>\n

Here’s the section concerning The Dock (text and photos by Gordan Cameron):<\/p>\n

\"giro14st03gc-honesty1\"<\/a>One part of Belfast that has had a cash injection is the Titanic Quarter and the area around the River Lagan\u2019s east bank. This is the heart of what was the shipbuilding district, where thousands labored on the Titanic among other ships. The Harland and Wolff cranes, Samson and Goliath, still tower into the sky.<\/address>\n
Reverend Chris Bennett oversees the Dock Caf\u00e9 in Belfast\u2019s Titanic Quarter. This is a brand new venture which symbolises a collaboration between communities for the community. And everything that people drink out of, or sit in, has a story.<\/address>\n
\"giro14st03gc-honesty3\"<\/a>\u201cEvery mug is fabulous but none of them match! Every chair, every table \u2026 I can tell you who\u2019s granny gave us that sofa or who was changing round their dining room and gave that table and chairs. Everything has been donated, and the honesty box ethos isn\u2019t just how you pay for your coffee. It\u2019s in the whole caf\u00e9. People give what they can to support this space and their local community.\u201d<\/address>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re passionate about good news for Belfast. This is the shape of the city that we\u2019ve been dreaming of and hoping for the last couple of \"giro14st03gc-honesty2\"<\/a>decades \u2026 this feels like the chance to start again, because this [the Titanic Quarter] was just wasteland ten years ago.\u201d<\/address>\n
\u201cThis is a brand new community that we\u2019re building together. This caf\u00e9 is actually run by the churches working together, Catholic and Protestant, and that\u2019s the global image of Belfast \u2026 where Catholics and Protestants are throwing bricks at each other but here we are serving coffees together and the chance to live that out is so exciting for us.\u201d<\/span><\/address>\n

On a completely unrelated note, has anyone noticed the big change in the Belfast skyline today? \u00a0No not just the fact that the sky is blue – the Blackford Dolphin has departed Belfast<\/a>, bound for the North Sea, tracing the same route down Belfast Lough as Titanic and countless other ships before and since…<\/span><\/p>\n

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These photos were all tweeted by various people who watched the Dolphin depart from various vantage points around the city (including the windows of the Drawing Office)… I think we’ll actually miss it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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