Bangor folk often complain about there being no shops in Bangor. Something I never really understood as the town/city centre is littered with shops. Shops that people do shop in, which, (I guess), others don’t shop in. So they don’t consider them to be shops. At the same time, if people did actually shop in […]
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You’d think that a 37-acre park, and what is probably the main outdoor recreational and sports facility in Bangor, would be well signposted and heard of. Not really. A massive park within metres of Bangor Main Street (following a slight detour along Hamilton Road). While Ward Park in Bangor is a popular escape for locals,
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There is a general tick list for tourists to Bangor and Northern Ireland, with fish and chips often being up there alongside the unmissable Ulster Fry. But traditional Northern Irish food goes much further (our traditional Northern Irish food guide here) and here we hope to help you track down the best of it at
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Check our Facebook for further details. During lockdown (2020) I started a local food blog (Fanfan’s Kitchen: Proper Thai Food) to share my passion for Asian and Thai food, along with weekly deliveries of home-cooked Thai food to keep friends and family entertained (and fed). With the easing of restrictions, I opened my Thai food
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Bangor Market takes place every Wednesday (07:00am to 13:00pm) in the ASDA car park next to Market Street. And were I to sum it up in one word it would probably be ‘underwhelming’. But it does have potential and we recently tested trading at Bangor Market to relative success. Otherwise there is a bit of
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Our past treasure hunts in Bangor have normally followed loopy circle routes ending up back where they started (like our Bangor Town Centre Treasure Hunt). But this is not so easy when walking the North Down Coastal Path as it’s really just one big straight-ish line along the scenic coastline from Bangor to Holywood. So
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I hate myself for not finding the new mini Asian Supermarket in Bangor (World Foods) before the whole self-isolation and COVID quarantine goings-on. As I’ve been itching for months to do a run to the Asia Supermarket in Belfast only I was unable to due to essential travel regulations. And a tasty Pad Kaprao or
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This is one of our resurrected ‘Jenny Watts Treasure Hunts’ only made simpler and more ‘tourist-friendly’ with circle routes and easier questions and answers. On the off-chance we ever find some tourists here. The ‘Bangor Town Centre Treasure Hunt’ therefore follows a circular route from the lower car parks of Castle Park at North Down
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The ‘Bangor West Treasure Hunt’ follows a circle route between Strickland’ Glen and Ker Wood and along the North Down Coastal Path, so you can really start anywhere at any clue along the way. At the same time, some starts are more accessible than others, and this will also depend on how you plan to
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“We’re so lucky to have this on our doorstep”. This would be the daily chitchat of locals on our ‘self-isolation escapes’ as we follow the nearby stretch of the North Down Coastal Path in the Bangor West area. Strickland’s Glen would be a quieter and more convenient middle point between the two busier sections of
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