Bratty on TV could be one of the best things ever

:-D

I think the best bit of advice is: If somebody picks a fight with you, point at some random bloke and say (In a very thick Scottish accent) "I think you'll find he's from England"

This should save you.

Hang on a sec' Bratty's going to Northern Ireland?

How long before Manchester gets blown up again?

Seriously Bratty - just go, enjoy the scenery get the car and try not to speak... at all. To anyone.

No, really. I happen to work in the bit of Manchester that got blown up last time

well I must say im VERY impressed, I assumed Belfast was going to be a dump but its really nice sunny weather, amazing drunk accents which are really funny to listen to! and the Irish here seem to be that little bit prettier than Scots.

I got in trouble by security at the airport for taking pics of the planes so had to delete the pics but I got recovery software so I got all the deleted pics back

great country, great people shame I didnt have too much time to explore as belfast seems massive! and I saw an actual Irish armoured riot land rover vehicle (always wanted to see one of them )

atmosphere of Northern Ireland makes me feel as though im in newcastle or somewhere in England similar "feel"

france next on the agenda

Well Newcastle is full of Irish and Northern Irish students, thankfully not for much longer, reclaim the city in a month

Seriously? That's so lame - loads of people want to shoot planes at airports. Even I've got a few shots from various trips, although needless to say they're rubbish - and on film so I cba to scan them in.

There are usually signs about no photography at passport control, but there's usually a viewing gallery of sorts specifically so you can get a good view of the planes coming in and out. I used to absolutely love it when I was a kid, and even now I still get a bit of a kick out of watching them.

Bratty if there's one thing the main two communities in Northern Ireland can agree on, it's that the vehicle you saw would be better described as 'British'*

* I'm assuming it was one of these:



Used to look like this, but the colour was deemed a bit militaristic for the peace process era:

and you wont see many of these then

Now they don't want you at the airport unless you are travelling or dropping someone off.

I'm not actually sure they can demand you delete images, if the law is anything to go by.

Correct. They need a court order for that.

Mark

Soldiers? No, you won't any more

Hint - if photographing in contentious areas, have a WiFi enabled card in your camera and a MiFi dongle. The card should upload pictures you a remote server automatically for you. You can delete them all you want off the card, but your remote server will have copies.

I think file recovery is just as easy and far cheaper.

I was just trying to work out how long it would take 100 15MB RAW images to upload to the cloud...