Trying something different can add a spice of life to the lifestyle we live
These days in Ireland I’ve seen bthe huge variety of international restauraunts in towns and cities and some like to try something different like Shamus O’Loan who decided to take a dander down Chichester Street to see what other kinds of food was available .
He stopped at this Italian restaurant there and looked in through the window .
He was in a kind of a daze almost like being somewhere in the twilight zone .
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So in he goes to this Italian restaurant in the centre of Belfast and sat himself down .
Within five minutes he had ordered a bottle of red wine and started sipping on that until his meal was ready .
Half drunk watching people walking past outside in Chichester Street you could say just for a moment he felt aloofly unaware of where he was however as he sat there with a knife and fork beside his plate of spaghetti bolognaise at his table for one by the window near the door he was like a goldfish out of its bowl, or like a bowler hat in need of a Irish head, or indeed even more like he was a stranger on the shore.
Anyway your man Shamus smiled as the waiter approached and said in a strong Belfast accent
"Would you like to have some Lanza with that ?" "Sure"
said Shamus not having a clue what the waiter had meant . So the next thing , Mario Lanza was singing through the speakers in the restaurant .
Shamus was now feeling more Italian and this lingering aroma of romance swept through his wee head as he started daydreaming of being someone , somewhere else instead of being there in this wee Italian restaurant in Belfast .
Like a rose of summer on a cold winters day he plucked up the courage to sing along with Lanza and as he did he imagined in his mind that he was sitting inside a curragh boat in Venice somewhere with people all around singing old ballad songs in boats afloat on a river where they had found a place called home .
Shamus was still floating away in the middle of the day and was brought back to reality by your man the waiter who whispered,
"Would you like to pay the bill?" "Sure"
said Shamus half drunk on love and red wine in the twilight zone somewhere on Chichester Street . So as he took the last few sips of his red wine he decided maybe it was time to get up on his own two feet to either pay the bill up or make a run for it .
Half of him wanted to run but the better half of him decided to pay the bill and so he slowly took out his wallet and paid what was owed them walked back out to where the night life of Belfast had only just begun and in the evening he found some shop front signs advertising a Full Irish Breakfast which of course can be eaten at any time of the day .
After eating the spaghetti bolognaise he had a craving for something more hearty and delicious and decided to have an Ulster fry up and a pint of Guinness , so in went Shamus for his full Irish breakfast and immediately he found himself back In Northern Ireland again with the people he knew .
Born of their seeds, kingdom will rise against kingdom, one will hold great mysteries, one will turn the tide and one will not be bound. War is fought, not only on the field but also within the mind. Nothing is what it seems take nothing for granted.
Taerak's Void
(Book One of Fantastica)
A new series by multiple award winning author, M. R. Mathias
After finding a strange medallion and some maps with markings that no one in his village can understand, Braxton Bray decides to
