I booked flights to see Belfast on an independent day trip to see the murals before the so-called Peace Process kicked in.
It just seemed such an alien concept and fascinating in a macabre way.
One thing I remember was when the bus went from one side of the wall to the other, the football shirts being worn by the inhabitants being a major marker i.e. Celtic shirts and Rangers shirts respectively.
Many of the town and village names en route to the city from the airport seemed like a catalogue of locations associated with the troubles.
Very alien indeed.