Shaftesbury Square

I learned that they call this junction the “Golden Mile” due to the amount of the surrounding working-class areas, connection to main streets, and the percentage of restaurants or pubs connected to it. Perhaps this is why it felt uneasy when I began the recordings in March and there was no one around because everyone was told to be home and this area would usually have a larger number of the population surrounding or walking about. Returning to this spot after all these months felt like almost nothing had happened, that we just skipped 6-months of lockdown and everyone returned to what they were doing before that. Traffic, people, restaurants, pubs, they were all there and functioning again. I could not tell in this particular moment that anything had happened to Belfast. – Georgios Varoutsos (https://georgiosvaroutsos.com/covid-19/)