The main exhibition site was a brightly-coloured village of tents and domes, containing bars, amusements and a funfair, set on the embankment where Botanic Gardens stretches down to the River Lagan.
From the top of the lifeless hotel you got a good view of the place - the children's funfair with it's rusted big wheel, the hospital with a huge Soviet style slogan that reads The health of the people is the wealth of the country - which, given what happened here, makes further comment superfluous.