Review: Temple Bar Food Markets

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Every Saturday Mr. Ox and I take our re-useable cotton bags down to the Temple Bar food market to stock up on our local organic veggies and meat for the week. Mr. Ox is partial to the coffee (the BEST in Dublin, hands down) while I love the warm apple juice (with a sneaky shot of apple brandy to keep the chill out) and the vegan wheat free treats. Shopping at these types of markets are good for the environment and for your health (not to mention the hip pocket) because you are buying good, local, organic, sustainably produced food from people who care, thus cutting down on transport costs and keeping Irish money in Ireland. No greedy global brand rapping and pillaging the earth with carcinogenic substances here. So do something good for yourself, the environment and the community and give your local market a go, I'm sure you will be pleasantly surprised.

Missed me?

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Sorry posting has been a bit light on lately, Mr. Ox and I just got back from a week in London.
I have a confession to make...I hate London, well I DID hate London, until this trip.
This was my 6th trip to London and finally I found things to like about the city. To me its always seemed gray, dirty, cold, expensive with more Australians than Australia. But it has it's good points like:

Sunshine

After leaving my job last week, Husband and I have been spending lots of time laying around in the sun in various parks around Dublin, which is good for your health, haven't you heard?

Tourist in your town: The Guinness Storehouse

Recently Sister-in-law came to stay. So like good little tour guides, we did the ttourist thing around Dublin. One of the things she really wanted to do was have a pint of the black stuff in the gravity bar at St James Gate. So off we trotted.
Now, I have to say that I was not expecting much, I haven't heard many good things about the old storehouse, but I was pleasantly suprised. An adult ticket will set you back E15 (a little price-y but that's Dublin for you) but I ever the super organised bargin hunter, order our ticktets online the night before and secured a 10% discount. I would highly recommend doing this as you get to skip the long queue as well.