Dublin Christmas Market
If you live in or work near our capital here in Ireland, you've probably seen this already, but there's a pretty great Christmas Market in Dublin City at the moment. The market runs along the north side of Stephen's Green, and, I have to say, is very impressive. The stands run practically the full length of the green and consist of everything from food, and sweets to hand made gifts and other trinkets.
This is the first year it's been run, and apparently it's a great success. When I first heard about it I was prepared to be sceptical, but I've been to Christmas markets in a few european cities, including Brussels and Vienna, and the Dublin one can hold its own. Here are some photos that I took a little while ago of the market on a sunny weekday morning. Taken with a Fuji X-E1.
We were recently heading to Belfast for a meeting, and because the road from Dublin to Belfast can be a bit boring and monotonous (it’s just one long motorway), my wife and I decided to take the coastal route instead. So, we turned off at Newry and first stopped at Warrenpoint for Lunch, before heading on to Newcastle. I had never taken this route before, and I was quite impressed by the scenery. But it was coming into Newcastle that really blew me away.