German Christmas Market

Stench Blossoms

I am gonna put on so much weight this christmas.

liabhroidi

they felt it would damage business in Galway, that traders arent paying rates, VAT etc. and of course that they didn't think of it first. Had their mouthpieces on the case as well until they were shamed into accepting that it can only do good.

liabhroidi

liabhroidi wrote: »

they felt it would damage business in Galway, that traders arent paying rates, VAT etc. and of course that they didn't think of it first. Had their mouthpieces on the case as well until they were shamed into accepting that it can only do good.

have you a link to something or is it just hear say

Calluna

I have a feeling it's going to be really well embraced by the people of Galway. We were missing a 'festival' at Christmas. Another way to keep tourism going in the west. Can't wait!

TristanPeter

I drove past earlier and I couldn't help but think that the chalets look like cheap garden sheds. Steel and plywood. Not very log-cabin/winter wonderland but I'm sure they will be decorated before the 17th. I'm really looking forward to it...no matter what they look like

Storm 10

TristanPeter wrote: »

I drove past earlier and I couldn't help but think that the chalets look like cheap garden sheds. Steel and plywood. Not very log-cabin/winter wonderland but I'm sure they will be decorated before the 17th. I'm really looking forward to it...no matter what they look like

Yes I must admit I thought the same when I drove by this morning, I was at the one in Manchester and they had real log built cabins that looked great. I will hold off what I think until it opens but I did not like the look of the metal huts and what look like garden sheds.

Asmodean

I guess that when lights/decorations etc are plastered all over the place it'll look much more authentic. Really can't wait to have a good old wander around it. Getting excited now.

mikom

TristanPeter wrote: »

Steel and plywood.

Storm 10 wrote: »

I will hold off what I think until it opens but I did not like the look of the metal huts

It's Krups steel though....

Mrs OBumble

TristanPeter wrote: »

I drove past earlier and I couldn't help but think that the chalets look like cheap garden sheds.

Indeed, hence Mr Just's comment about allotments in the other thread. He's updated his opinion since, though: not interested any more 'cos there are too many sheds so there won't be enough room for plants.

rivalius13

Well played there lads.

s_carnage

Site back up and running.

Galway Christmas Market

rivalius13

Aaaaaaand down again. Guessing they're having issues and it's NOT that they didn't pay their host enough.

brianthebard

rivalius13 wrote: »

Aaaaaaand down again. Guessing they're having issues and it's NOT that they didn't pay their host enough.

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/galwaychristmasmarket.ie

Its just you broseph. Do you have a grudge against the market or something?

rivalius13

brianthebard wrote: »

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/galwaychristmasmarket.ie

Its just you broseph. Do you have a grudge against the market or something?

**** no, I can't wait to get down to it. Weird, it seems to be down in all my browsers...do they share caches? I thought they had their own caches...

....maybe the market has a grudge against me!

Fuctifino

Maybe its that macbook of yours

brianthebard

rivalius13 wrote: »

**** no, I can't wait to get down to it. Weird, it seems to be down in all my browsers...do they share caches? I thought they had their own caches...

....maybe the market has a grudge against me!

Lol fair enough sorry for misreading your tone in that case. I have no idea what's wrong with your browser but it must just be you at this stage tbh. Were you looking for something in particular or just wanted a browse? Did you put http:// before the address to see if that made a difference?

rivalius13

brianthebard wrote: »

Lol fair enough sorry for misreading your tone in that case. I have no idea what's wrong with your browser but it must just be you at this stage tbh. Were you looking for something in particular or just wanted a browse? Did you put http:// before the address to see if that made a difference?

Nah, just wanted to read through the traders to get hungry before breakfast. Realised afterwards it still works on my iPhone, so all is well.

And chrome removes the http:// from URLs now, which explains it's absence.


Can't get there on my home wi-fi at all it turns out. Very odd....phone on 3G, all good, phone on wi-fi? Feck off! Very odd...

TristanPeter

I was chatting to one of the staff members in The Meyrick/Fagan's earlier about the Christmas market. She told me that they secured the tender for the operation of the beer keller. I asked her if there was any truth in the cost of a pint being around the €9 mark and she said that that was the (approximate) cost for a stein which, she said, is equivalent to 2.2 pints. That's pretty cool if it's correct. She also said that customer's have to pay a deposit for the stein which will be returned when the customer hands it back and also, in terms of the beer on tap, there won't be any big brand names e.g. Heineken, Guinness, Carlsberg etc.

pleasant Co.

TristanPeter wrote: »

in terms of the beer on tap, there won't be any big brand names e.g. Heineken, Guinness, Carlsberg etc.

So they might serve good beer! we really get served some amount of ****e over here.

Head The Wall

€4.10 a pint isn't great value considering we'll be buying in bulk. I can get a pitcher of Bavaria for €7 in the Cellar. I'm no beer snob as all beer basically tastes the same to me so it's all about the moolah

Glad I spotted this thread on the homepage.

Might venture to over to the west for this

thesandeman

Site still down and its opening at 6 I think. Not a very good start.

pleasant Co.

Site's working fine for me

moonflower

thesandeman wrote: »

Site still down and its opening at 6 I think. Not a very good start.

Site isn't down for me.

Can't wait to go for a look tonight!

thesandeman

Strange. It just sends me to LetsHost :-S

snubbleste

Irish people flock to faux german religious festival based collection of stalls run by englishmen

dolphin city

some of the stalls are up and running - about ten of them. mostly food - hot dogs, sausages, rolls with pork in them, coffees, hot chocolate with baileys stall, nugget stall, chocolate villages, stall, paealla stall, mccambridges has a stall there, I think Devaney's has a stall there but not sure - (its a cheap watch stall like at the races). Also a big garish carousel in the middle of everything.There was hardly anybody there but yet it felt claustraphobic - the space between each row of stalls is only the width of the walkway through the square so it will be quite a push when it is busy. I think it is officially opening tonight. Word of warning - watch your bags - saw a few shady characters hanging round already.

fifib

anyone get the email going round with a list of all the stalls/vendors at the market? seems theres alot going to be there

rivalius13

thesandeman wrote: »

Strange. It just sends me to LetsHost :-S

Nice to know it's not just me they hate. Who's your ISP? Could be some weird issue there...

mikom

snubbleste wrote: »

Irish people flock to faux german religious festival based collection of stalls run by englishmen

Switch off our Japanese Tv showing American tv shows, and get our arses up off our Swedish sofas.
Drive to a faux german religious festival in German and Japanese cars
Whilst there we'll eat some Chinese noodles and Belgian chocolate
Getting dark and cold, so we check the time on our Swiss watches and dream of holidays on a Spanish beach
Get home and post a rant about Roma's on the Galway forum.

Repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse........