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German Christmas Market

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    #212
    WesternNight
    Registered Users Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Had another look around earlier. Finally got a chance to try the hog baguette - very good. Won't need to eat for the rest of the week!

    I noticed that prices in the French bakery have gone up. Bought brownies last week for €1.50 each, they're €1.80 now :eek:

    Also, that jewellery stall that has no currency symbols...I assume that's the one that upped the price because they said it was Sterling? Well, I asked whether the price was Euro and was told that of course it was, what did I expect. So I said "well, there's no symbol so I was just making sure". I was then told that it's the same price tags that they use in England "so you're getting a better deal here". Make of that what you will.


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    #213
    brianthebard
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    WesternNight wrote: »
    Had another look around earlier. Finally got a chance to try the hog baguette - very good. Won't need to eat for the rest of the week!

    I noticed that prices in the French bakery have gone up. Bought brownies last week for €1.50 each, they're €1.80 now :eek:

    Also, that jewellery stall that has no currency symbols...I assume that's the one that upped the price because they said it was Sterling? Well, I asked whether the price was Euro and was told that of course it was, what did I expect. So I said "well, there's no symbol so I was just making sure". I was then told that it's the same price tags that they use in England "so you're getting a better deal here". Make of that what you will.

    Serious chancers at that jewellry stall from the sounds of things! do they sell brass balls as well???


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    #214
    CornsnakeKeeper
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    I went in. Saw one thing i MUST buy.
    Aniseed and lots of it:P
    Also, all that lovely German food needs tasting lmao


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    #215
    [Deleted User]
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    Decided earlier that I'd pick up something from the pick 'n' mix stand at the front. Ensured that I didn't get anything overly heavy and went to get it weighed. They came to a little under a fiver. And, while they were all extremely tasty, I thought they were just too expensive.


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    #216
    xo.mary
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭xo.mary


    I wish there was falafel at this market, I could eat that stuff for the rest of my life.


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    #217
    joeKel73
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    You'll not beat the falafel at the traditional market!


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    #218
    Xiney
    Registered Users Posts: 8,085 ✭✭✭Xiney


    The guys doing the pizzas at the christmas market are the falafel guys from the st nicks market.


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    #219
    xo.mary
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭xo.mary


    Xiney wrote: »
    The guys doing the pizzas at the christmas market are the falafel guys from the st nicks market.

    I know! I went into town yesterday JUST to get some... and he wasn't there. I nearly cried. Then I went to get some nice plain bagels... none left.


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    #220
    joeKel73
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    The falafel stand was there last week! I know the crepe guy (Mick) couldn't get his stand in yesterday with the roads, might have been the same for the falafel guy.


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    #221
    xo.mary
    Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭xo.mary


    foto joe wrote: »
    The falafel stand was there last week! I know the crepe guy (Mick) couldn't get his stand in yesterday with the roads, might have been the same for the falafel guy.

    I was talking to one of the other merchants and he said the same. Also said the crab man's trailer flipped on the road on the way in.


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    #222
    dillodaffs
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    i was there yesterday, it was supposed to be open at 12 but did not start until 1pm. i thought there was little on offer, mostly food stands with the staff standing behind them cooking their bits and pieces with dirty cigarettes hanging from their mouths....em...we can see you...?


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    #223
    Fionn MacCool
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    Oh what a disaster, the stall holders opened at 1 instead of 12 on a freezing cold day...

    The only complaints I can agree with are the lack of local stalls and the general look of the place. White plastic tents =/= Christmas.


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    #224
    Fuctifino
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    I just think it lacks any substance. Very meh about it.


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    #225
    brianthebard
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    dillodaffs wrote: »
    i was there yesterday, it was supposed to be open at 12 but did not start until 1pm. i thought there was little on offer, mostly food stands with the staff standing behind them cooking their bits and pieces with dirty cigarettes hanging from their mouths....em...we can see you...?

    Do not believe.


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    #226
    snubbleste
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    Did you think it was anything german about it op?


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    #227
    ntlbell
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Did you think it was anything german about it op?

    germans love a smoke.


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    #228
    dillodaffs
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    i thought there was nothing german about it...and yes, i did see stallholders smoking while cooking (not all of them mind but i did see it at 2 stalls).

    i thought it a poor, squashed up affair with very little to offer overall.


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    #229
    mikom
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Did you think it was anything german about it op?

    It was efficient....
    at being sh1te.


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    #230
    Mrs OBumble
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    dillodaffs wrote: »
    i was there yesterday, it was supposed to be open at 12 but did not start until 1pm. i thought there was little on offer, mostly food stands with the staff standing behind them cooking their bits and pieces with dirty cigarettes hanging from their mouths....em...we can see you...?

    Pics or it didn't happen.

    The sign on the fence says they open at 1 on Sundays, btw.


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    #231
    Gingganggooley
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    Fuctifino wrote: »
    I just think it lacks any substance. Very meh about it.

    Totally agree with you. I felt deflated by the experience.

    They should not have billed it as an authentic German market because it doesn't even compare, and Eyre Sq. is much to small to host such an event.


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    #232
    JONJO THE MISER
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    Its a heap of crap in fairness, €7 for a pork roll:eek: get real what planet are some of these stall holders living on.


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    #233
    soundbyte
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    dillodaffs wrote: »
    i was there yesterday, it was supposed to be open at 12 but did not start until 1pm. i thought there was little on offer, mostly food stands with the staff standing behind them cooking their bits and pieces with dirty cigarettes hanging from their mouths....em...we can see you...?

    no, it wasn't supposed to start at 12, its 1pm on a sunday.


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    #234
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    Gingganggooley wrote: »
    Totally agree with you. I felt deflated by the experience.

    They should not have billed it as an authentic German market because it doesn't even compare, and Eyre Sq. is much to small to host such an event.

    It is been billed as a continental market and not specifically German, according to the official website. www.galwaychristmasmarket.ie

    I was expecting it to be a pile of sh!te and was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. I love the grub there but expected more Christmas Gifts to be on sale. My kids love it. The atmosphere is excellent and it can only get better next year.


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    #235
    Michael Angelo.
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Michael Angelo.


    It ruins the atmosphere in the square, I always love the way the square looks at Christmas, its like stepping into another world. Now it just looks like a.........comercialised shambles. Even before you step into the "Christmas market" were hit with dfds shipping banners, who I guess ship the "market" around, I could be wrong on that. The place for that type of thing is the old volvo ocean race village and let the city traders fork out to have the place decked out with lights etc etc. It is my belief this is a sham to increase foot traffic in the city center by the Chamber of Commerce. Its a poor showing!


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    #236
    Ficheall
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    Michael Angelo. wrote: »
    It ruins the atmosphere in the square, I always love the way the square looks at Christmas, its like stepping into another world.

    Eh?


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    #237
    Michael Angelo.
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Michael Angelo.


    Ficheall wrote: »
    Eh?

    eh?.. What?.. :confused:


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    #238
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    Nothing... I must have just missed the magical transformation of Eyre Square in previous years.


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    #239
    dolphin city
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    i keep forgetting it's there. and when I do remember I just never have the inkling to go there. Its definitely not on par with daytime volvo ocean race, (which I think they thought might happen). If the Christmas markets are like this all over Europe then I will never travel to one. Its so boring, overpriced and uniteresting.


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    #240
    pleasant Co.
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    dolphin city wrote: »
    Its definitely not on par with daytime volvo ocean race,

    I know!!! what a disgrace! :cool:


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    #241
    TristanPeter
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    It's better than having nothing in Eyre Square...which is imo a miserable-looking place at the best of times. All the park is is a thoroughfare for getting from lr. Eyre Square to Upr. Eyre Square. In good weather the place is taken over by gomies. Any time I walk through it the park benches are taken over by winos. The place is dodgy so anything that helps to promote the productive use of a public place, for the public in general, is a step in the right direction. So what if it's not absolutely amazing. It's a good effort and I'm sure the traders took some risk setting up there given that it was an "unknown quantity" in terms of what the visitor numbers were going to be. As another poster pointed out, it will improve over time if it's successful. It is expensive but you are paying for the novelty I suppose. I must admit; I was hoping the keller would be a log cabin type thing such as I visited in Berlin :)


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