Dado is going to America for a while so we rented a car for a mid-week visit to Kilkenny--actually, CW and DCs went to visit Dado. They dropped me at the Thomastown Train Station-makes Edmonds Depot look like Grand Central--for a two hour ride to Dublin. Yes, the big city (of Ireland). After several months in Cork, arriving in Dublin is like being on a different planet--smooth, suave, sophisticated--at least by Irish standards. I was travelling to Dublin under the pretext of going to the Irish Food Show--lots and lots of cheese--as well as a couple of nights of "researching" wine bars as we are thinking about taking the wine bar plunge in quiet little Cork. The food show was like all the others I have attended over the years. The highlight was finally meeting John Gowan, who owns Cork City Coffee Roasters. Great coffee and John is married to an Edmonds gal (nee Strickland) and he used to live there. His retail store happens to be a few doors down from where we are thinking about opening the wine bar--it will be an Edmonds Dynasty! Time to drink some wine! Saturday, October 4, 2008
A trip to the Big City...
Dado is going to America for a while so we rented a car for a mid-week visit to Kilkenny--actually, CW and DCs went to visit Dado. They dropped me at the Thomastown Train Station-makes Edmonds Depot look like Grand Central--for a two hour ride to Dublin. Yes, the big city (of Ireland). After several months in Cork, arriving in Dublin is like being on a different planet--smooth, suave, sophisticated--at least by Irish standards. I was travelling to Dublin under the pretext of going to the Irish Food Show--lots and lots of cheese--as well as a couple of nights of "researching" wine bars as we are thinking about taking the wine bar plunge in quiet little Cork. The food show was like all the others I have attended over the years. The highlight was finally meeting John Gowan, who owns Cork City Coffee Roasters. Great coffee and John is married to an Edmonds gal (nee Strickland) and he used to live there. His retail store happens to be a few doors down from where we are thinking about opening the wine bar--it will be an Edmonds Dynasty! Time to drink some wine! 