Sunday Brunch and Jazz at the Gibson Hotel

Enid (of renovating lpa) and I arranged to meet our friend Alice for brunch in The Gibson Hotel this morning.We had a good old catch up :-)And the food wasn't half bad either!First up a little amuse bouche Strawberry yoghurt smoothie and little fruit and custard pastry.These were a really cute teeny tiny size.  I put my ring on the plate to show the scale - the first photo I took made them look huge.Starter We ordered...

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Roly's Bistro & Cafe

We had a nice night out on "the southside" last night.  Myself, Enid, David and Ciaran ate out in Roly's Bistro in Ballsbridge - the cafe part.I have eaten in Roly's a few times, a long time ago...must be about 8 years ago...and was interested to see that they have added a cafe and bakery to their stable.  We chose the cafe as our venue as we were looking for somewhere a little more casual then the (beautiful) restaurant.  The...

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Tedfest - festival 2014 in Saleen, Wexford

This weekend is a long weekend in Ireland which means no work on Monday, hooray!  Friends of ours hosted a festival in their holiday home beside the beach in County Wexford. All the essentials, car packed up and ready to go.The theme of the festival was "Tedfest" which is a celebration of the tv comedy show Father Ted so we all dressed up as different characters from the program. Myself and Aileen were "lovely girls" and Sue was...

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