A Visit To The English Market In Cork 🇮🇪

This blog post is dedicated to 

The English covered market in Cork 

It is Europes largest covered market 

And has been visited by celebrities and 

Even The Queen Herself 

Here's the link for the market

http://www.englishmarket.ie

I did a video on it but it's not edited yet

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The market was opened in 1610

Sonja is a regular in the market 

Now I was thinking like the local market down the high street 

With cheap tacky gifts and nick knacks 

But I was happily surprised 

The whole place is just giant market stalls and stands 

that serve 75% 

Food and drink 

Every stool you visit you are met by a

Pleathera of sights and smells 

All the smells were ok apart from the fish section 

Omg there was sooooo much 

Amazing 

FRESH LOCAL PRODUCE 

For you Louise Usher they had 

Grass fed Irish beef lol (inside joke) 

in the stands and it was all colourful and vibrant 

Everyone was friendly and talking to people 

It really as something different 

The stools range from 

Butchers,fishmongers, patisseries, cake makers, clothes stalls 

Drink stalks, and souvenir and gift stalls there was fruit and veg a plenty to 

It certainly gives the appeal and the though of 

Amazing he me cooked food and stews 

Being served in the homes around Cork 

I would defiantly reccomend this to anyone as a stop if they are ever in Cork 

And don't eat before you go there as there is food on the go in there 

I had a beautiful hot Cumberland sausage baguette 

With all the trimmings from 

O'Flynns Gourmet Sausage Company for €6 

It was to die for and heavenly 

And being piggy I also bout a mini cheesecake from 

A little stall called Heavens Cakes 

www.heavencakes.ie 

My Instagram post read 

GET IN MY FACE YOU FILTHY BEAST 

#StephenInIreland Day 3

So today I went on an open top tour bus around Cork

http://www.discoverireland.ie/corkcity

The video link is here 

It's a time lapse video from the open top bus 

https://youtu.be/tzEINqU5aSo

The place is pretty spectacular and full of culture and history 

From what I am told the city is still developing 

And growing in diversity 

The open top bus takes 1hr25 and takes you on a tour of 

The whole of cork from the city to the rural parts 

And it boast 18000sqaure meters of greens and parklands 

Which for the largest city in Ireland is pretty amazing 

The trip costs €13 which is a reasonable price 

I visited 

The Enlgish Market which was a rich and wide market 

It's the largest indoor market in Europe and was visited by 

The queen Her majesty herself 

The market was 1st opened in 1610 

The wide range of stalls and kiosks are amazing 

And it's full of everything you could want to buy 

Especially anything to do with food 

Oh my god there was food everywhere 

And it all looked so amazing 

There is awhile blog post coming up on that tomorrow 

You get taken to the main station that connects Cork with Dublin 

Next is Shandon Bells 

The church if St Anne which is famous for having 8 bells

Which first rang on 7th December 1752

This is also know as the Four faced Liar

Next stop was Cork City Gaol (Jail) 

The prison was opened in 1824 and closed in 1923 

Renowned as the Women's Gaol 

A spectacular escape was made from here in November 1923 

Hence why they closed it down 

Out the front of the prison in 3 holes over the door at the top 

Of the building 

These holes are from where convicts were hung in front of people 

Along the route next is UCC (University College Cork)

The campus is large and now expands across the whole city 

But the main site first opened its doors 

Way back on the 7th November 1849 

After this we travel back round the city 

Passed the city hall and back to the start of the tour 

This is such a great scenic tour and I learnt lots of 

Information about the city 

It is defiantly worth the visit 

Below is the link of Cork and what to do 

#StephenInIreland Day 2

So today was my first full day in Ireland 

I got off the plane and we headed straight out on our first adventure 

Here is the link to the video 

https://youtu.be/Pq0rLHwHv3A

But I am writing my adventure too 

We dropped our bags of at the house and Sonja and the girls 

Told me we were heading straight out 

So we headed to Cobh know as queens town 

Just outside cork 

This is where the last of the tender boats 

were moored that picked up the last 123 people 

that were taking the fateful journey on the RMS Titanic 

The white star offices and docks are located here and the was a 

Centre set up for the titanic centerany year of 2012 

We had the tour around the museum 

Where they had replica copies of cabins and the boats 

And gave the full story of the titanic 

All its facts and figures 

And the fateful journey of the last people 

That were to board the titanic 

We left the exhibition and I picked up some souvenirs 

Later on that day we took the ferry back across and headed back to the house 

The evening was spent in the family house 

we ate dinner and waited for Noaise to come home 

where we sat up watched some TV and 

Sonja filmed me trying to talk Irish from a child's text book 

It was very difficult 

So I headed to bed at about 12:30 

And uploaded 2 videos and write a blog post 

So that was day 1 blog 

Hope you all come back for tomorrow's ! 

On another exciting adventure in Ireland with me