Looking for something to do on a Sunday? Flea Market is the answer.
Open from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. this original market takes place the last sunday of every month in the Co-op of Newmarket square, Dublin 8, in other words going out from Griffith college towards St. Patrick's cathedral take the left road just before the cathedral and walk straight head for five minutes following the brown signals, you will end up in a open-space full of stalls selling from vintage clothes to retro furnitures. Among these 60 stalls there is one that actually looks like a real furnitures/antiques shop: it has got old radios still working, couches 60s style, clocks, lamps and so on. In the middle of the square there are little chairs and tables upon which there are children's table-games and many families gather there with their children eating sandwiches and getting some rest from the crazy shopping.
But if you thought that was the market, you didn't see anything yet, the actual Flea market takes place inside a huge white tent beside the open-space which you can have access through a small door. Since the first step in you are overwhelmed by a welcoming smell of spicy food and pizza that combined to the lounge music, played through stereo speakers, makes your shopping even more pleasant and relaxing.
Sometimes jazz bands play on a stage set at the end of the tent in front of a big window that opens to a balcony full of tables and benches where ,on a sunny day, you can seat with your friends and eat delicious food that you can buy in the three or four stalls on the left side at the end of the tent : the first one , starting from the bottom, is a pizzeria/cafe where the chef comes from Naples and the most of the staff is italian so ,for a very low price (only 7euros), you can get a very good pizza made with original ingredients; going on ,there's a small stall selling cakes and tarts which is perfect for having breakfast and still really cheap, then there is one selling tasty and big falafel with everything you want inside and the last one is a greek cuisine's stall. So you are plenty of choices and when you get the food you want you can seat on comfortable brown leather couches or benches around wooden tables inside, just beside the food-stalls and on the balcony outside.
Sometimes jazz bands play on a stage set at the end of the tent in front of a big window that opens to a balcony full of tables and benches where ,on a sunny day, you can seat with your friends and eat delicious food that you can buy in the three or four stalls on the left side at the end of the tent : the first one , starting from the bottom, is a pizzeria/cafe where the chef comes from Naples and the most of the staff is italian so ,for a very low price (only 7euros), you can get a very good pizza made with original ingredients; going on ,there's a small stall selling cakes and tarts which is perfect for having breakfast and still really cheap, then there is one selling tasty and big falafel with everything you want inside and the last one is a greek cuisine's stall. So you are plenty of choices and when you get the food you want you can seat on comfortable brown leather couches or benches around wooden tables inside, just beside the food-stalls and on the balcony outside.
In conclusion the Flea market is an amazing place to spend a whole day eating good food, buying quality clothes and discovering new pieces of Art and it definitely has become one of my favorite places in Dublin.
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| Me and my friend Carlotta trying on some fancy glasses by Molloy and Dowling a shop in Dublin which had a stall in the Fleamarket. |
