Today I visited to the Abbotsford Convent Supper Market, which is held on Friday nights during summer months. There were a few stalls open, which included vendors selling candles, jewellery, organic dried fruits and handmade leather notebooks. Lentils As Anything, Kappaya and Convent Bakery were open and busy with patrons. There weren't as many food stalls as I thought there'd be. I really wanted to try the gozleme stall, but it didn't make an appearance. Other than the restaurants, there was a Mexican stall, Himalayan Sherpa (which has a restaurant...

At Marks and Spencer on Princes St we went into the food hall. We bought dinner from here, because for the next few days we’ll be eating out. It was a big supermarket with a small stall selling miso soup with noodles, which was a bit random, burgers, paninis (panini rolls with filling) and sandwiches. At their bakery they had sweet pastries, croissants, normal bread, commercially baked bread and breads like brioche Irish bread and Irish potato bread. They had a huge selection of meals that were ready...

For dinner we went into Sainsbury’s (a supermarket) and got some fruit (blackberries, 2 punnets for ₤3, plums, ₤2) a tub of plain briyani rice and a tub of mushroom briyani rice (₤2 each), 2 boxes of sushi (₤2.90 each) and a box of Chinese-style chicken drumlettes and wings (₤2.69). By the time we started eating it was past 8pm. The raspberries were not as nice as I was expecting, but not too bad. Some were a bit sour, some were a bit sweet, some didn’t have much...

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