I was thinking this morning that I should go up to Northern Ireland to go shopping again. Some things are cheaper there, like food and clothing – even with the conversion rate from pounds sterling to euros, and others are not eg. Petrol, cost of living, etc. It’s because of the tax rate difference between the UK and Ireland. Well, that, and retailers from the UK just charge those in Ireland a lot more than they maybe should to those in Ireland because they have to have the items shipped to the UK and then re-shipped to the lower half of the island.

The picture at the top is from just above Newry, at the Bernish Overlook, looking the town of Newry. It’s from the last trip I made (I snagged a dress for 78 pounds that was selling in Dublin for double that!), and as you can see, there was a snowstorm moving in.