Do you like your food? Ireland has a reputation for some of the best food in the world so why not have your say! The search is on for Ireland's Top Foodie Town 2014.

The Top 10 Foodie Towns have been announced and Voting is Open. 

The Top 10 Towns are: 

Cork 

Dingle

Galway

Howth

Kilkenny

Kinsale

Lisdoonvarna

Loop Head Peninsula 

Sligo 

Westport & Clew Bay Area

Which is your Top Foodie Town?

To vote or find out more about Ireland's Top Foodie Town visit 

Foodie Towns on Facebook or Foodie Towns

I know many of my bloggers are not from Ireland, however you should all know about The Blog Awards Ireland 2012. As you all know Ireland is a small country, divided into counties. Our counties are quite small geographically and therefore we have a strong sense of community spirit and know a lot of people at a local level. But blog land is totally different, it is my connection with the rest of the world. I follow blogs from all over the world, read about the culture and lifestyles from Australia to Alaska and visit online shops from all over the globe. I have over 300 followers on my blog and I have never met one of you but the Blog Awards Ireland is bringing together the Irish online community with a single event to celebrate blogging right here in Ireland. Since I started blogging in 2009, the number of Irish visiting my blog has increased dramatically.

My blog is purely a blog on my life in the countryside, my home and basically all things nice... I do not have an online business and I do not benefit financially from my blog, but I suppose in my own way I do promote Ireland, particularly rural Ireland and all things rural from our heritage, our wildlife and our crafts to our shops, our lifestyle and our traditions. My blog is very basic in style, layout and content but I enjoy blogging and I would much rather blog and read all about other people's lives, their businesses and their culture than watch tv.

I am going off the point here so basically what I want to say is, if you follow any blogs from Ireland and think they are worthy of being nominated for an award, you should visit the Blog Awards Ireland. Nominations close on 16th July.

 

Blog Awards Ireland

Hello my dear blog friend and followers

I had news this week that my Country Heritage Blog  has been longlisted in the Best Art and Culture Blog(sponsored by Poetry Ireland)  category of the Irish Blog Awards 2010. I don't know who nominated my blog as it is the blog that I update the least. I had never heard of the Irish Blog Awards until about a month ago. I'm very grateful to get longlisted and thanks to all my blog friends which ever of my blogs you visit :-)

A big thank you to Bellaboo from Bellascountry for the Sunshine Award. You should go take a look around her blog it is beautiful and Bella the Golden Retriever is so cute. With all these dull days, a little sunshine would be nice and here it is in the form of the Sunshine Award to brighten up my day.

I have passed on a number of awards last month and again last week so instead of passing on this sunshine award, I decided to think of the people less well off than myself and hope for sunshine and happiness in their lives. May the messenger of love send some light to these people!