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Grafton Street is
ten minutes walk from our front door, across the
Liffey & just past Trinity College front door.
Popular Department Stores such as Marks &
Spencers, Brown Thomas and BT2 and smaller high
street chains including Vero Moda, Next, Oasis,
A-Wear, River Island can all be found on Grafton
Street. Up market stores such as Pia Bang,
Reiss, Monsoon and Laura Ashley can also be
found on this Dublin shopping street.
Grafton Street is an ideal place for buying
footwear. Shoe-shops like Korkys, Zerep,
Barretts, Nine West and Bally provide a wide
range of quality shoes. For gifts, there's the
Dublin bookshop, the Body Shop, Tie rack, the
Dublin Jewellery institution that is Weirs,
along with other jewellers like Ernest Jones,
Gavronski, West and another branch of Fields.
There's the Camera Centre and a Spectra Photo to
get your pictures developed. If you've phone
troubles, there are branches of O2, Vodaphone
and Carphone Warehouse. There are three
pharmacies including a Boots, various banks and
a few newsagents.
The very popular St. Stephens Green Shopping
Centre can be found at the top of Grafton
Street. An ideal location for gift shopping,
grabbing a bite to eat, spending a Sunday
afternoon browsing, shoppers can find almost
anything at the Green. Just a few minutes off
Grafton Street, shoppers will find Powerscourt
Shopping Centre. . This speciality shopping
centre provides some great antique shops
including Courtville Antiques, Silver Shop and
Delphi Antiques. There is also a design center
where some of Dublin's best fashion designers
sell their work. Culture is also a very
important aspect of this Georgian Shopping
Centre. There are two art galleries and easy
listening piano recitals are often performed.
Powerscourt also offers a tour twice a week
demonstrating what it would have been like to
live in the eighteenth century.
A real shoppers paradise can be found at the
bottom of Grafton Street. Avoca is a
mini-department store on the bottom of Grafton
Street. Avoca is a 7 level mini-department store
with a colourful mix-match of men and women's
fashion, kids clothes, household goods,
aromatics, ceramics and lots more. And when your
shopping frenzy ends, why not relax in the award
winning Avoca Café.
Grafton
Street is full of high street and upmarket
shops, department stores and nearby shopping
centres. It is the perfect place for
window-shopping, and listening to street
performers. Or if you are a die-hard shopper,
this pedestrianised street won't let you down,
providing some of the best shops in
Dublin.
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