Yep, you read that correctly! There are malls in Europe. Often we have the stereotypical image of quaint European streets lined with boutiques. A shop where everybody knows your name because you’re a regular customer. While this is still very true, out in the suburbs there are larger groceries, chain stores, and a mall or two.

Now mind you the mall wasn’t on the scale of say Mall of America or any of those other mega-mall complexes, but it was a decent size with one large chain store, Saturn (like our Best Buy). There were small specialty shops and other larger stores along with restaurants and cafes. However there weren’t any food courts in the mall.

It took us about 25 minutes via tram then bus to reach City Park Mall! We were going to the Saturn store in order to buy a computer monitor and Amazon Fire Stick so we could watch TV. We decided to explore the mall first. Seamus found a wallet and we ate at one of the cafeteria styled restaurants. It was a bit confusing at first, but then we figured out how to select our food and pay.

We purchased the items needed at Saturn, packed them in our personal shopping bags (you have to bring your own bags to most shops), and returned home. Robert and Liam had our mini makeshift TV up and running fairly quickly. The sound comes from our Bluetooth speaker we purchased a few days earlier. We then sat back and enjoyed watching on Netflix, The Batman Lego Movie!!