I believe in Karma. I believe that for every good or bad deed we undertake in life, there are ten of those thrown back at us. If you do good, good will come your way, and as silly as this may sound, karma has ruled most of my behaviour since I was a young girl. The past few weeks have really showed me how true Karma is. It all began with the thought that Alan and I were burning the candle both ends: full time jobs, a business to run, blogs, friends, family, household chores... we were constantly on the go and very, very tired. We decided to take a break and spend some time unwinding. We picked beautiful West Cork for this. We stationed ourselves in the little village of Glengarriff, as it is a nice central point in the region with loads of holiday homes to rent. The plan was: loads of resting, sleeping, reading, eating and taking long walks. It was one of the best holidays I've ever taken.

None of it would have been possible without a few foodies and bloggers who helped us along the way. First of all, Bill & Sharon Gunter from Gunternation, these two amazing people offered to mind the shop's stall at the market while we were away, we didn't even have to ask and they did a super job! Then it was my brother in law Sean, who minded the on-line business end of things while we were eating cheese and sleeping till ten. Our friend Kate Packwood, from The Wild Flour Bakery provided us with plenty of goodies for the trip, including some of her outstanding brownies and what I have renamed as 'volcano cakes' with passion fruit glazing on top. Thank you all for being so great!

When we set off on this mini-food adventure, we started by stopping at our friend's farm in Tipperary, Old Farm, and we were fed delicious pork burgers and stayed overnight in their wonderful company. The following day, refreshed after a good night sleep and with an amazing breakfast behind us, we drove as far as Michelstown in Co. Cork, to stop at another blogger's home, Caroline Hennessey from Bibliocook. We had the chance to chat, drink loads of tea and sampled Caroline's amazing brownies made with Eight Degrees Beer, which is owned by her kiwi husband and a friend.

By the time we made it to Glengarriff, it was two days after the start of the holiday. The drive to it was incredibly relaxing and the back of the car was full of goodies picked at all our stops. Twitter made our hoiday so much better too; we got tons of recommendations from several foodie twitter friends. We made it to the Good Things Cafe in Durus, to The Fish Kitchen in Bantry, to the Copper Kettle in Castletownbere; also to Mannings Food Emporium in Ballylickey, the Bakery in Ke nmeare and to Lorge's Chocolates in Bonane. All found thanks to foodie friends in the area. We cooked several dinners at the house and went out and had a few too... it was just a delightful time!

So let's get back to Karma. Halfway into the holiday, we got a text from Caroline to see if we could help her with a demo at the Lissard Festival. We of course said yes, how could we not do it when so many others had helped us throught the holidays?! We thought, it's foodie Karma! We had the most amazing time handing out beer, assisting in the cooking of the brownies and just browsing around the place and watching all the other food demos on the day. It was our time to send some good karma around: Sharon and Bill had helped us, we were going to help Caroline and, as good deeds ripple, when we were back in Dublin after two amazing weeks off, I got a phone call from The Theatre of Food to see if I'd like to take part in a couple of demos at the Tall Ships Festival in Dublin and Electric Picnic in Stradbally. It's all good karma making its way back to us! I don't want to make anybody jealous, but go to my facebook page to see a few of the pictures we took of food while in West Cork, which in my humble opinion is, food heaven capital of Ireland. If you haven't been, put it on your list, it's beautiful!