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DUBLIN, Ireland, May 30, 2003 / FW/ --- As I turned onto Grafton Street I was dwarfed by the tall historical and contemporary storefronts which fit together like an architectural puzzle work.

Old stone and wood work blended with for example, the contemporary McDonald's façade advertising McCafe.

Through the window there appeared to be someone having a latte in a white pottery cup, a far cry from the paper or plastic cups in McD's ordinaire.

This was not too far from the historical Bewleys Oriental Café, a coffee house founded in 1840; move over Starbucks.

Across from Bewley's was a boutique sporting tall, thin, long-legged mannequins, complete with braided hair-extensions.

The one in her mini-skirt and crop-top barely showing her belly button was deep in thought, "Am I only a piece of eye-candy? What is the meaning of my life?"

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