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The Authentic Irish Pub vs. the ‘Irish Pub Concept’
by Michael Yessis | 03.17.07 | 10:44 AM ET
Remember: Wherever you are in the world—from Kazakhstan to the Canary Islands to Dubai—a faux Irish pub awaits. And if you’re lucky enough to be in Ireland, here’s how to be a first-class punter. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all.
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by Ben Keene | 02.26.07 | 8:12 AM ET
Travel certainly has its comedic moments, and yes, remembering to bring your sense of humor when visiting another city, state or country is almost always a good idea, but few people intentionally set out on a trip in search of slapstick. Not so with Conan O’Brien.
The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: Paris and ‘The Places in Between’
by Michael Yessis | 12.22.06 | 8:02 AM ET
It’s a week of classics—and perhaps emerging classics—here at the Zeitgeist. This week, we travelers are showing our love for Paris, Irish pubs, the Hawaiian islands, the wonders of the world and Rory Stewart’s walk across war-torn Afghanistan.
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And for those who, like me, will be driving for the holidays this weekend, here’s how to survive a blizzard. Safe travels and happy holidays.
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How to Down a Pint in a Real Irish Pub
by Cheryl Donahue | 12.06.06 | 2:01 AM ET
Photo by Cheryl Donahue. There's more to it than simply bellying up to a bar and ordering a beer. Cheryl Donahue explains how to become a first-class punter (and if you think we're talking football you really need this).
MTV, Like, Enters the Travel Guidebook Biz
by Jim Benning | 11.14.06 | 3:11 PM ET
The network has teamed with Frommer’s to produce guidebooks aimed at young budget travelers, according to an AP report. MTV Italy and MTV Ireland are the first books published in the series, with additional Europe titles due out over the next year. “The ‘best of’ recommendations in ‘MTV Italy’ include ‘most awesome ancient ruins’ like the Colosseum and Roman Forum, best seen, according to the guide, after dark when the floodlights come on,” the story reports. “Best churches, according to ‘MTV Italy,’ are St. Peter’s Basilica, the Duomo in Florence and St. Mark’s Basilica.” We’re all for any books that can inspire young Americans to head overseas for the first time. MTV guidebook readers will no doubt discover that Europe is packed with fly hostel-cribs, seriously awesome ruins and people as beautiful as those in Laguna Beach—I mean, on “Laguna Beach.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Please Enjoy Your Local “Irish Pub Concept.”
by Michael Yessis | 03.17.06 | 11:04 AM ET
No matter where you are this St. Patrick’s Day, chances are high that you’re near an Irish pub. That’s no accident. “In the last 15 years, Dublin-based IPCo and its competitors have fabricated and installed more than 1,800 watering holes in more than 50 countries,” Austin Kelley writes in a fascinating story this week in Slate. “Guinness threw its weight (and that of its global parent Diageo) behind the movement, and an industry was built around the reproduction of ‘Irishness’ on every continent—and even in Ireland itself.”
James Joyce’s Trieste
by Jim Benning | 03.14.06 | 12:12 PM ET
There’s more out there in the travel world than a trip to Dublin for serious James Joyce fans. The peripatetic writer spent 11 years drinking and writing in Trieste, the port city in northeast Italy. The Boston Globe featured a travel story Sunday about Joyce sites there. It turns out, from a writing standpoint, that Trieste was good to Joyce. He wrote “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” there, most of “Dubliners,” and he even began “Ulysses” in the city.
100 Years of Bloomsday
by Jim Benning | 06.11.04 | 9:42 PM ET
Cheers to USA Today’s Laura Bly for pointing out that this coming Wednesday, June 16 will mark the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce’s classic novel, “Ulysses.” (The book’s entire narrative, with Leopold Bloom at its center, takes place in Dublin on June 16, 1904.) Ever since I took a seminar on “Ulysses” as an undergrad—a course in which the “Ulysses Annotated” book assigned to help make sense of the novel was twice as thick as the novel itself—I’ve sought out pub readings on Bloomsday. Not that I begin to understand all the nuances of the novel. I just like the idea that people get together once a year to toss back pints of Guinness and celebrate a book. Or, at the very least, they use the book as an excuse to drink. For those interested in observing the anniversary, Bly highlights Bloomsday celebrations and gatherings planned in Ireland and around the United States.
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