Paris: Coffee and the Lost View From a Rooftop
There used to be two great bargains in Paris. A pair of not-so-secret traveler’s secrets to explore the city like…
Tag: independent travel
Traveler’s Guilt: 5 Ways to Shut it Down
I blame Pliny the Elder for the whole ‘home is where the heart is’ claptrap. For providing the ammunition used…
Finding Great Food While Traveling: Edinburgh Edition
Edinburgh appeared on our travel radar last summer just a few days before flying to Norway. One reason for the Norway…
Who Says You Can’t Go Back? A Return Trip
“You eat the food here?” That was the question our guest asked. Tad was an American guy we met at…
Making New Friends in Ireland
Earlier this summer while traveling in Ireland I met Mickey, an Irish gentleman who came into Con & Maura’s Bar,…
Reinvention Through Travel and Why I Never Wore Those Stupid Green Pajamas
In a Dispatch a while ago, I mentioned an Irish radio show I listened to one morning while driving from Ireland’s…
Irish Whiskey Tasting in Midleton, County Cork
There’s a theory (you can look it up and read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers) referred to as the 10,000-hours rule, which…
Road Tripping in Ireland
I had this vague notion about my first trip to Ireland 15 years ago: that I would seek out some…
Two Tales of Dublin
I lost my map of Dublin in the toilet of the restaurant where I ate breakfast. Or maybe I left…
The Time Dublin Gave Me the Cold Shoulder
I have entered an alternative Irish universe called Dublin and I don’t recognize it. At breakfast this morning at O’Malley’s…