While I traveled across the great lands of Ireland, making merry on its yummy beer and befriending boisterous, warm-hearted folk, there’s one little problem that nagged me consistently. You see I’m quite normal in some ways, and in-line with everybody that visits the Emerald Isle, I was extremely amused by the legend of the leprechaun. Unfortunately, I couldn’t hold my ... Read More »
Be one who drinks the finest of ales. Every day without fail. Even when you have drank enough, Remember that ale is wonderful stuff. Ireland is a land of several treasures – be it history, culture, natural splendor, literature or music, there’s so much on offer you sometimes don’t know how to take it all in. I made an attempt ... Read More »
As promised in my last post [Read: Ireland – 50 Shades of Green, Blue & Beer], here’s the second post in this micro-series on my time spent in the Emerald Isle; today, we circumnavigate and re-trace my foot-print in the largely under-rated county of Cork! For many, County Cork is the gateway to what is known as the fabled Wild ... Read More »
The Irish and their everyday lives can make for a brilliant study of anthropology. Brilliant characters, great conversationalists, limitless appetites for well cooked food and well brewed ales and a general affinity towards the good arts, the highlight of my Irish getaway was its wonderful people. Unfortunately, like every popular thing in the world, there are certain stereotypes that have ... Read More »
Everybody speaks of how traveling is a great learning curve. There’s so many people out there that claim it taught them more than any professor or any classroom in any university. Almost all of them are spectacularly correct. Being on your own in a strange, new land, where nothing is familiar and every moment takes you some distance out of ... Read More »
As I start to write this, I’m sitting in the midst of the tranquil beauty of Europe’s largest green park right in the heart of Dublin, Ireland’s capital. I’m trying to express why you should travel to Ireland, while simultaneously trying to fathom that by this time tomorrow my time in this wonderful land will have come to an end. ... Read More »
After months of planning and speculation, I will finally embark upon the very first of my international escapades in June 2014; I’m scheduled to fly out from Mumbai, India on the 3rd of June, to begin what I’m sure will be my greatest experience as a Nomad till date. I will be traveling through the United Kingdom including London, Birmingham, ... Read More »
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