24 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

The Capital Hotel Whiskey Masterclass: I Thought I Knew Whiskey But I Was Wrong

The Capital Hotel Whiskey Masterclass: I Thought I Knew Whiskey But I Was Wrong

I really like whiskey. I like the taste of it, but I also like the associations that go with it, the masculinity and ruggedness of the drink. When cowboys saunter in a saloon and throw a gold piece on the bar, you know the barkeep is getting out a bottle of whiskey. I like the [...]

23 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Held Hostage By Timeshares

I remember when I was a kid my parents got a timeshare. It was on the northeast coast of America, at a pretty little resort with an Indian name that looked over the water and had an amazing golf course. I was real young when they got it, but I remember my siblings and I [...]

18 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Getting the Gift of Gab in Southern Ireland via Railtours Ireland

Getting the Gift of Gab in Southern Ireland via Railtours Ireland

After imbibing the freshest nectar of the barley goddesses in public houses filled with red faced and blurry eyed practitioners of daily routine,  I sashayed up and down the emerald city's moonlit and star splashed streets, my spirits high with the warm breath of liquid decadence, my soles light across cobbled stone with the knowledge [...]

16 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

London’s Limited Service Hotel Model

London’s Limited Service Hotel Model

Limited service hotels make the most sense in expensive cities like London. These are hotels like the new Tune Hotel: Liverpool Street, London. This type of hotel follows the new budget airline business model by offering the main service at a base price of £35 a night. In the case of the hotel that means [...]

16 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Top 5 Most Captivating Dublin Restaurants

Top 5 Most Captivating Dublin Restaurants

Ireland is known for it’s consumption, although not usually for it’s food, unless you are discussing the statistically flabbergasting rate of potato ingestion prior to the great potato famine. But I ate amazingly well when I went to Dublin. Here are my favorite five places that I found while I was there. 1) Bang OPENING [...]

16 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Touring in Thailand

Traveling by yourself is one of the best ways to immediately get outside, and grow, your comfort zone. It can be terrifying at first, but once you have traveled to a new city or destination, made friends, explored an area together, and then left with vague promises of skyping sometime down the road, only to [...]

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