Best Restaurants in Dublin. For travelers who like to eat, Dublin is a great destination. Home to an array of unique dining venues, you can enjoy everything from farm to table fare to traditional Irish to authentic Italian and beyond. There are also high-quality restaurants fitting every ambiance and budget, so you can enjoy exactly the experience you’re looking for. To help you plan your itinerary, here is a guide to the best restaurants in Dublin. Gallagher’s Boxty House Photo: William Murphy / Flickr For some of Dublin’s tastiest tradition fare, Gallagher’s Boxty House — one of the best restaurants in Dublin — serves up meals like roasted black pudding, Guinness beef stew, shepherd’s pie and, a house-twist dish, a “Spicy Dublin Coddle.”
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Think you’re special? Think again. These sights – towering mountains, vast deserts, endless skies – will put you back in your place. Mass Games, Pyongyang, North Korea Scary and spectacular in equal measure, North Korea’s Mass Games personify the country’s totalitarian politics – and serve as a strikingly well-ordered reminder that we are all just one of seven-odd billion souls strutting and fretting on this globe’s stage. Granted, not every earthling is gathered in Pyongyang for this event, but it sometimes seems like it: at the games, ranks of meticulously organised dancers and gymnasts (around 100,000 in all) create a visual display not of personal skill but of perfect synchronicity.
This is masses of humanity working together, greater than the sum of its parts. The Games are held from mid-August to mid-October. Rub' al-Khali (Empty Quarter), Oman The sand sea of the Empty Quarter, Oman. Maldives Atacama Desert, Chile York Minster, England The west facade of York Minster, England. 27 Surreal Places To Visit Before You Die. Great Festivals of the World. Festivals. A place where people looking to have a great time can dance, listen to great music, celebrate, party, have fun, and relax.
They happen all over the world for many different reasons. Some celebrate religion, some the new year, some art, some the harvest- whatever the reason, every month, somewhere in the world, you’ll find people descending on a location to celebrate and share a common experience. If you don’t like crowds, they probably aren’t for you. But if you feel like getting wet, dirty, staying up late, dancing, or just want to enjoy the energy of tens of thousands of people, check out some of these festivals: Carnival (February) Carnival is a giant party held right before the Christian holiday of Lent. Holi (March) Holi is a Hindu holiday celebrated on the day after the full moon in early March and glorifies good harvest and fertility of the land.
Songkran (Mid-April) Thai New Year is one of the most fun events I’ve ever been to. Bay to Breakers (May) Glastonbury (June) 40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World. If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life.
Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that. Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new. A few are important to know, some interpret and display data in a beautiful or creative way, and a few may even make you chuckle or shake your head. If you enjoy this collection of maps, the Sifter highly recommends the r/MapPorn sub reddit. You should also check out ChartsBin.com. There were also fantastic posts on Business Insider and Bored Panda earlier this year that are worth checking out. Enjoy! 1. 2. 3. 4. Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras, forming about 300 million years ago. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 37. 38. 39. 40.
Amazing Places To Experience Around the Globe (Part 3) Devetashkata Cave - Bulgaria Ben Bulben at County Sligo, Ireland Shark Island - Sydney Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Tannourine - Lebanon Abel Tasman National Park - New Zealand Myrtos Beach, Kefalonia - Greece Sichuan - China In The Gardens of Prague Castle Neist Point, Isle of Skye - Scotland Aiguill e du midi, Chamonix, France The Hamilton Pool Nature Preserve in Texas, USA 4 Hands - Etretat, France Río Tampaón in San Luis Potosí -México Madeira, Portugal Six Senses Evason Ma’In Hot Springs, Jordan Méandre - En-Vau - Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) More Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1 - click here) More Amazing Places to Experience Around The Globe (Part 2 - click here ) Discovered a place we should include in Part 4 of Amazing Places?
We'll be publishing Amazing Places as a book in late 2012. Travel. Top Travel - Tips and Tourist Attractions. How to Use Frequent Flyer Miles to Travel for Free (even if you don't fly very often) How to Travel Around the World for $418. “I have to tell you sir, this is easily the most ridiculous itinerary I’ve ever put together,” said the American Airlines operator the other night as I finalized plans for a worldwide adventure that would make Marco Polo blush. “Welp, that makes two of us!” I replied. And just like that, I had committed myself to almost nine months of international travel. Yes, that picture above is my actual itinerary.
Beginning this January, I’ll start an epic journey that will take me across four continents, through at least nine countries, and into more than fifteen cities. I’ll fly on fifteen flights covering a total distance of 35,000 miles. To put that in perspective, that’s almost 1.5 times the circumference of the globe. Oh, and all of these flights are costing me a grand total of $418.36. Warning: I’m totally going to geek out on travel-hacking with this post, so if you have no interest in learning how to travel the world and visit awesome places for dirt cheap, check back in on Monday. -Steve. Amazing Places To Experience Around the Globe (Part 3)