Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Ireland
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I hadn't heard of the Dingle Peninsula until a few years ago during a "girls weekend," when a friend presented a bottle of Dingle Original Gin from the Dingle Distillery for another friend and I to taste. Then when I was researching a trip to Ireland last year, the travel literature suggested that if visitors had…
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I was looking for an Irish town to spend a view days on my own last April, during a two-week trip around Ireland with a rotating roster of travel companions. Kilkenny stood out. The city an hour-and-a-half south of Dublin is known as the design center of Ireland, but also has a medieval castle, a…
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You know the solo travel world has come into its own when The Washington Post does an entire travel section on it. One article offers eight tips ensuring a "trip of ease." Some obvious tips include using common sense when it comes to safety and talking to locals. One you don't hear as often is…
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Had enough Titanic stories yet? Can I sneak just one more itty bitty one past you? I was in Belfast a few years ago where I learned about the city's ship-building prowess and the fact that the RMS Titanic, and its sister ship the RMS Olympic, were built there for the White Star Line. The…
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I now throw out the idea of "singles" travel for those who might be interested in joining a tour composed solely of people traveling alone, who are presumably not married. I have not gone with the group Singles Travel Service, but I'm on the email list and they recently sent me a newsletter on some…
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Today's post is brought to you by "The Bathroom Diaries." This is one down-to-earth Web site on the essentials of waste, and the receptacles that receive it. Fun, funny and highly useful if you're the type that plans in advance. And you really, really want a clean and comfortable place to go. Its contributors have…
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Smapping. That's what Mike Sowden calls it when you become your own cartographer/photographer: "Smapping is the process of taking a digital photograph of a map that you won’t have access to later, except if you take a snap of it." This is brilliant. I've done something similar by snapping signs and information boards when I…
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I just put the movie "Bloody Sunday" on my Netflix list. (Clearly, this is not going to be your typical St. Patrick's Day green-beer travel story.) The movie is a docu-drama about a massacre of unarmed civilian demonstrators in the Catholic Bogside district of Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972. And, according to the review, "the…
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"My father was a big whiskey drinker. He said that when he died, he wanted to be cremated. It took them three days to put the fire out." Joke, courtesy of Hugh, my bus driver during a tour of Northern Ireland. When someone ran out in front of our moving bus to cross a Belfast…
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Ever sit in a "snug?" In the Crown Bar, a former gin joint also known as the Crown Liquor Saloon, the snugs are private, carved wood booths. Wait staff can pass drinks over the top of the cubicle-like snugs, or open the door and hand them in. The Crown Bar is in the heart of…
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