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The Irish BBQ Beef, Lamb, Goat and Fresh Seafood

The waters teem with delicious seafood options, and the rolling hills provide ample grazing…

Irish BBQ has a reputation for being a bit of a joke, given that the auld sod doesn’t see a great deal of grilling weather. Citizens of the Emerald Isle have been known to claim that they only break out the barbecue one day a year, and it’s usually rusty and missing a wheel. Add to that the fact that the host typically engages in the “one beer for me—one beer for you!” routine, and the whole enterprise takes on a comedic quality.

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Top 7 Local Things to Eat and Drink While in Dublin

Get out your front door Eat, Drink & Explore…

Dublin is a small easy-going capital of Irish folks, is infamously known for its humanism, pubs, and Craic (an Irish word meaning a good time). Over the last few years, food and booze have been the center point of this cosmopolitan city. Well, chefs and breweries in Dublin are on the path of making extraordinary traditional treats pairing with fantastic drinks.

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Top 7 places to try scotch whiskeys in Dublin for solo women travelers

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Solo Traveling is an emerging trend amongst women across the world. It is one of the most empowering things for a woman as it makes them independent and sets them free. Thanks to some incredible tourism initiatives that more and more female travelers are traveling alone nowadays, compared to the last decade. It is the twenty-first century, and women have now started following their passions, they have also begun prioritizing themselves over others, and that is why they take out time from their schedule for solo traveling.

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Lonely Planet names Galway the 4th best city in the world

Lonely Planet names Galway the 4th best city in the world

Visit Galway the City of Culture in 2020

Galway has been named the fourth best city in the world to visit in 2020 by Lonely Planet – coming in ahead of cities like La Paz, Vancouver and Denver. The leading travel media company unveiled the accolade today (Monday, 21 October) in the prestigious Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2020 – its collection of the world’s hottest trends, destinations and experiences for the coming year.

Tourism Ireland plans to take every opportunity to maximise this accolade for Galway over the coming weeks and months. Its promotional campaign will roll out in Britain, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Welcoming the news, “The inclusion of Galway as the Number Four City in the world in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2020 is wonderful news and will surely help to inspire travellers everywhere to put Galway and the Wild Atlantic Way on their holiday wish-list for next year. It is another well-deserved accolade, which provides Tourism Ireland with a great hook to continue to promote Galway and Ireland around the world as a ‘must visit’ destination.”

Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland,

Galway is described in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2020 as “brilliantly bohemian” and “arguably Ireland’s most engaging city”. It goes on to talk about Galway 2020 and says: “vivid and vibrant, brimful of imagination, Galway in 2020 is home to a year-long, city-wide, arty party”. 

Tourism Ireland’s campaign to leverage the accolade will roll out over the coming weeks. Activity to spread the good news will include:

  • a new video highlighting Galway city and county and Galway 2020; click here to view;
  • a specially created page on Tourism Ireland’s international website, Ireland.com, which attracted 20+ million visitors last year;
  • extensive social media activity, including posts and news on Facebook (Tourism Ireland has 4.4 million fans worldwide), Instagram (around 630,500 followers) and Twitter (523,000 followers);
  • a major PR and publicity push to Tourism Ireland’s 20,000 international media contacts (including an article on the organisation’s online press room); and 
  • highlighting the accolade at major travel fairs like the upcoming World Travel Market in London, the largest B2B event in the global travel and tourism calendar.

Bridgette Brew, Galway 2020; Nóirín Hegarty, VP Digital Content, Lonely Planet; Niall Gibbons, CEO of Tourism Ireland; and Patricia Philbin, CEO of Galway 2020, at the announcement Galway has been named the fourth best city in the world to visit in 2020 by Lonely Planet.

Lonely Planet top 10 cities

Top ten cities in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2020 are:

  1. Salzburg, Austria
  2. Washington DC, USA
  3. Cairo, Egypt
  4. Galway
  5. Bonn, Germany
  6. La Paz, Bolivia
  7. Kochi, India
  8. Vancouver, Canada
  9. Dubai, UAE
  10. Denver, USA

Check out our Irish Food Trail “Galway Experience” food tour.

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Visit Boxty House on The Deluxe Irish Food Trail

Irish Food Trail Deluxe Food Tour

Local is where the heart finds home

Walking through the door of the Boxty house feels like arriving home to me, there is agenuineness to the real Irish welcome you will find here – they’re not being polite because they’ve been trained to be, it’s very relaxed. This restaurant is homely, authentic the staff (our friends) are genuinely interested in where you come from and why you came here. Your first experience of a place will influence how you feel about the rest of your journey, so we recommend you start it here.

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