With a total circumference of over seven miles, the Phoenix Park is the largest enclosed park in Europe. Now it’s neatly serviced the Irish President’s house—or a turn about Ashtown Castle will make even the most minute trip worthwhile. Just make sure you keep your eyes open for stray Frisbees, soccer balls, bikes and kites » Read more

Now, you can fly direct from the land of Homer to the land of Joyce—and on a budget no less. Beginning on June 5, 2007, Aer Lingus will be running a new service between Athens and Dublin. Flights can be booked on the Aer Lingus site for travel up through October 27 of this year » Read more

Could it be? After years of Italian influence on the American coffee scene, the tables have finally turned. The latest coffee craze in the country that practically invented the stuff: Eraclea espresso drinks, available in three sizes: €1.10 for a small, €1.90 for a large, and €1.50 for a takeaway. It appears that Italians have » Read more

Photo by Letincelle&Soseau Feeling jaded after all those meals of steak frites and braised veal shanks? Pep yourself up with an ice-cold smoothie at one of the great new juice bars in Paris. Bob’s Juice Bar is located near the Canal St. Martin on the Right Bank. Run by an American filmmaker called Mark, it » Read more

We can’t imagine an inefficient Viennese transportation system. Not only do buses, trains, and trams arrive and depart more or less at the expected time, passengers can also map out their itinerary using suggested routes and means of transport via Wiener Linien online. Recently, the government of Vienna announced that they will increase the prices » Read more

The ideal thing about Ideal Bite is that the site and its daily e-mails offer interesting, useful, quick “bites” of information—replete with ample doses of humor—for people who want to serve the common good without sacrificing their own personal pleasure and style. Recently, Ideal Bite served up the 411 about Nau (pronounced “now”), a new » Read more

German low-cost carrier Germanwings is having a pretty massive sale on flights in and out of Cologne/Bonn, Dortmund, Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Berlin right now. Destinations include Barcelona, Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, Bucharest, Dresden, Dublin, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Leipzig, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Nice, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stockholm, Verona, Warsaw, Vienna, Zagreb, and Zurich. Don’t know about you, » Read more

Everyone has heard of Munich’s Oktoberfest, but few people know of Bratislava’s Junifest, which will celebrate its fourth year this June, from June 8 through June 17, 2007. This is a shame, because Slovak beer is excellent and the festival has a great program, and is very cheap. A ten-entry pass costs SKK550 (€16.25; $22) » Read more