DUBLIN IS LIKE A CHRISTMAS CARD, SAYS NEW YORK TIMES Capital described as a ‘newly energised city’ with a ‘literary spirit’ where Bono busks Dublin is a “newly energised city” with “an abundance of artisan offerings” and “literary spirit”, according to a New York Times journalist living in the capital. Ratha Tep, a freelance journalist from New York who moved to Dublin last August, has described Dublin as “a Christmas card” in a seasonal travel piece for the newspaper’s Frugal Traveller column. “What I found was a newly energized [sic] city rich not only with jovial cheer, but also an abundance of artisan offerings and a creative, literary spirit,” writes Tep. She describes the St Stephen’s Green Christmas market with its 60 vendors in wooden chalets and “throngs of revellers sipping warm brandy-spiked punch out of plastic flutes”, accompanied by “Louis Armstrong’s gravelly voice” booming from the speakers. Nearby, “dazzling rows of white chandelier-style Christmas lights” illuminate Grafton Street with the city’s buskers adding electric energy to the atmosphere. She advises readers to hang around on Christmas Eve to catch a glimpse of “hometown rock star Bono” who in recent years has joined other local musicians such as Glen Hansard, Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan to raise money busking for Dublin’s Simon Community. youtu.be/iUQJDYlkTyM
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 02:37:01 +0000
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