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This is Cafe Buza, a small bar built on the rocks outside Dubrovnik’s city walls. Since we visited Dubrovnik in the off-season, we had the entire place to ourselves. We stumbled upon it our first day in Dubrovnik, when we literally spotted a hole in the wall, with a “cold drinks” sign above it. We [...]

During one of our family holidays to Europe we visited a Christmas market in Berlin and dined on sausage and beer in the freezing cold temperatures.

I like beer. A lot. So when our guides announced that they were taking us to a “local bar” after dinner one evening, we were pretty excited. While our hotel bar was more than adequate, we would rather stay in the city for a few more hours than be confined to our island hotel for [...]

The background music reminds me of something from a 1980s Nintendo game. North Korea’s latest launch is not missiles, but a TV advertising campaign for a locally-brewed beer. In a rare nod to commercial motives in the resolutely communist nation, the TV advert features a thirsty worker holding a mug of frothy beer. Young women [...]

Because “I’ll have a half-liter of (insert beer here)” just sounds lame: The European Parliament voted to allow the continued use of the pint and the mile on Tuesday, sparing British drinkers from having to order half liters and Irish drivers from staying below 110 kilometers an hour. Before the measure passed, Britain and Ireland, [...]

On Friday, Moira, Jessica, and I attended the Great British Beer Festival. It is the largest beer festival in the UK, with over 450 British “real ales” on tap, along with a wide range of foreign beer, ciders, and perries. Admission is 6 quid, you pay 3 quid for your GBBF pint glass (although you [...]

Instead of writing one big post about Ireland, I’ll break it up into sections, as it’s easier than uploading all 200 pictures at the same time and then trying to write a somewhat coherent description of my travels. First up: the Guinness brewery (more accurately known as the Guinness Storehouse). It’s no wonder that the [...]