EXCITING CITIES
ILLUSTRATIONS: IGOGOSHA/NGVOZDEVA/MASCHA TACE/KIT8.NET/OXY-GEN/SHUTTERSTOCK. PHOTOGRAPHS: CCFF/RASMUS FLINDT-PEDERSEN
DUBLIN, Republic
of Ireland
WHY GO NOW? As one Dublin-based beverage
company once proclaimed, ‘good things come to
those who wait’, and in 2017 there will be a flurry
of long-anticipated openings in the city.
WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT? While the city is blessed
with plenty a cobbled street and Georgian
townhouse, most people come for Dublin’s sociable
atmosphere rather than its looks.
WHAT SHOULDN’T I MISS? Start out at the Jameson
Distillery, which recently opened its sturdy green
doors following a £10-million facelift (tours from
£15; jamesonwhiskey.com). New tours come with a
focus on cask-tasting and cocktail-making with
hallowed ‘uisce na beatha’ (the ‘water of life’, as
whiskey is known round these parts). A five-minute
walk away through Smithfield you’ll find a grand
18th-century townhouse built around the same timeBELOW The Jameson
Distillery and new Dublin
street-food market EatyardTWO WHEELS GOOD
Bikers, rejoice. A new cycling ferry has
opened between two of Europe’s
most bike-friendly cities,
Copenhagen in Denmark
and Malmö in Sweden. The
M/S Elefanten will transport
36 bikes, and their owners,
all at the same time.the first casks of Jameson were distilled. It’s home
to the brand-new Tenement Museum, which
recounts the plight of Dublin’s poor in the 19th and
early 20th centuries, when over 100 people lived in
cramped conditions in the property (sharing two
toilets). From here, stroll south over the bridges of
the Liffey to Eatyard – Dublin’s new street-food
market, where a number of kitchens have set up
shop inside shipping containers (the-eatyard.com).
Punters are welcome to take their food into the
adjoining Bernard Shaw pub and philosophise
about whether bao buns, BBQ pulled pork and
falafel actually originated in the Emerald Isle
(thebernardshaw.com).
HOW DO I GET THERE? There are quite a number of
flights to Dublin with one stopover each from
Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. Qatar Airways, KLM,
British Airways and Turkish Airlines offer some of
the cheapest flights with shorter layovers (from
£529; ba.com).