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Matador Network’s Alex Nolette took the beefy challenge of picking 50 of the world’s best burger joints. He came through with a list of the most recommended, droolific burgers on earth. More

You always hear about the distinction made between tourists and backpackers, but even among backpackers, we love to group each other into categories by who is the better traveler. Check into any hostel, and you will find a variety of different travelers wearing their distinctive tribal gear. Here are some of the more common that can be found in a hostel’s jungle  …More

photo by Cormac Mulhall

What is Busking?

Busking is the time-honored practice of performing for spare change in public – generally on the street or in a park. Most buskers are musicians, but if you have any sort of talent, you can generally make some good money by putting on an honest performance in a high traffic and relatively affluent area.

If you’re looking to get a sense of the local culture, street performance is a great way to do it. Your status as a foreigner adds to the exoticism of your act, so it can help give you a leg up on the locals.   …More

Together we studied the Humanure Compost Toilet Manual. It read, “There are two types of people in this world. Those that sh*t in their drinking water and those that don’t.”

We were about to experience how the other half lived.

The toilet was a yellow bucket with sawdust, placed under a wooden toilet seat frame. For 10 days we followed a routine of eat-excrete-sawdust-repeat. We bonded each time we had to collect another wheelbarrow load of sawdust or shovel the contents of the toilet bucket onto the humanure compost heap.

As a city girl travelling with my farm girl friend, the compost toilet was the source of many discussions as we sat around in our mobile home after a day’s work. And while no television, mobile coverage or WiFi will do that to a girl, the compost toilet was the first of many opportunities WWOOFing in Ireland provided to learn about healthy, sustainable living.

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Saint Patrick’s Day, the 17^th March, is a date etched upon all Irishmen’s hearts. Originally a Catholic festival celebrating Ireland’s patron saint, it’s now a bank holiday in both Ireland and Northern Ireland and is the one day a year where all things Irish are celebrated long into the night from fiddle playing and folk music to outlandish leprechaun costumes, four-leafed clovers and the Pogues greatest hits on repeat on the pub juke box.

Of course its also an excuse for a jolly good knees up, and no party Irish style would be complete without a pint or two of the Emerald Isle’s most famous beverage- Guinness.

With thousands of people expected to descend upon Dublin to celebrate Paddy’s Day at the home of St James’ Gate- the Guinness capital of the world- two Dublin hostels are offering guests a free pint for every night booked over the holiday period on selected accommodation.

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Bram Stoker who wrote Dracula hailed from here and the Irish people have been celebrating All Hallows’ Eve in various forms since the days of the Celts and it is thought that the Jack o’ Lantern originates from Ireland. Enough about the history! –you might be saying. What can you actually do here during the Halloween season?

Here are a few of the best activities for the year 2009:  more>

Great fun! There are even tutorials. more>