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Byline: Tom Downey The Irish have helped perfect, perhaps even invent, the pub as we know it. Storied Dublin locales like Gravediggers and Mulligans keep that tradition alive. The Irish [...]

Byline: Tom Downey The back story of Breac House, a tiny hotel in northwest Ireland's County Donegal, sounds like a cautionary tale: Two city-slickers, accountants from Dublin, who'd never worked [...]

Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city's traditional eating and drinking culture. Upon landing in Tokyo [...]

Byline: Tom Downey Using a guidebook published more than 20 years ago, a writer searches out the bars and restaurants that express the city's traditional eating and drinking culture. Upon [...]

Byline: Tom Downey Suva, the Fijian capital, is not on many travelers' itineraries, but with a multiethnic population from all over the country and the region, it defines the urban [...]

Suva, the Fijian capital, is not on many travelers' itineraries, but with a multiethnic population from all over the country and the region, it defines the urban South Pacific. After [...]

Byline: Tom Downey For my first night in New Zealand's South Island, I'd booked an Airbnb in Hawkesbury, a hamlet in the middle of the country's most important wine region, [...]

The article offers information on Breac House, a unique hotel in County Donegal, Ireland, that has succeeded by staying true to its local roots. The owners, Cathrine Burke and Niall Campbell, have focused on collaborating with local chefs, artisans, and designers to create an authentic and thriving ecosystem of contemporary food, design, and craft, highlighting the vibrant creative scene in the region.

ON my first morning in Sana, the capital of Yemen, the call to prayer didn't just rouse me from sleep, it rattled the window panes, seemed to shake the foundation […]

TO the untrained thrill-seeker, Yemen would seem to promise the kind of adventures that only James Bond would relish: kidnapping by tribal factions, riots over gasoline prices, cheap and plentiful [...]

IN the early part of the last century, Frank Lloyd Wright traveled to Japan, where he designed a series of signature buildings: a regal Tokyo hotel as grand as an [...]

THE BASICS -- For a long time the best Barcelona hotels were clustered around Eixample or along Las Ramblas. In recent years, boutique hoteliers have opened new accommodations that place […]