studentsineurope

Welcome back to my weekly column, where I bring you the best of budget travel, cheap backpacker and student-minded bang-ups, cheap bites, affordable beds and inexpensive beers throughout Europe. A variation of it will be featured by our new partner, Sosauce, under the title of Thrifty Thrills.
Today, we’re going to [...]

Jessica Sprenkel, a current senior at Rhodes College in Memphis, spent last semester studying abroad at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She found her study abroad program through IES Abroad, a non-profit acadmeic consortium that provides study abroad opportunities to more than 200 colleges and universities in the US.
Jessica is now only days away from [...]

To express “Happy St. Patrick’s Day” in the Irish language, you should say
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
which literally means “Blessings of St. Patrick upon you.”
and sounds like: /ban-uck-tee na fay-luh paw-rig ur-iv/
This photo shows the beautiful madness that is Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day. The parade in full force, you can barely move through the [...]

If you’re anything like me, spending St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland is (one of the many things) on your ‘things to do before I die’ list. Kind of like ringing in the new year in Times Square or watching the fireworks fall over the Boston Pops on July 4. The Dublin St. Patrick’s Festival is [...]

The first time I heard someone order a Guinness-and-black, I thought it might be some kind of variation on a black-and-tan. Then I remembered that Guinness IS the “black” in “black-and tan” – there went my theory. But I’ve never met a drink I didn’t like (except for Chinese white spirits, which were pretty terrible), [...]

Though a recent assertion of its plan to cater to older and family travelers made me question its target demographic, Hostelworld.com seems to still be looking out for the young traveler after all. The web site (which needs no introduction — it’s almost impossible to search for a hostel and not at least glance at it) [...]

The locals guide to your favorite city.

Leaving the school-week without enough travel-relevant words of wisdom? Here’s another round of recently published, feature-worthy writes for your weekend reading.
More accustomed to photo paper than Photoshop, and a veritable stranger to my own digi, I appreciated the SoSauce article on how to choose a digital camera. The write-up includes a little questionnaire of possible [...]

This is the British Isles’ answer to Germany’s radler. The shandy is a blend of your favorite lager and lemon or ginger soda. It’s light and refreshing and another good cocktail for student travelers who’ve figured out that beer is the cheapest thing at the pub, but aren’t quite sure they like it.

A few groundrules for drinking a proper Guinness in a proper Irish pub.