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 [...]

The Ash Cloud that wreaked havoc on Europe’s airways in mid-April continues to affect the traffic patterns in England, Ireland and Scotland.
Heathrow (Europe’s busiest airport), Gatwick, Stansted and London City airports are currently closed and scheduled to remain so until at least 7 a.m. Monday morning, while Dublin’s international airport will remain closed until at [...]

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 [...]

Has the Ash Cloud (capital A, capital C) stranded you in Ireland (you lucky dog)? While these kinds of travel delays are certainly no picnic, you can make the best of it by doing a bit of sightseeing (or a bit more sightseeing if you were there on vacation).
The Cliffs of Moher, Ireland’s most popular [...]

This is the second part of an interview I did with Troy Hibbard, a PhD student in Biotechnology at Dublin City University in Ireland.
Think back to when you first arrived in Ireland. What stuck out to you most about the culture?
Honestly, I was hit hard by how relaxed the culture was. Being a highly international [...]

This is part one of an interview I did with Troy Hibbard, a PhD student in Biotechnology at Dublin City University in Ireland.
You are doing a PhD in Ireland. Tell us a little about your program and what you are doing there.
Currently, I am doing a PhD with Dublin City University. It is a multidisciplinary [...]

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) [...]