Good morning from a cold and gorgeous Inchydoney

The institute is connected to the Aaron Einstein School of Mathematics

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so annoyingly dumb. Never trust a statistic you haven’t made up yourself.

I’m expecting the problems of overtourism to come to a head in 2025, and it’s interesting to see the destinations on Fodor’s annual ‘No’ list. No real surprises but telling all the same www.fodors.com/news/news/fo...

Autumn calendar

RIP Arthur Frommer, travel writing legend. www.theguardian.com/travel/2024/...

We all know that most awards ceremonies are a bit of nonsense where buying a table usually trumps being worthy of a win, but this is quite the own goal for Irish Tatler, who've effectively declared their award ceremony is neither stylish nor substantial

As part of the #DublinSecrets series we created a lovely video (www.instagram.com/reel/DCZJ-Vg...) telling the story of the Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park (inspired by Donal Fallon's book on the subject), as well as a great article by @nicolabrady.bsky.social: www.visitdublin.com/guides/phoen...

Cumbrian farmers don’t care about your feelings

In a ridiculously tough week, here’s a picture of my dog

January 2022.

This is incredibly sad. My wife is from close to Hadrian’s Wall and I worked with Cumbria Tourism for a few years - and this was one of the most beautiful corners of our remit. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

@fionndavenport.bsky.social my first post: I rarely put anything up on Twitter anymore as it’s a hellscape, so here I am - following nobody and without followers - typing into the void. My life is pretty eventful, even if my social media activity isn’t.