Dublin, pleasant weather today but the City has become bedraggled, dirty and dowdy. It has lost its characters and characters. The people on the streets are the intrepid travellers with their backpacks ticking all the places recommended and this gives them a tourist experience which is quite distinct from the people who choose to “Travel”. The new Lord Mayor has to motivate the businesses, as former Lord Mayor Carmencita Hederman did in the 1980’s. We need to stop conveyor belt tourism and encourage people to be travellers. Source: 2 articles from BBC

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