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...simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn't be missed. For classy aperitifs among a crowd of Dublin's young shovers and makers, there is the sprawling, magnificent Café en Seine, tel: (353-1) 677 4567. Decked out like a debauched fantasy of late 19th century Paris, this three-story café-bar features a soaring atrium, 12-m trees and an atmosphere in which Toulouse-Lautrec would have felt right at home. For dinner, head over...
...holiday rituals go, it's commonly supposed that there's nothing nicer than sitting in a Florentine café or Beijing teahouse, with postcards fanned in front of you to craft elegant missives to loved ones. But the attractions of sending your wish-you-were-heres digitally are harder to resist. Why queue in a dingy post office, fumble with unfamiliar coins and try to buy stamps in a language you don't speak, when you can just use your phone to take a picture of the Acropolis or the Kremlin and fire it off to anyone you like...
...There is one major downside of the postcard's passing, however: it is frequently being replaced by the lengthy travel diary, in the form of a group e-mail, that your vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked...
...simulacrum of a dining destination. Those in search of style bars and designer bistros now find themselves with a surfeit of options, but there are two that shouldn't be missed. For classy aperitifs among a crowd of Dublin's young shovers and makers, there is the sprawling, magnificent Café en Seine, tel: (353-1) 677 4567. Decked out like a debauched fantasy of late 19th century Paris, this three-story café-bar features a soaring atrium, 12-m trees and an atmosphere in which Toulouse-Lautrec would have felt right at home. For dinner, head over...
...help of young Austrian artists. Under-6s and their parents can explore undersea worlds in Zoomocean. Information: Museums Quarter, short walk from city center; www.mqw.at; www.kindermuseum.at. Children $6; adults $4 Beijing: Beijing Shadow Troupe Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and cafés of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended; tel: (86-135) 6303 6667 Dubai: Wild Wadi At this Arabian Nights...