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Micheline Maynard's avatar

If you’ll be in Dublin a bit, go say hi to Emma Gray at Gaillot & Gray. She is in this story that I just wrote for Time. https://time.com/7020410/traffic-emissions/

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Christopher Elliott's avatar

Great story! You can already see the signs of this -- some streets were recently blocked off. They really need a subway here. Maybe they can get the same guys who did the Doha Metro, which I think is the best in the world right now.

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Rachel Wagner's avatar

After checking into our lovely hotel room in Copenhagen with a balcony overlooking the street, we soon heard magicians tuning their instruments in the street below. And this was at 3 PM! My husband and I were hosting a tour group and needed our sleep. We asked the hotel to relocate us to quieter room in the back of the hotel. They were happy to accommodate us with a room overlooking another roof! But we got our sleep. Others in our group weren’t so lucky with their balcony rooms and had to endure music playing until the wee hours!

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Kim Lombardozzi's avatar

We stayed at the Double Tree by Hilton in Memphis. They give your ear plugs when you check in! Our room was right on Union and B B King Drive. Our balcony was positioned fir some great people watching! It wasn't to bad till Thursday thru the weekend when all the motorcyclists came in revving their engines...all...night long. We definitely needed those ear plugs!

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Sandra ("Sam") Gershenfeld's avatar

Driving through Portugal with no hotel reservations, we stopped at a nice looking hotel. The front desk attendant spoke English and we asked for the quietest room possible. It was quiet until about 10pm when the "room" below turned out to be a late night cafe/pub. Chairs scraping, dishes clattering, smoking, laughter, and raucous Portuguese merriment until about 3am.

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Nancy's avatar

My noisiest travel was at Gaylord’s in Nashville where my room was over the Jack Daniel’s Lounge. I think it was open until 2 am. I was there for work and got very little sleep. They refused to move me and I never went back!

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Candace Bowen's avatar

All my Irish trips were by bicycle and quiet B&Bs in small towns. But don’t get an AirB&B in Prague on the second floor of a building two doors down from the famous Hemingway Bar. The biggest problem, with tighter smoking laws, were the groups coming out for a puff right under my bedroom window at 3 a.m.

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Val's avatar

We really wanted to hear old “Irish folk music “ in Dublin and in the countryside and it as difficult to find. I heard an Irish musician being interviewed and he said they are tired of playing “Irish music “ for the tourists! We all have stereotypical expectations when we travel.

I keep ear plugs with me, mainly for loud concerts but have needed them at hotels, too.

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