A visit to Ireland would be the trip of a lifetime. Travelers get to explore everything from the urban pleasures of Dublin to the scenic beauty of a road trip on the Wild Atlantic Way and the picturesque towns of the Lakelands. That's a lot of traveling to do, but the good news is that a NY Travel photographer has already done all the hard work.
The advantages are pretty obvious, considering that most people would be hard-pressed to take a jetliner across the Atlantic for a holiday. Not to mention the hassle of traversing the length and breadth of 26 different counties. It's now possible to skip all this pain and enjoy the same thrill of Irish holidays with an art book.
In fact, the book's buyers get to experience the holiday's best parts without the irksome things that need to be faced in person. The Cliffs of Moher in County Clare are among the country's most-visited tourist attractions. This also makes it a tourist trap that forces visitors to pay through the nose and survive parking woes, the gift shops and hordes of tour bus groups.
Anyone thumbing through an art book gets to bypass all the commercial kitsch and simply enjoy the cliffs towering hundreds of feet above the Atlantic. Similarly, a visitor may be having a wonderful time wallowing in the warmth and comfort of heady Irish brews in the pubs of Dublin. Under these circumstances, a two-hour train trip from Dublin to see the medieval capital of Kilkenny hardly seems the wise thing to do.
There is no such problem for those thumbing through a book of pictures. The turn of a page and a blink is all that is needed to hop over to Kilkenny. Oh, and no train tickets are needed here.
Blarney Castle is similarly a popular tourist attraction in County Cork. The Blarney Stone is supposed to have magic powers to bless people with the gift of the gab if they kiss it. It's just as possible that a picture of the Blarney Stone taken by an travel photographer has the same magical power. After all, a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, and that's a lot of gab.
The advantages are pretty obvious, considering that most people would be hard-pressed to take a jetliner across the Atlantic for a holiday. Not to mention the hassle of traversing the length and breadth of 26 different counties. It's now possible to skip all this pain and enjoy the same thrill of Irish holidays with an art book.
In fact, the book's buyers get to experience the holiday's best parts without the irksome things that need to be faced in person. The Cliffs of Moher in County Clare are among the country's most-visited tourist attractions. This also makes it a tourist trap that forces visitors to pay through the nose and survive parking woes, the gift shops and hordes of tour bus groups.
Anyone thumbing through an art book gets to bypass all the commercial kitsch and simply enjoy the cliffs towering hundreds of feet above the Atlantic. Similarly, a visitor may be having a wonderful time wallowing in the warmth and comfort of heady Irish brews in the pubs of Dublin. Under these circumstances, a two-hour train trip from Dublin to see the medieval capital of Kilkenny hardly seems the wise thing to do.
There is no such problem for those thumbing through a book of pictures. The turn of a page and a blink is all that is needed to hop over to Kilkenny. Oh, and no train tickets are needed here.
Blarney Castle is similarly a popular tourist attraction in County Cork. The Blarney Stone is supposed to have magic powers to bless people with the gift of the gab if they kiss it. It's just as possible that a picture of the Blarney Stone taken by an travel photographer has the same magical power. After all, a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, and that's a lot of gab.
About the Author:
"Ireland in Word and Image" by Jay Ben Aldersberg, NY travel photographer, captures unforgettable images of The Emerald Isle. To check out this amazing book, come to the Jay Ben Images website today at http://www.jaybenimages.com.
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