Grieves,
I must admit, I'm still relatively unaccustomed to receiving ..."fan mail," though what you have written is hardly a glowing review, and yet, I find myself compelled to respond. My opinions are my own, as I have always stressed, and do not quite see the reason for the insult I seem to have caused. While, as you put it, Dublin has not been the worst city I have ever visited, I felt as if I hardly followed some two-bit, top-ten list, and it had still been severely ...lacking in culture.
Mind you, most big cities do seem to have a culture of their own, almost devoid of their surroundings, but this was almost too much. Dublin was one of those that I found to even lack hints of the illustrious earthiness and spirit of the rest of the country.
I travel where the winds take me, and my inspirations are my own. I will not apologize for what I have seen or found in those places. In that same vein, I write when inspiration hits; be it in my hotel, or amid groups of people, as you put it, "wearing tall white socks." Sometimes those crowds are clear signs to avoid a place, which seems to be what you are touching on, but sometimes there is merit in something that can draw millions.
Though I defend it, I am usually not much for tourist-y and I would have appreciated fewer Russians in my Guinness.
Faust
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