This week, Trip on a Deal goes green.
Check out the world's shortest St. Patty's Parade.
Or the secret Caribbean connection to the Irish holiday.
And why you shouldn't kiss the Blarney Stonk.
Plus, our hikers being punished for laziness.
And who is this guy?
And why are his friends suddenly in a musical?
That and more on this week's Trip on a Deal.
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Hello and welcome to Trip on a Deal. I'm Luke.
And I'm John Gottgreen. In this recession, most of us don't.
But maybe the luck of the Irish is going to help.
To cut through the Blarney, here's the Trip on a Deal list
of the top five St. Patty's Day locations around the globe.
You ready?
Yes.
Number five, U.S. Parade O'Rama.
Now, with a name like Obama, our president could be an honorary Irishman.
Obama.
So it's fitting that major cities across the states are celebrating.
Now, we all know that Chicago dies its river Emerald Green on Parade Day, right?
But there are lots of other cities that have their own parades.
They're in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Seattle, Washington, D.C.,
Philadelphia, Boston, Savannah, and the biggest.
Where is it?
New York City, of course.
Two million people line the streets of Manhattan to jig to the melodic sounds
of bagpipers and marching bands.
I want to see your jig. You just did a little jig.
Very nice. A good jig.
Number four, the Caribbean.
Yeah, you heard me right.
The Caribbean.
Did you know the island of Montserrat is known as the Emerald Island of the Caribbean?
Now, most of its early settlers were Irish.
Who knew?
The 10-mile-wide island was devastated by a volcano 10 years ago,
but it is now on the road to recovery and is one of the few places on Earth
where St. Patrick's Day is an official holiday.
Woo-hoo!
Number three, Canada, eh?
Each year on St. Patrick's Day, the Toronto Blue Jays wear green uniforms
for the occasion, and Montreal hosts one of the oldest parades,
running every year since 1824.
The Toronto Green Jays for one day.
Yes.
And number two, Hot Springs, Arkansas.
For all of us busy, you know, multi-tasking types,
Hot Springs offers the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade,
held on the shortest street in the world, according to Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
It features the old Irish custom of belly dancing
and the Irish order of Elvai.
Because, really, what's a parade without a bunch of elvises?
That's what I say.
And can I see your belly dancing?
No.
This year, grand marshaled by cheer star John Ratzenberger.
You don't want to show your belly dancing?
No, no, John Ratzenberger's a great belly dancer right here.
And the number one location for our day of green?
Dublin, of course.
The Irish capital of the world celebrates with six days of music,
parades, and enough Guinness to drown a small colony of leprechauns.
Want to go and drink with those small colony of leprechauns?
BestWilliamsTravel.com offers an island vacation package
that includes six nights in a bed and breakfast, round trip air from New York or Boston,
and a car rental starting as low as 599 bucks.
Nice package.
Thank you.
One tip if you head to Ireland.
You might want to consider not kissing the Blarney Stone.
Why not, Luce?
They'll tell you it's a tradition to gain the quote gift of gab, but beware.
Some say drunken locals traditionally turn the stone yellow, if you know what I mean.
What, they pour an apple juice on it?
Miss, or maybe you figure it out.
We don't know.
Puck her up and make your own call.
Maybe I'll pass.
Now, here's a warning for hikers.
Get lazy and get slapped with a fine.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
They don't actually slap you.
Okay.
Pike's Peak in Colorado is reportedly the second most visited mountain in the world.
It's gorgeous, but beware.
According to the Seattle Times, the Colorado Springs City Council
will fine you from a hundred to five hundred bucks
if you call 911 for help getting down the mountain.
And if you're un-injured.
Yes.
Okay, that's true.
So 15,000 people attempt to climb the peak every year.
I have no idea how many people go up to the top and then say,
I'm tired.
I just see them going down.
I've seen it.
Good bar.
I saw it going up.
Maybe helicopter with help.
So anyway, most of those people have an exit plan.
Like, they'll walk their own way down.
But if you don't, don't pay.
They can always break a leg.
Then they'll pay for their medical bill.
There we go.
And finally, here's a trip on a deal update.
A few weeks ago, we told you about the best job in the world.
Remember this?
It's blogging from the Great Barrier Reef.
You have to sit on this beach and live in a spectacular home
and earn six figures.
Tough.
Well, Queensland Tourism has now posted their top 50 applicants.
And boy, they are creators.
There's the animated entry from Magali in the Netherlands.
And guess what?
Now I'm really, really ready to take it a step further
to really feel at home.
Russian Julia's overproduced sexy Bond Girl app.
I didn't read about this job pregnancy.
First, it was hard to believe.
This girl has, like, 10 locations, a huge...
I mean, how much money did you put in this?
And our favorite, Canadian Mitchell,
took an all-American Broadway approach.
He took every single friend that he knew,
threw them on a street with a soundtrack and take a look.
That's great.
We should do a trip and a deal, the musical.
Oh, don't even...
I've got so many ideas already.
I'm sure you do.
Trip and a deal, on ice.
Vote for your favorite at islandreefjob.com.
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