Sad Day

Bewley's Cafe in Dublin is closing. I got to go there this past spring---and, as it turns out, was very lucky to have done so. Patrick Belton has the linky low-down:

Bewley's cafe, a haunt of students, shoppers, and pen-wielders since Joyce, to close its doors for the last time this evening in the face of the smoking ban, soaring Dublin rents, and competition from Starbucks.