Bob Marley versus The Irish!

It always used to be that you couldn’t go anywhere in the world without finding a fake Irish pub but have Bob Marley bars now taken over?! From the small town in the Annapurnas to Varanasi and even back to Mongolia it seems that Bob wins out against Bono and the smell of Guinness is replaced with that of weed! Instead of raucous drunken sing-a-longs to ‘Irish Rover’ it is now stoned gap year students bongo’ing along to ‘Redemption song’ – which is another thing, why take bongo’s travelling with you?!? It doesn’t make you cool or different, it just means we all have to suffer you bongo’ing them all bloody night! Perhaps I’m just longing for a pint of the black stuff but drunken sing-a-longs win out against the repetativeness of back to back Bob Marley songs!