Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Things I Discovered During A Weekend In Dublin

It is possible to mix Paul Simon's 'You Can Call Me Al', 'Sweet Child O' Mine' by Guns 'n 'Roses and 'Jump Around' by House of Pain together in the same DJ set.

Eating a whole tub of Ben and Jerry's ice cream is the equivilent in fat content to consuming a carton of Flora margarine. (But nowhere near as tasty I would presume)

Being face to face with a tiger isn't scary when there is an inch of glass between you. However, seeing a sleeping boa constrictor and witnessing a mole snake eat a mouse whilst separated between the same quantity of glass makes me disappear rapidly into my jumper.

Guinness tastes better in Dublin.

I can't convert prices from Sterling to Euros in my head nearly as fast as I would like.

A bowlful of Irish stew is very filling.

If a U2 song is played in a pub, everyone sings along.

The builders of a church opposite the apartment we stayed in dedicated their work by inscribing 'Deo.Optimo.Maximo' across the front of the building. I remembered I don't know any Latin, so had to look the meaning up. It means 'To God, most good, most great'. I thought how great it would be if everything I did was worthy of dedication to a most great, most good God.

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