Here are some mainly fun facts we learnt in Ireland. Let's start with sheep: they are colour coded!
The codes are for many secret things, but mainly ownership, since these dashing muttons are fleeing! Also, this is how wide the roads are, but luckily we didn't make any grave driving errors.
We learned many facts about Guiness, such as the proper two-step pouring rule, for proper bubbling. Also, throughout a whole week, Mark only split the G once:
A snug was where you hide women in a pub, and then give them half pints of Guiness so that they can be discrete and virtuous. Nowadays this is quaint, because no one oppresses women at all anywhere.
Many pubs have traditional music, or trad music, not to be confused with trad wives. This involves fiddles, flutes, the mystical uilleann pipes which seem better than bagpipes, and my favourite, the squeezy box (mini accordion). We were too shy to take pictures, but we did get a free traditional tuna sandwich.
Arguably less fun fact: this is the former security around a pub in Belfast. They only de-caged you once you're proven to be safe, somehow.
Speaking of safe, the Europa hotel is the most bombed hotel in Europe. What about, say, London in WW2, you may ask? Well, once buildings were bombed, they didn't get re-bombed as much, says my fact checking.
Back to funner facts. Here is Irish curry! It comes in slimmers and squeezy!
Irish candy is fantastic! They like the sugars, and in flavours of clove and cinnamon.
This is my candy face.
This is an Irish breakfast, and it is very brown. But for diversity, they have a black and a white pudding. We had lots of delicious food, but my favourite was Guiness bread, which I photographed zero times.
I've saved the funnest facts for last!
We visited the illustrious town of Muff, but unfortunately Muff Liquor was closed.
And finally, this is Irish Jesus. He is very fair, his anatomically questionable (sacred) heart is on gory display, and he sometimes has a light to prevent sinning. This is why children are afraid.
Sometimes he is surrounded by floating baby heads.
