You know you’re in Dublin when…

The first time you cross the street you get almost run over by a car, because you completely forgot that here people drive on the “wrong” side of the road,

When you sit down in a random place and when you look to the floor there’s a “Golf tee” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee), even though the nearest golf course is nowhere to be seen,

Even walking people use the “driving rule” and walk through the left and you only realize it until all of a sudden you’re in a crowded street and you can’t progress,

Even though you believe you are proficient in English sometimes you have to ask some people to repeat what they’ve just said (I can swear sometimes it looks like it’s a different language, but I’ll get used to it),

You wake up and it’s sunny; you have breakfast, you get on the street and it’s already cloudy; you walk for 1 hour and all of a sudden it starts raining,

You see young teenagers jumping into the Grand Canal, the moment it gets to 20ºC,

You go into a pub and ask for a “Plain beer” and it’s a stout (I have to learn to like it),

You go out for a pint and you are back home before midnight (much better than how we do it in Portugal),

You are on the street looking at the city’s map and people approach you and ask if one needs any help with directions (you gotta love the Irish, they are really nice).

I'm loving it so far!

Irish Curiosity – Jonathan Swift, the Irishman who wrote Gulliver’s Travels, is also known as the “Baby Eater” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift)