The Glena House used rainwater instead of well or city water
In order to turn on the electricity in your room at The
Hotel Aspect you had to insert your room key/card in a slot. They only give you
one card, so you can’t leave the room without it.
All the pubs I patronized in Ireland had hair straightening
irons in the women’s rooms. How thoughtful, and yet fleeting considering the
90% humidity.
The Irish people that I interacted with felt a real
connection to the United States. Dermot, our Dublin tour guide, knew a plethora
of facts about Irish Americans from the founding fathers all the way to the
most recent Irish American soldier killed in Afghanistan (I felt ashamed that I
did not know the soldier’s name).
The Irish take the weather in stride. While we were dogging
raindrops like the Wicked Witch of the West, Dubliners merely raised their
“brollies” or accepted that the drops would dry. Dermot calls a rainy day a
“soft day.”
If you name begins with an O’ such as O’Connell it means
that you are of the tribe of Connell.
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