St Guinness Day

For a moment I thought I had some how ended up in Dublin. It is amazing how on one day a year every one suddenly realize that they know some Irish bloke, therefore they are Irish are will greet every one in the street with "Top of the morning" (even at 11:30pm)

When we got to the first pub we could tell that it was a good place - Stepping over unconscious people on the floor as you queue to get in is always a good sign. A couple of pints and a krazzy hat later we left and moved on the pub 2

It always impresses me how much people love their sport over here. Slap bang in the middle of a nice little hard house number they cut the music and put all the TV's on and every one just stopped and spent the next 30 mins watching NZ win the gold in the rugby 7s final against England (NZ 29, UK 21). Yet another strange sight - watching a room full of people dressed in green and waving Irish flags supporting NZ. Match over the music continued as if nothing had happened. Great.