You know you're Irish when...

...you never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

That was one of our Dublin tour guide's favorite sayings, which meant to me that the better the story was that he was telling us the less likely it was to be true, but still good and worth listening to.

Unlike the Munich and Paris walking tours that pointed out a lot of monuments and listed things to do after the tour, the Dublin walking tour was more of a mobile history lesson. Not that I'm complaining, it was still a great tour and the only one we've been on that included a beer stop!

The Irish claim to be the second largest beer consumer per capita (after the Czechs), and the world's largest tea customers per capita, even ahead of the Brits. What he didn't mention, which the news had been saying for a few days was that young Irish people are also Europe's highest group of people as they smoke more weed than any other country on the continent.

So they get drunk, get lifted, then apparently drink a bunch of tea the next morning with their full Irish breakfast to restart their systems. Maybe their leprechaun accents magically help cure hangovers too. So if you see me drinking tea on a Sunday morning one day and talking in a terrible Irish accent rest assured it isn't because I've had a stroke, I'm just trying out a new theory.

Ryan