Interesting...

[dianec42]

You Belong in Dublin

Friendly and down to earth, you want to enjoy Europe without snobbery or pretensions. You're the perfect person to go wild on a pub crawl... or enjoy a quiet bike ride through the old part of town.

What European City Do You Belong In?

Comments

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

I'm a Paris Person, seemingly.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Same here, and I've actually only spent four days there.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

I may have failed to mention I've never actually BEEN to Dublin. I was kind of angling for Edinburgh; but as this quiz didn't have a "see all possible answers" option I don't even know if that was a possibility.

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Heh. The restaurants and shopkeepers certainly seemed to have pretensions based on their prices when I was there last summer. At least as expensive as London, perhaps even a bit higher.

On the other hand, on my last night while at a fannish gathering in a pub I did get to see a genuine Irish bar fight. I was about to make my good nights due to a ridiculously early flight when, in a bar room which seated perhaps 40 people total, suddenly there was the noise of a bottle breaking and the shout "You stay away from my wife!". Wasn't anyone in the gathering, but at a nearby table. Where the bottle had apparently been broken over a patron's head. There was a bit more yelling, and then the newcomers left. I was advised to stay another 10-15 minutes to be sure they didn't jump me by mistake as I left. Was right next to a very reasonably priced and excellent fish and chips place that is apparently a must stop for any rock musician that visits Dublin.

The other particularly notable Dublin bit was that on a bus travelling to the airport through downtown between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning, I saw many more drunks and not as drunk people weaving their way home on foot from partying as I have ever seen at that hour in any major city, including Manhattan.