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Old 19-08-2017, 01:26 PM #8
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Originally Posted by Cherie View Post
This is an interesting question, I have a lot of American cousins and they seem to want when they visit Ireland to meet just Irish people, hotels and restaurants to be staffed by Irish people and in some ways I think they would like people to be sitting around peat fires, playing an accordion and telling stories, its all a bit bizarre given their forefathers were immigrants themselves..
This made me smile and its so true. When Americans come to England, many expect us all be drinking tea whilst watching cricket. Expectations are often very different to reality.
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