The pub isn't really about the drink, it's about your taxi driver turning out to be someone's uncle.
Fun fact: Ireland's population still hasn't recovered to its pre-famine peak of 8.2 million in 1841.
Managed to become the unofficial capital of Europe mostly by being too polite to say no.
Fun fact: Belgium went 541 days without an elected government in 2010–2011, a world record at the time.