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GAD

GAD

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Yes. We went to Stonehenge and Bath. Today we're flying to Dublin.
 
GAD

GAD

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Today I drove for six hours on the wrong side of the road in a car with a manual transmission that's backwards. I parallel parked, even! I drove through probably 300 rotaries, only got honked at once, and only hit the curb twice while driving on roads that I think are about four feet wide at most. Oh, and yesterday I managed to pull into a sort of "easy pass" toll lane without the proper transponder, then had to back out into traffic and use a different lane. It was awesome. I'm two days in and it feels almost natural. Almost.

I look forward to driving my Acura into the divider on Route 78 when I get home.

Why? So we could all kiss the Blarney Stone. :)
 
Bailey Boy

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Oh after kissing the blarney stone you should travel to Scotland and stay in my castle :)

The castle carries my name along with village where it is located so I think it is mine. several friends, family members and myself of course plan on moving there depending on who is elected this year.
 
NewfDad

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GAD said:
Today I drove for six hours on the wrong side of the road in a car with a manual transmission that's backwards. I parallel parked, even! I drove through probably 300 rotaries, only got honked at once, and only hit the curb twice while driving on roads that I think are about four feet wide at most. Oh, and yesterday I managed to pull into a sort of "easy pass" toll lane without the proper transponder, then had to back out into traffic and use a different lane. It was awesome. I'm two days in and it feels almost natural. Almost.

I look forward to driving my Acura into the divider on Route 78 when I get home.

Why? So we could all kiss the Blarney Stone. :)
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Spent two months in UK, driving was a trip. There were three things that made driving an exercise in controlled confusion. 1) having the driver on the other side and like you said, not reversing the shift pattern. 2) right turns, it is so hard not to instinctively end up on the wrong side. 3) the lines on the road going in to roundabouts actually mean something, one kind means stop another means yield, another go like hell. Was driving for two weeks before anyone told me about that one.
 
victoria1140

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Enjoy yourself, hate to tell you four foot road isnt too bad at times .

Still at least you are getting the weather being nice
 
GAD

GAD

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Today I drove to Shillelagh to buy a proper shillelagh stick. I take back everything I said about the roads being too narrow the other day. I had no idea what a narrow road was until I drove through the country roads of County Wicklow. Holy cow!

And yes, I bought a shillelagh stick. Or five.

 
Finny

Finny

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Ha! I've covered a lot of miles on narrow roads in the west of Ireland. Just get behind a local and keep up if you can! Some of the intersections and tight turns can be a bit hairy with stone walls or hedges preventing you from seeing oncoming traffic. I think "jump-scare" is what my teenagers called those times when another car hurtles forth out of nowhere. I guess it's a movie or gaming term.

Dublin was much harder for me even with the wider roads. The one way streets continually reset my right side/left side instincts leaving me with untrustworthy reactions every time I returned to a two way road.

They closed Blarney Castle on us while we were walking around the grounds. Closed means they lock a gate across the parking lot exit with your car inside. Luckily we found a very narrow path in one dark corner that wound between houses and eventually ended up at a road. Our car picked up a few scrapes on that adventure.
 
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