We visited S Ireland for the first time, I don't see why it can't be called S Ireland after all there is a N Ireland !
Anyway if we had any minor apprehensions about our welcome we need not have worried. A more pleasant and genuine people you could not wish to meet, we were in the Beara Peninsula, highly recommended. Our excellent and roomy Renault Fluence did us well. Six speed deisil auto and 70 mpg !
So what were the problems ? It was the drivers, quite mad and I am told by english friends we visited it was in the Irish psyche ?
On the narrow twisting mountain roads they follow very close, and I became quite skilful and letting them pass. You look ahead, signal and move over into a road widening and they go past. Because they are so close you can almost do this without losing much speed. But this is only an irritant, it is the ones that come at you that really frighten you. They come round tight bends hauling on the wheel with the front tyres scrubbing sideways. In a hire car and with your family this is most worrying. And the women are just as bad.
So there it is, lovely place, lovely people, not too expensive but impatient drivers. Why ? In such a beautiful part of the world, quite uneccessary.
Ok I will end on a good note, lots of good ideas, no disposable plastic bags that I found. They just don't have them, reusable only. Why do we argue about this, just do it.
Alan
