The first real holiday weekend so we have:
1.Hire cars driving on the right hand side of the road;
2. Coaches FAR too big for country roads, therefore driving on BOTH sides of the road at the same time;
3.Drunken smokers blocking roads outside pubs.
All these witnessed on a 15 minute drive in County Cork…Happy holidays to all who survive!!
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Coaches on country roads – I made the mistake of doing the Ring of Kerry during summer last year. They should ban anything larger than a minibus; trying to squeeze past a huge full size luxury coach on some of the stretches was just unbelievable; lanes walled on either side, with a grassy ditch between, and your car & the coach just inches apart as you try not to slide into the ditch as you edge your way past. Then the next flippin coach 100 yards down. So, yeah, with you on that, take them off the wholly inadequate country roads.
Between Ballyvaughan and Fanore on the coastroad you will see the biggest coaches you will ever see in you life. Plus everyone's so taken in by the beauty of Galway Bay, they just abandon their car and wander around in a daze. You wouldn't want to be in a hurry. But the main reason for blocking the entire coast road while you're aimlessly wandering around the Burren for a few hours? Who cares, sure I'm OK and that's all that matters.