I did all the driving in Ireland and Vicky did the navigating. She probably had the tougher job. Years ago, I drove over 1,600 miles in the UK with a manual car, not an automatic, and had no problems of note. On this trip, I drove 1,153 miles. Vicky and the woman at the rental car place made the decision that I should be driving an automatic. I had asked for a manual car, but my decision was overridden! At any rate, the driving of the car was easy despite sitting and driving on the "wrong side of the road."

My two main technical driving issues were complicated roundabouts with multiple lanes going into and out of them, and standard intersections where I had to make a right turn in heavy and fast traffic. Those situations took extra concentration.

The other key, and frequent, problem was very large vehicles driving very fast on extremely narrow roads. These were mostly the "local roads" but also sometimes on the regional roads. The motorways and national primary roads were very easy to drive. We managed to spend a lot of time on the very narrow local roads, but we only had a few close calls.

In the next photo, you can see Scotland offshore as we drove up the coastal road.

Scenes like the next one were some of my favorites on our drive around Ireland.

Not all the sheep managed to stay in the pastures however.

As rain is extremely common in Ireland, so are rainbows.

We also drove through some forested land and yes, they had sheep there as well.