For yours truly and himself the path to good holiday intentions have been
paved with hell. Despite the cluster headaches and the rain, not to mention
my extreme reluctance to plan anything involving enforced relaxation, we
managed to have a very good relaxing time - well most of it.

The drive down of about 340 miles took an hour and a half longer than
anticipated, ok the roads have improved from the old Drogheda car park but
unfortunately, getting out of Dublin involved bumper to bumper and I feel
nothing but sorry for the poor folks who have to do that commute twice a
day. While the main roads are magnificent, the same cannot be said for the
rest, some are like patchwork quilts of concrete and bitumen and the others
are just plain bad - I sure missed the comfortable seats of Fat Tony 1 (BMW
535i) compared to the arse-numbing experience of the VW Touareg especially
when doing bouncy bouncy along the Irish country road.

"Soozle" myprovider.com> wrote in message
news:LDLti.26588$sI3.17121@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...

Well I'm glad you enjoyed it but I'm sorry you had such a bad driving
experience, I drive the country a lot bot in a slow old Merc camper van and
a much faster Volvo and have generally found that slow drivers do give way
on the hard shoulder most of the time. I prefer driving the camper south of
the border in fact becase as soon as I go north I feel guilty about not
being able to get out of the way. Agreed though that the standard of some
drivers is appalling, a lot of this is down to the fact that a very high
percentage have never taken a test but were granted a full licence in an
"amnesty" many year ago when the wait for a driving test was so long that
anybody who had a provisional licence for more than a certain time was given
a full one automatically. There are also few, if any, restrictions on who
can set up a driving school with the expected results. ...

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 06:31:46 +0100, "Cerumen" gmail.com>
wrote:

EEEEEEEK!

That's how *all* drivers here get their license! (Well, there is a
test but it's mostly a joke ... )

Odd and we can't even spell it correctly girl