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Western Ireland: Don’t Drive
I disagree with some of these comments. My husband and I were just there in May. We rented a house for two weeks in Dingle. Great town with beautiful scenery. I suppose it might help if you've driven in a foreign country before..opposite side of road, opposite side of car. My husband has, and I haven't. Once I got used to being on the 'wrong' side, I was fine. We ventured all over the Dingle Peninsula and throughout the Ring of Kerry. I'm a photographer so I don't really consider getting in a bus "exploring". My bothers, at the same time, were doing an Ireland tour as well. They rented a car and explored 70% of the country...free to see all the ruins and castles, off the beaten path, to their heart's content. I suppose experience with dangerous roads in Baja Mexico (un-paved, gravel, washboard, narrow and on steep hillsides) helped curb any fear we may have had in Ireland. If we hadn't driven, we wouldn't have seen nearly half of the beauty we saw. Not being in a bus we weren't limited to where we stopped. We also didn't look as tourist-y, by trying to blend in with local traffic. I wouldn't have done it any other way. Here are just a few shots from our trip: [http://maggiemarsek.com/home/2012/07/film-ireland…] [1]: http://maggiemarsek.com/home/2012/07/film-ireland…— July 14, 2012 1:39 p.m.