Last day in Ireland and off to the World Cup

Well, I returned the car just in time to catch our bus back to Dublin. I thought it would be fitting to give you the top 10 reasons to check your blood pressure before driving in Ireland:

10. Roundabouts everywhere (I mean everywhere) so you get leg cramps after a while (from shifting up and down)
9. Once you get on secondary roads, bi-directional traffic can be a bit tricky as they are really only one lane roads
8. Most road signs are written in gaelic and some in English. One-way roads are almost never incidated on sign-posts. Makes for very tricky driving for tourists. I wonder how many get into accidents a year?
7. Divided highways are few and far between and passing lanes seem to be a novelty in Ireland
6. Tractors actively participate in the flow of traffic making for interesting log jams
5. There are 10 million cars for 5 million citizens on a small island. You do the math.
4. The main roads (primary) go through small villages which means bottlenecks every 20 minutes
3. Related to point (3), speed limits are never actually broken because everybody knows there is no point in getting to where you want to quickly because of traffic jams in small villages
2. If you like to play with faith, risk the lives of your passengers and yourself by crossing O'connors pass in the Dingle peninsula (but the view is amazing)
1. The scenery is breathtaking so it makes up for all the slowdowns along the way

I hope you all get to enjoy Ireland driving one day :)