Avia, I envy you!! I'd love to see Ireland someday.
One thing I wanted to comment on is the driving. Last year when my parents and I went to England, the three of us were rather worried about having to drive on the left side of the road. But I can tell you it turned out much easier than I'd expected. The first few hours of driving, it feels a bit funny and you need to pay attention more than you would when you drive on your usual side, but after that, it becomes totally natural. Everything is logical and it's very hard to end up driving on the right by mistake. Plus, I don't know about Irish drivers, but English ones were particularly nice and patient, letting you go first when you want to take over a car and so on.
And, more than that, *no* tailgaiting. It was heaven.
Kaethel
(who drives in a country where tailgating and beyond-the-speed-limit-driving is a national sport :p )
