Driving in Ireland
The car rental company I used was Enterprise and I would highly recommend them- they were very helpful and let me extend the rental period twice and change the drop off location with no penalty. It was a steep learning curve to get back behind the wheel of a manual car after more than ten years driving an automatic. Most of the rentals in Ireland are manual and automatic are considerably more expensive. I chose the little Opel Corsa because she had sat.nav and a USB port and could fit into tight parking spaces. Having to change gears and remember that the indicators were on the other side to what I was used to kept me alert. The sat.nav got me into trouble on the very first day in Wexford when it directed me down a steep narrow lane in the middle of the city that turned out to be closed off, so I had to back all the way back up the hill with the sensors squawking to warn me that I was too close to the curb. There were a few other experiences of sat.nav taking me places I didn't wa