Driving Irish Style

We've just remembered an incident from our drive up the Causeway Coast to Ballycastle, that we forgot to tell you about in the excitement of introducing Patrick. You can tell it happened on day 1 of our holiday as there is still a bit of snow around in our picture, as you'll notice.

The road we were driving along was nice and quiet, because it was a scenic tourist route and it was a cold day outside of the tourist season. As we hadn't passed enough vehicles to really form an opinion, we were wondering what Irish drivers were like. Given the exuberant and lively character of the Irish people, would their driving style reflect their personality?

While we were pondering this, Eddie wandered off to look at some boats in a very picturesque harbour, after all, Eddie cannot see a boat and pass it by without a second look.

Even a boat enthusiast like Eddie, got distracted by this incredible sight:


In case our picture isn't quite big or clear enough, we were looking at the rear end of a lorry which had clearly smashed into a building so hard that it's rear door ended up in line with the building walls! There couldn't possibly have been any other explanation could there?!

At this point we resolved to given the local drivers a wide berth. From then on we turned off the main Causeway route and explored some great local roads that were far too small for us to run the risk of meeting a mad lorry driver. Our favourite one turned into nothing more than a track as we got very close to the shore of a beautiful bay.


At this point, as you can see, the snow had turned to rain, so we decided as the view was so good from the car, we didn't need to venture outside.

Lots of love, George, Yorkie & Eddie xxx