Sunday, August 28, 2005
Kilkenny
For some reason I went to Kilkenny on Wednesday, a friends idea, an random one at that as I had no idea what was there other than Irelands closest drink to a nice pint of bitter (And it still isn't that nice). Saw some castle and a graveyard but other than that there isn't much more to do in Kilkenny so we asked Tourist Information for inspiration and they told us to go out to Inistigoe, a picturesque village and view point.
For the benifit of those ever recommended to go to Inistigoe, don't. We didn't even stop, as soon as we had even slowed down a somewhat demented looking local started shouting at us through the window of the car, and the only thin in sight was two pubs. You'd think it would be ideal, but it's no, so on we went to New Ross.
New Ross is an odd town, we only went there for some food and I had one of those wonderful kebab experience where they prepare it for you out of site and pass it to you wrapped, yet they assure you that it was prepared exactly how you where wanting it to be, psychic people in New Ross.
The true adventure of the weekend was abusing the rental car, which luckily we paid the 1o Euro insurance for. My downfall when driving was being unable to master the motor co-ordination skills to keep the car in motion while also giving due attention to signs and other motorists. This time I was the attention man and my American friend drove. Over the course of 24 hours we managed:
Also learnt that car rental in Dublin is expensive, at least 100 Euro, and more if insidethe city centre, plus a 50 Euro petrol deposit. We used Budget and seemed to have secured a good deal, especially concidering the damage done to out little car
For the benifit of those ever recommended to go to Inistigoe, don't. We didn't even stop, as soon as we had even slowed down a somewhat demented looking local started shouting at us through the window of the car, and the only thin in sight was two pubs. You'd think it would be ideal, but it's no, so on we went to New Ross.
New Ross is an odd town, we only went there for some food and I had one of those wonderful kebab experience where they prepare it for you out of site and pass it to you wrapped, yet they assure you that it was prepared exactly how you where wanting it to be, psychic people in New Ross.
The true adventure of the weekend was abusing the rental car, which luckily we paid the 1o Euro insurance for. My downfall when driving was being unable to master the motor co-ordination skills to keep the car in motion while also giving due attention to signs and other motorists. This time I was the attention man and my American friend drove. Over the course of 24 hours we managed:
- Three emergency stops
- Four counts of driving on the wrong side of the road
- Never indicated on a round about
- Knocked out someones rear lights in New Ross
- Scrapped the front og the car when leaving a parking space
- Scuffed up a hubcap
- Four counts of hitting the kerb
Also learnt that car rental in Dublin is expensive, at least 100 Euro, and more if insidethe city centre, plus a 50 Euro petrol deposit. We used Budget and seemed to have secured a good deal, especially concidering the damage done to out little car
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