Southern Ireland honeymoon...
Discussion
As the title says...setting off next week with my new wife on a bike she has had since she passed her test 2 weeks ago.
What could possibly go wrong? We want to see this beautiful country without making her hate bikes. Travelling light and up for adventures!
Any tips or advice would be appreciated!
What could possibly go wrong? We want to see this beautiful country without making her hate bikes. Travelling light and up for adventures!
Any tips or advice would be appreciated!
Family is from Co Wexford, take the bike over there quite a bit.
It's a great place with some wonderful scenery, take it easy and don't try to do too much each day. The standard of driving in the republic can be "erratic" or to use a simpler term poor. Fewer "motorways", wide hard shoulders that you are expected to move into when being overtaken, if safe. Obviously a lot more farm machinery etc on the roads so be careful to give a wide berth, condition of anything but the main roads can also be bad with a lot of loose chippings etc. No speed cameras as such (think there were a few in Dublin at one time) but plenty of speed camera vans and I tend to see a few more Garda than I do UK traffic police. So in all just take a deep breath and slow everything down, hell why would you want to rush such a wonderful place
Oh come back with photo's and tell us all about it
It's a great place with some wonderful scenery, take it easy and don't try to do too much each day. The standard of driving in the republic can be "erratic" or to use a simpler term poor. Fewer "motorways", wide hard shoulders that you are expected to move into when being overtaken, if safe. Obviously a lot more farm machinery etc on the roads so be careful to give a wide berth, condition of anything but the main roads can also be bad with a lot of loose chippings etc. No speed cameras as such (think there were a few in Dublin at one time) but plenty of speed camera vans and I tend to see a few more Garda than I do UK traffic police. So in all just take a deep breath and slow everything down, hell why would you want to rush such a wonderful place
Oh come back with photo's and tell us all about it
stu67 said:
Family is from Co Wexford, take the bike over there quite a bit.
It's a great place with some wonderful scenery, take it easy and don't try to do too much each day. The standard of driving in the republic can be "erratic" or to use a simpler term poor. Fewer "motorways", wide hard shoulders that you are expected to move into when being overtaken, if safe. Obviously a lot more farm machinery etc on the roads so be careful to give a wide berth, condition of anything but the main roads can also be bad with a lot of loose chippings etc. No speed cameras as such (think there were a few in Dublin at one time) but plenty of speed camera vans and I tend to see a few more Garda than I do UK traffic police. So in all just take a deep breath and slow everything down, hell why would you want to rush such a wonderful place
Oh come back with photo's and tell us all about it
Thank you. I had heard the roads were not brilliant. Its all about the experience and the scenery so not looking to pick up any tickets en route. We have no structure to the week as bad weather could pin us down in the same place and we don't want to 'have' to be somewhere. Complete freedom. It's what bikes were invented for!It's a great place with some wonderful scenery, take it easy and don't try to do too much each day. The standard of driving in the republic can be "erratic" or to use a simpler term poor. Fewer "motorways", wide hard shoulders that you are expected to move into when being overtaken, if safe. Obviously a lot more farm machinery etc on the roads so be careful to give a wide berth, condition of anything but the main roads can also be bad with a lot of loose chippings etc. No speed cameras as such (think there were a few in Dublin at one time) but plenty of speed camera vans and I tend to see a few more Garda than I do UK traffic police. So in all just take a deep breath and slow everything down, hell why would you want to rush such a wonderful place
Oh come back with photo's and tell us all about it
My advice would be to stick to the larger roads if she's not that confident!
As Dibble mentioned, we do quite a few miles over there on vintage bikes - that's mainly around the Ring of Kerry area. Some of those roads are lovely but some of the backroads are proper ropey.
My favourite places in Ireland are up the west coast though, around Mayo. If you have time to get there you'll love it, although again the roads can be a bit iffy! It's far less touristy though, and Achill Island is one of my favourite places in the world!
Main thing is to take your time. On the Irish Rally one year a load of Swiss lads were stood around looking at their watches waiting for 9am so they could get going. A bloke called Billy who's a local said to them, "you may have the watches, but we have the time". I think that perfectly sums up life in Ireland
As Dibble mentioned, we do quite a few miles over there on vintage bikes - that's mainly around the Ring of Kerry area. Some of those roads are lovely but some of the backroads are proper ropey.
My favourite places in Ireland are up the west coast though, around Mayo. If you have time to get there you'll love it, although again the roads can be a bit iffy! It's far less touristy though, and Achill Island is one of my favourite places in the world!
Main thing is to take your time. On the Irish Rally one year a load of Swiss lads were stood around looking at their watches waiting for 9am so they could get going. A bloke called Billy who's a local said to them, "you may have the watches, but we have the time". I think that perfectly sums up life in Ireland
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