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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 14 June 15 14:59 BST (UK) »
I figured you were from the USA!

If you need an automatic car, you'll have to ask for that specifically when you book.
They won't have automatics hanging around the car-lot!!

And you'll have to get used to driving on the correct side of the road?! ;D
(That's on the left!  ;D ;D)
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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 14 June 15 15:03 BST (UK) »
I figured you were from the USA!

If you need an automatic car, you'll have to ask for that specifically when you book.
They won't have automatics hanging around the car-lot!!
What gave me away!!
Yeah, I heard about the stick vs automatic debate. I would probably go automatic. The less complications the better. I don't want to leave Ireland less populated than I found it!
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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 14 June 15 15:32 BST (UK) »
I was picking up a hire car at Dublin Airport about 10 years ago, when an irate American came storming back in demanding an automatic car!

Because he didn't specify, they had reserved a normal stick-shift for him.
There weren't any automatics left! ;D
So it was "take-it or leave it".
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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 14 June 15 15:33 BST (UK) »
I'm pretty ambidextrous, so that wouldn't bother me!
I think I know that guy, he lives next door!
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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 14 June 15 15:45 BST (UK) »
The Green gas/petrol pump handle is UNLEADED.
Black handle is Diesel.
Opposite from the US I believe.

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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 14 June 15 17:10 BST (UK) »
If you do decide to drive from Dublin and take the ring road then beware of its bizarre toll system  ::)

https://www.eflow.ie/help-guidance/faqs/

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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 14 June 15 17:50 BST (UK) »
The Green gas/petrol pump handle is UNLEADED.
Black handle is Diesel.
Opposite from the US I believe.
Great tip.
Thanks!
Baker: Dorset, England > Newfoundland > Massachusetts
Peddle: England > Newfoundland
White: Dorset, England > Newfoundland
Magner: Co. Cork, Ireland > Boston
Otto: Eisfeld, Thuringia, Germany > Boston
McDonald: Co. Carlow, Ireland > Fall River, Massachusetts
Thayer: Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England > Braintree, Massachusetts
Marks: Portugal > Massachusetts
Gilmore: Co. Westmeath, Ireland > Massachusetts
Farnum, Phillips: England > Barbados

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Re: I'm On My Way!
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 14 June 15 17:51 BST (UK) »
If you do decide to drive from Dublin and take the ring road then beware of its bizarre toll system  ::)

https://www.eflow.ie/help-guidance/faqs/
Duly noted.
Thanks!
Baker: Dorset, England > Newfoundland > Massachusetts
Peddle: England > Newfoundland
White: Dorset, England > Newfoundland
Magner: Co. Cork, Ireland > Boston
Otto: Eisfeld, Thuringia, Germany > Boston
McDonald: Co. Carlow, Ireland > Fall River, Massachusetts
Thayer: Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England > Braintree, Massachusetts
Marks: Portugal > Massachusetts
Gilmore: Co. Westmeath, Ireland > Massachusetts
Farnum, Phillips: England > Barbados