27 replies to this topic

[Andy]

Having driven a lot in Ireland (all be it solo) the best advice I can take will be to watch the road carefully.
The road surfaces in Eire vary greatly, from very new and good surface to totally pitted "I'm not going to pull my van over that" type.
They also tend to change from one to the other very quickly.
I think this is a lot to do with when they had a lot of EEC development money. Each community would improve the roads through the village/ town - but the minute your out of the main area the road goes to pot again.
This is of course not true of the major road, which over the years have improved greatly. The Dublin to Wexford road in unrecognisable from the pot hole ridden shambles of a road I first encountered.

[TCDown]

Maybe the "All about Britain" sould be "All about the UK" or people should just accept the the term "Britain" is informally accepted to mean the UK

[swanseajack]

Whitsun.   Pembroke   - rosslare  ?310

Dover   - Calais  ?153

So we are of to France

[west-is-best]

I don't mind paying a bit more than a French Crossing (we pay ?150 in August, car, caran + 5 of us) but ?400+ versus ?150 is a non-starter for us I'm afraid.

We would be interested at around ?250 return maximum.

One earlier post mentioned the Swansea-Cork Route. Please note that this is closed for all of this year and no certainty of it re-opening (shame as we are only 13miles from Swansea!).

I hope that we can get this rally off the ground - the only way will be to make it an official T&T Rally, which hopefully M&S will add to their ever growing workload?

[klyne]

Hi David

We have booked for the FICC rally and have been to S_I the last 2 years with the C&C club.

We travel from South Manchester to Hollyhead and get the Stena line 02-30 boat this get in to Dublin about 06-00 therefore you can clear Dublin city before there is any traffic. In the past we where on rally s in Kilarney so about 5 hrs to the site from Dublin ,
There are some motorways and duel carriage ways the rest are "N" road average speed 40 MPH but very easy driving no problem with the locals when towing a caravan

Look at the South Wales to Cork route same price via the C&C club and only a short drive to the FIcc

If I can help give me A shout  

Regards
Dave

Dave

Thanks for the info and the offer of help.

David

[shipbroker]

There is nowhere more British than Ulster!


rgds
geoff

ps with regards to roads the one from the North through Wexford down as far as the Limerick by-pass is still absolute murder with pot holes...don't forget that even on motorways you're limited to 50 in the South...the road through the Bog  from Wexford ( seriously) we were lucky to do more than 25 at times..the cross country road from Dublin to Limerick is decent now as is the Cork road.

[olderbutnotwiser]

There is nowhere more British than Ulster!

Well.............two thirds of it anyway.........

[Tickling Trucker]

But only one of them is "foreign" strictly speaking.....

Indeed it can be argued, one is foreign. as Ireland is an island, with the majority Irish.... should not majority law rule ?

or, do we recognise the union of Great Britian and Northern Ireland ,thus only recognising the union flag .

As Ireland and GB are all part of the greater European Union, should neither flag be displayed but the many starred EU flag ?

Further, thinking about it, do we see the flag of Wales and Scotland as foreign, they are after all part of the Island we call Britian, but as the majority live in England should this not be the flag of St George only flown as the others are foreign too ?

Ireland is an island surrounded by water and not connected to anywhere else, so should this not be a seperate entity.

Ulster. however, is also part of that island, it's own identity (mainly British and proud)and where Ireland is concerned is part of the national culture of the island , it is proud of it's british identity within the Irish nation and will continue to fly its flag , whatever perception other nations have of it.

[olderbutnotwiser]

We all know there is dispute about whether there should or shouldn't be a united Ireland.

My posting had nothing to do with that, merely to point out that one was the flag of the Irish Republic, which is an independent country, one is the flag of Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of the situation, that is how it is at the present moment in time.

[shipbroker]

Rightly said Jim, we are caravanners not politicians....

geoff

[FourbyFour]

New forum up and running, hopefully Mark will put one of his country flag buttons on it too  

Sonja, can you please point me in the right direction to this sub forum

[iancjc]

New forum up and running, hopefully Mark will put one of his country flag buttons on it too  

Sonja, can you please point me in the right direction to this sub forum

this thread is in the Ireland forum  

http://www.touringandtenting.com/forums/in...hp?showforum=81

cheers

[pogue]

im irish ,this forum should be marked with the tricolour ,n ireland is british ,and nothing to do with us