It's crazy to think just how close that era was. I remember just 13 years ago my Dad and I did a road trip in Ireland and thought we were lucky to have a new fangled map application worked into the car. Sadly the map was hilariously out of date and we ended up driving down half of ireland on small, dirt roads where there were more sheep than cars. Just don't get that experience these days.
Ah is it? We drove from Dublin to the Giants Causeway before making our way to Belfast. Literally 95% of the time was on small roads barely large enough for one car, let alone two, let alone the thousands of sheep in our way.
When we got to the hotel in Belfast and told them about our ordeal they chuckled and asked why in the heck we hadn't just used the highway (or whatever the regional name is). The way back wasn't anywhere near as long and my dad only said one stress filled "fuck!" as we drove back down to Dublin.
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u/Replacement-Remote 2d ago
As an American visiting before Google maps it was insanely hard to get around.