Three Points To Remember When Driving In Dublin
A city that's received extensive promotion in recent years
, bolstering its place as one of Europe's primary tourist destinations, Dublin is a city that has something for everything.
Steeped in history, packed full of fantastic shopping areas and having a seemingly unlimited supply of bars and restaurants, throw in a touch of beautiful scenery and a sprinkling of Irish charm and you've got a wonderful city for anyone to visit.
Of the many different ways to sample the city's delights, one particularly popular option is to carry out car hire Dublin.
Giving you unrestricted access to the whole of the city (and to a certain extent, the whole of Ireland), car hire Dublin makes for a great choice for those people who want to see every sight and attraction that Dublin has to offer without having to stick to often rigid timescales that are so often put in place on organised tours.
Whilst car hire Dublin may be a fantastic option, there are several points that you have to remember at all times, with the following three being the most notable.
1. Drink driving is illegal - just like it is anywhere else in the world, it's illegal to drink and drive in Dublin.
Whilst this might not seem like anything that would need specifically pointing out, the reason it has been is that Dublin is the home of the world famous Guinness stout.
There is a copious amount of establishments where you can sample Guinness and you can even take a tour around the Guinness brewery, but what must be remembered is that if you have one pint of Guinness, you can't drive. The legal limit is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, which works out, on average, at two units of alcohol - a pint of Guinness is 2.3 units.
2. The signs are occasionally located differently...- for the most part, you won't notice a difference when driving in Ireland, especially if you're used to driving in the UK. However, one particular difference is that occasionally, street signs are painted onto the sides of buildings, meaning that you need to be looking all around you when trying to look for signs, rather than keeping your eye out for a dedicated sign.
3. ...and are always written differently - in the UK, we work on the Great British Pound currency and measure any lengthy distance in miles, with the road speed signs all being written in miles per hour.
As Dublin (and Ireland in general) follows the road rules of the European Union, using the Euro as a currency and kilometres for their distances, you have to keep in mind that when you see a sign on the motorway saying 120 kmh, this is 120 kilometres per hour - approximately 75 miles per hour.
Furthermore, the price of a litre of petrol at the pump in Dublin as of November 2010 is around 132.9c, a figure that you could immediately think is high, before you realise that the sign's in c - cents - and not pence, which would put the cost at around 112.9 pence per litre.
by: Sally Parker
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