And I ADORE it, I get such a rush from the sound of the engines, it’s makes me roar - and I’m not exaggerating one little bit.
See this, I took it about three hours ago.
In Ireland for a wedding on August 3rd, I did a bit of research on car rental between August 2nd and 5th, both picking up and returning in Dublin airport, a total of three days. With 11 separate flights, and three hire car bookings to be taken by me between today and August 5th I wanted to keep my costs down - so with a half-hour to spare I decide to compare and contrast Budget, Avis, Hertz, easyCar, Sixt, Dan Dooley and Europcar. Dollar\Thrifty are scum of the earth so I didn’t compare their prices.
I wanted an intermediate manual car, something like an Astra 1.4, or Focus 1.4 or VW Golf or Mazda 3.
The cheapest to most expensive was the order of the above, with Budget coming out cheapest with E145 for the three days, Avis E146.40, Hertz E157.73, easyCar E166.61, Sixt E176.64, Dan Dooley E201.25 and Europcar the most expensive with E235. (I’m tacking on Budget’s E25 additional charge for airport location onto their quote of E120.00).
So I’ll go with Budget. Odd though, my June 8th to June 15th rental, with pickup in Shannon aiport, and dropoff in Dublin airport for seven days, same type car, comes in at E150, including airport location charge. So I’m doing better in June than in August, suppose it’s the weekend booking, and the summer season.
The single finest Irish-oriented blog on that der d’internet thing: Blogorrah
Yes 
Sir, the boffins at Diageo have crafted a RED Guinness.
They don’t expect the Irish to drink it though, it’s just being marketed in the UK.
They are planning on releasing a low-alcohol-content version of the original colour version in Ireland however. Why would they bother I have to ask? High-alcohol levels are about as important to the Irish as how black our stout is.
Read more about it here at the Daily Mail.
There are days I feel like changing the world. There are days I so badly wanna leave my mark on the world that I feel like I might explode, or implode. My contribution, today, is to start this blog. What a pathetic attempt at immortality. I’m sure, on hitting “Publish” in the next few minutes, my sense of needing-to-achieve will not have been satisfied.