broadening a horizon

If you could have prejudice against the Irish, what stereotypes would you fall on?

The heavy drinking? Their height? Randomly strewn pots of gold? Ryanair’s unfathomable business plans and customer torture care systems?

Flights aside, the Irish are supposedly “known” for being boozers and being charmers at the same time. For being piggy backed by thousands of Americans who will bend over backwards to claim a bit of Kerry as their own homeland. For unabashedly hating the English.

There is only travel to open our eyes to whether or not these stereotypes hold any thread or grain of truth. Travel to Ireland. Hire a car. See the land. Be open about the British-ness and see if, just as in the advertisement campaigns, you’ll be met with a warm, cosy bar setting, a pint of Guinness and an opportunity to sing into the night.

But don’t fly Ryanair.

(Fly Aer Lingus, car rental Dublin, watch the ad and compare)

road trip pt 1: explanation

Thinking in frames recently has got my aspirations up. Updating posts is not something I had wanted to do but I think with the fancy dress idea it’ll probably work fine. The category will suffer unless I get creative on it’s behind though.

Anyway, different day, different topic. Talking with my wife in my car whenever we travel, we always end up vomiting fabulously dreamy road trippy ideas that in principle, would make for beautiful holidays. Of course, should we ever get to book one of these travel opiates, I’ll have no idea of what we previously discussed, unless (we all see the direction I’m taking here…) I write them down somewhere.

So…

In terms of my usual poor wit, expect slightly less. These posts are going to be more about travel, and travel options rather than me commenting on how life in general could throw a moderately-hairy-and-in-need-of-a-shave dog a bone. They’ll be funny in a I want to travel this way not that, with glamour and style not breakdowns and bile.

I’ll be looking into EU countries (at first, purely because they’re closer) and detailing a couple (or more) orgasmic options for rumbustious road trips around their beauteous back roads. Maybe I’ll alliterate some more too.

Hmm. I’ll save the ones I’m really keen on for later in the series, so those of you that know me and are thinking “… Germany, Germany Germany”, you’ll just have to wait to be correct.

Of course, with driving in different countries, I need a car. I could use my happy little C4 VTR+, but wouldn’t it be cooler if I got to drive a different car in EVERY country?! That way, as well as enjoying the lands, I can enjoy the opportunity to drive some sweet (or not so sweet, it’s a roulette world) vehicles. Vehicles. That word always makes me think of an American cop saying “Step aWAY from the vee-HIC-ill”.

So I’ll be using some car rental companies then. Hertz, Enterprise, AVIS, Car Hire Ireland (hmm, where am I going…) etc etc etc.

Word to the wise then, if you don’t want travel, you want cracking humour of real life situations, wait for non-road trippy typing.

If you do… start sitting wishing waiting. The storm is coming…