Day Five: Driving through the Wicklow Mountains and more...
We are free today to go wherever the road takes us. That is, as long as we are headed to Waterford and take the route I planned out in great detail. Today Jen and I picked up our rental car from the Dublin airport. Getting there was a little tricky but we managed. We road DART (Dublin area rapid transit) to the bus station and then took a shuttle to the airport. Here's another plug for packing light when traveling in Europe, especially if you are using multiple means of transportation, the less stuff you have the easier it is to get on and off the bus, subway, train, etc. Unfortunately, we had my wheel chair; which, even though it was light and compact when I wasn't using it, made it a little more difficult to get from one place to the next. When we got to the airport we picked up our rental car. Thankfully, Jen is both an expert at driving a stick and driving on the other side of the road (from living in Australia), so she did all the driving, and she did great! We reser