TOUR OF IRELAND (2011)

So apparently, once you'd chopped down all your local trees, you just never had trees again.

My sister, my mother and I went on a ten-day trip to Ireland.  My mother is half Irish, her father being from an immigrant Irish family from Boston.  So the plan was to visit my mother’s (and our) homeland.  And also to check out Ireland as tourists.

We landed in Dublin, rented a car and drove in a southwestern direction on a wrong-side-of-the-road highw…