It wouldn't be Ireland if something just happened with the government without there being some lines and some money to pass out. When you see cars driving around Ireland, they all have this rather unsightly set of papers stuck to the passenger side of the front windscreen (like that use of the proper Irish word for windshield??!!!). The lessons began late yesterday on just what all those things are.
- NCT disk. This proves that the car you are driving is road worthy. It must go through a thorough test every two years to include stuff like headlight alignment (I knew you could do this, but in my 30 years of driving, I don't think I've ever actually had it done or done it myself.) Now I get to pay someone to do it for me bi-yearly. I'm sure there's a few other worthwhile checks, but haven't found them yet. Good thing for us is that we don't have to pay to have this done for 6 months.
- Insurance disk. This one shows that you have insurance. Pretty straight forward UNLESS you are a newbie American WITHOUT any current insurance. Insurance can only be issued to someone with an Irish driver's licence. This week we get to pay an optician to give us eye exams and a form to prove we took it. We get to buy a book to study to take the Driver's Theory Test and then take the test to show we know the rules of the road and pass out a little more EUR. Oh, then we get to find an insurance company. AND ONLY THEN can we take all this stuff to the Motor Tax office (with some more money) to get our ....
- Motor Tax Disk. This one shows you paid your taxes to drive. It is based on the CO2 output of your car and can vary from EUR 146 if you choose to drive an electric car that goes from 0-60 in an hour and a half, to EUR 1566 if you drive a Ford F350 king cab with a full bed and dual back tires (not that you could find it here if you wanted one.) The Rames' had the opportunity to get on the lower end of the scale, but the Renault Megane we drove just seemed like a piece of cr&p. Rod had the best response when asked what one he thought was better. He said, "Dad, you can't really compare these two. This one is not nearly as nice." Very true, but we decided that rather than drive on the wrong side of the road AND get a manual transmission, we'd just drive on the wrong side of the road. I think Martha stalling the car a few times on the test drive had something to do with it also.
Our week will be full of these little trips to get this stuff in order and we don't have a chance in hell of getting it all done before we REALLY need the van on Friday. There's always someone willing to take some EUR from us to get our stuff moved. We'll let you know how it goes.
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