I’m in training to pass Ireland’s notoriously difficult driving test, and even though I drove in the states for more than 20 years, it is proving to be quite challenging.

Virginia Hardy from Strangford, Co. Down in Northern Ireland learned to drive in 1947 in a Rover Saloon and has since then completed driving tests in Scotland, China, and the USA.

Driving on the left was only one of the many challenges during our weeklong tour through Ireland. Some of the roads in Ireland are crazy narrow, with no shoulders and solid-rock walls inches from ...