ROUNDABOUTS

If you are going to drive in Ireland, you have to learn how to navigate a Roundabout. They have roundabouts here in most intersections. Sometimes they have traffic lights with roundabouts, controlling how many cars can enter the roundabout at a time. You enter a roundabout in one of two lanes, depending on how far you are going to go in the roundabout. If you're going to go all the way around to the last street (there can be anywhere from 2 to 5 different streets intersecting the roundabout) then you need to be in the right (or inside) lane. If you're going to the first street, then you need to be in the left lane.

You are supposed to signal as you go around the roundabout. Here is how it works:
As you approach the roundabout, you are in the right lane because you are going to go to the 2nd street. You put your right blinker on, but you don't turn right, because remember you're supposed to drive on the left, so you always enter the roundabout by turning to the left (all roundabouts are one-way). As soon as you pass the 1st street, you put your left blinker on so the person behind you knows you are going to go left at the next street. One time we didn't know what street we were supposed to take, so we just went around and around the roundabout until we finally saw it. I'm sure people watching thought, "What the heck are those people doing?" I really hate roundabouts. I don't understand what is wrong with a nice traffic light?