Driving left seat manual transmission

This is where I live.

Beautiful area, can be quite rugged and wild depending on the weather on the day.

The roads here vary from fairly wide (by British standards) A roads, to narrow lanes with lots of bends. The lanes are often only wide enough for one and a half cars to pass, one of you is either in a hedgerow or teetering on the edge of a ditch :D

If you're planning to hire a wide car, planning to get off the well beaten track now and then, and are concerned about narrow roads, I'd definitely suggest an automatic.

Your itinerary overall sounds very interesting!

Ravenscroft,

My ancestors from Lancashire and Cumbria were Garnett,

Also, I had another ancestor, Sir Lancelot Threlkeld, who was Sheriff of Cumberland in the 14th Century.

We are Australians, which is a drive on the left country. We recently rented a hire care on the island of Sardina in Italy, a drive on the right country.

We rented a manual, but at the end of it all, we wished we had hired an automatic. Enough confusion for the brain to cope with already! And like the OP, it was because of the cost!