don't think about them much as they are quite rare here,
3 real snakes:
The adder (Vipera berus) - the only poisonous one
The smooth snake (Coronella austriaca) - extremely rare in Britain
The grass snake (Natrix natrix) - quite common. The only one you are ever likely to see.
There is also the slow worm (Anguis fragilis), a legless lizard which looks like a stout snake and can sometimes be found breeding in compost heaps. Probably the most common British reptile.
so you see why I don't worry about the things. If I am abroad I respect the things but are not afraid of them. I used to own Two Pythons when I was married to my first Husband.
Ryder you would like Ireland as they are the only Country that has no native snakes at all. According to legend St Patrick on his return to the Emerald Isle banished them. below is a quote from the Fantasy of Ireland the Legend of St Patrick.
A big part of the legend of St Patrick is that he drove all the snakes out of Ireland forever. In this part of the legend of St Patrick, he filled the Emerald Isle with lush shamrock fields to keep the snakes from ever returning. People say that shamrocks would grow wherever St Patrick had preached.
An old Irish blessing says,
There's a dear little plant that grows in our isle,
'Twas Saint Patrick himself, sure, that set it;
And the sun of his labor with pleasure did smile,
And with dew from his eye often wet it.
It grows through the bog, through the brake, through the mireland
And they call it the dear little Shamrock of Ireland
It is true that you won't find any snakes in Ireland. Believers in Irish folklore take this as proof that St Patrick indeed did banish all the serpents from the Emerald Isle.
This part of the legend of St Patrick is validated to some by the fact that snakes are never seen in fields of shamrocks anywhere in the world, and that shamrocks can indeed be used as a remedy for snake venom.
The question is whether or not they were ever there at all. Some scholars believe that there have never been snakes in Ireland. The more romantic folk believe St Patrick really did perform a Divine miracle and drove them out.
Actually most people these days realize that this part of the legend of St Patrick is probably just a metaphor for the fact that he did indeed drive out the pagan beliefs and rituals, which are commonly associated with snakes.