Driving on the left.

[glyn]

This trip has been my first experience driving in the UK, and it's not exactly what I expected. Friends and family really wound me up about how difficult and nerve-wracking it is to switch from right to left. To be sure, I've had to bear that fact in mind constantly, but the switch felt fairly natural. That's been true for most of the regulation

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[greylopht]

Oh gods, stay out of London. Only take a Bus or a Taxi around London. Lets not forget some of the street lights are 2 minutes red 8 seconds green.. The counter flows and the busses! Gods rot the fucking Busses and the fucking Bus Lane!

Also dont drive around Oxford or Cambridge. But the B roads are the best for sceenery and they are also the calmest. But yeah the transition to the other side of the road (the propper side) is no big deal. As well the roundabouts are a snap, and I miss the fact that every street is labled. Here where I am stuck in TN there are NO signs, NO numbers on the curbs or the buildings. No here it is. 'You go past of Mc Duffys Barn, the old one that burned down not the new one. Turn left there and then oh over yonder bout a few miles down (they mean 10) ya turn at that old oak tree...' Blarg it fucking sucks, even Mo was labled better :P

So what did ya rent or buy, A Pug 206? Citroen C4? A C6 (Drools) Perhaps a Megane. Anything but a Vauxhaull Astra diesel :P

~Grey

[glyn]

Yep, we had no desire to drive in London. We stuck to the tube while we stayed there, and only hired the car the day we left, so we could drive straight out. A hair-raising introduction to British roads, to be sure!

I hear you about road signs. Picking out the names of roads here is a different skill, because they put them on buildings and fences, not on street signs. I'm starting to get the hang of it, but it's disorienting.

Close guess! We hired a Peugeot 207 CC, petrol. An economy car in a hard-top convertible so dad doesn't feel quite so old. It's been great for enjoying the countryside, but it labours up hills. I've got too used to my Subaru, which could probably do all of this climbing in third.

[glyn]

Here's a shot we took of the car on our trip through the Yorkshire countryside. (I've been keeping Flickr up to date as we travel, and so there are new shots there nearly every day.)

[greylopht]

Oh forgot to say, mind you speed. Speed cameras frickin everywhere :P