We all passed with flying colours (well sort of) and now have temporary driving licenses for the duration of our stay here. We have sorted out cars and after saying farewell to our drivers we have taken on the challenge of driving ourselves. I know I have written before about driving in this city but I think that most of my daily excitement will be as I travel from work to home. Driving is simply a series of near misses. Sometimes people don’t miss. We have automatics so that when we get to roundabouts all we had to concentrate of was driving. Now the first challenge is driving on the opposite side of the road. You need to have a little mantra each time you hop in the car. Drive right, look left as it is required to overcome the natural instinct or habits of left hand driving. Once you’re away it all falls into place until some big 4WD moves across the three lanes to exit doing 120kph with no indicator. It means there is never a dull moment.
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