Tuesday, September 26, 2006

driving in Scotland, part 1


No, we aren't passing anybody. No, the photo hasn't been "flipped" left over right.

Laurel wanted to try her hand at the wheel and I was grateful. That put me in the passenger seat, which in this case meant the left side.

Driving on the left is the first thing you notice in the UK. Even as a pedestrian, you have to look right instead of left, and then look left halfway across the street.

Note the stone fence on the right side of the road. Note the narrow shoulders. Sometimes the stone fence is on the left with the same narrow clearance. This isn't too bad on a dry day if you have no tour buses hogging the road. On a rainy day the road seems narrower. We had only a day and a half of rain but my passengers thought even that was too much.

Driving in the cities is a whole 'nother story, which I'll get around to later.

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