[LargeFormat] RE: Left side of the road country.

[john frost]

When I was over there for the f32 workshop, Ada did all the driving. She 
wanted me to drive, so I clumb in, looked up the street, then across the 
car to the outside mirror, and discovered that the bicycle path I was 
looking at was too narrow for that other car, and us to! I don't believe 
that I had even started the engine before she pulled me out and she 
drove the 2 weeks we were there. She never had a problem, but I sure 
did. She kept clipping grass on the berms, and the mailboxes and power 
poles were hiding in there, too.

john (:>))) it warn't too bad after I quit watching the road !!!

Jim Hemenway wrote:
> For me it's those rotaries, (roundabouts).  I'm used to the counter 
> clockwise circling here in New England but encountering the first one in 
> the UK was scary and very confusing.
> 
> Jim - http://www.hemenway.com
> 
> 
> Alan Davenport wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Anyone have thoughts on this --- is this do-able -- cost??  My desire 
>>> for
>>> this is not to avoid having to drive on the wrong side of the road (I 
>>> often
>>> do that here :( - but, it was to have the advantage of a local guide 
>>> and (if
>>> I'm fortunate) perhaps an extra back to help pack some camera equipment
>>> in --- A necessity if I take both the 4x5 and 8x10 for sure.
>>
>>
>>
>> It isn't as big a problem as you imagine.  Remember that the steering 
>> wheel
>> is also on the other side of the car, so it takes very little time to get
>> accustomed to the arrangement.  Foot pedals are the same as you're 
>> used to.
>> Of greater concern may be what to do if you meet a lorry (truck!) on 
>> one of
>> those little lanes with a stone wall on either side. You may be taking 
>> "your
>> half" out of your side of the road, but when the lorry's half amounts 
>> to more
>> like 2/3 of the road... scary stuff no matter which side you're on.
>>
> 
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