Driving in the UK.
Finally, my column for the Globe and Mail, about driving in England, has gone live.
“Left lane! Barry. LEFT LANE!” shouts my wife Susan for the tenth time in the first half hour I was behind the wheel of our rented Fiat 500, negotiating the medieval laneways of Cambridge.
I’ve been driving for more than 50 years and believe I’m a good driver, but I’m realizing very quickly that habit is 99 per cent of driving. Britain, like Australia, India and Japan, is a country where you drive on the left-hand side of the road, but fighting the urge to pull into oncoming traffic on the right was just the beginning of my problems. When you need to pause and think through your actions on a high-speed British motorway, you’re a danger to yourself and everyone else on the road.
