h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

FS i correct motor coaches (buses between cities and towns) are a relaxed form of transport and the countryside is on display to you as you travel. Rail travel is faster but not so door to door as a coach, and the view from the train is not as nice its grimy and industrial.

Happy (Dude, not Nerd) used to drive a private hire cab in London. I should ask him if he still does...

I have also always drove a standard and that's a good reason NOT to rent one in the UK. I would keep rolling down the window every time I needed to shift. (Says the old geezer who remembers winding windows up and down.) The brain is split left and right and you can't transfer muscle memory across the haves.


Speaking of which...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8

I'm naturally ambidextrous.

I can still get confused on right/left determinations.

When than happens, my impulse is to slow down and think.

Taken against the demands on reflex in a high speed, high density, moving situation, that can be extremely uncomfortable.

I'd suggest in such a case training in a low traffic area.

Or just letting others do the driving if it's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime-for-2-weeks-tops* kind of thing









*Probably not that long, but a girl can dream, can't she?

Our visit to that side of the Atlantic Sea was 15 days, including travel, south-east England, south Wales, Dublin zone and finally Manc on the way out. Tubes in London, trains elsewhere, a bus to Wales and short air hops as needed. I figured that I would rather see that world than white-knuckle my way across with a hired car.