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

Don't. First of all, they drive on the wrong side of the road. Apologies to all you Brits, but you know it's the truth, and damn silly too if you ask me. It's not sufficient that you drive on the bloody wrong side of the road, you've got to get other people doing it as well. There you go, corrupting the helpless natives of Caribbean islands, you knew would have no chance at all to check with the Auto Club first. Now it's too late to change them, they've been brainwashed for so long, they couldn't change anymore than they can fly. And you only did it because you couldn't admit that you were driving on the wrong side of the road, so you got others driving on the wrong side of the road just so you could say "Hey it's not just us". Well, in any case, like I said before, don't drive in the BVI. It won't do you any good in any case, because you can't get past the Taxis anyway. So you might as well be sitting in the back seat of the cab in the air conditioning, gritting your teeth, while the driver chats with everyone he meets on the road as be in a rental car behind him doing the same. Don't expect the cab ride to go smoothly either. Aside from the constant stopping to chat every few feet, you can also expect him to pick up hitchhikers as well (while charging you $40 for the ride). In a single ride from Beef Island Airport to the resort, our taxi hit a donkey, picked up three women, made a detour to let them off one at a time, hit a bicyclist riding on the wrong side of the road (not the American wrong side, the British wrong side), stopped three times to chat with drivers coming the opposite direction, killed the engine on a steep hill and had to back down around a hairpin turn to get another run at it, and tried to run over a chicken but missed. The BVI are beautiful and worth the trip, but don't drive.