Update on driving
My friend Marina (in montreal) introduced me to her friend Amanda who lives south of Auckland.
She was kind enough to meet up, so we had a fun dinner and went to a local bar called Lenin.
Their gimmick is a bit of Communist imagery (some "переходящее кразное знамя" gratuituos red flags), and their logo is a red flag with a martini glass and an olive instead of a hammer and cicle. In addition, it's right next to the "Minus 5" bar, which is an "ice bar" - you pay $20 to get in for 20 mins, the bar is made interely of ice and you drink from ice glasses. Great idea, but since Lenin has the windows into the ice bar, there really was no need to pay $20 for a drink to try it out.
Anyway, Amanda was a lot of fun, and after a few of my "must be hard to drive on the wrong side" jokes offered me to try and drive her car.
Well, turns out it was standard (ie stick-shift) transmission. So not only did i have to deal with driving on "wrong" side of the road, I had to remember to shift with my left hand. Let's not forget that i'm not so good with driving stick to begin with!
The funniest part is that noone ever tells you that blinkers and windshield wiper controls are also switched - so all the time instead of turning on the signal i'd turn on the wipers! Needless to say, Amanda almost had a heart attack!
so there it is - i've driven on the wrong side of the road (for about 10 minutes). it was fun, but i'm pretty sure i'll be getting an automatic transmission when i rent a car for when Rama and I travel in south island.
She was kind enough to meet up, so we had a fun dinner and went to a local bar called Lenin.
Their gimmick is a bit of Communist imagery (some "переходящее кразное знамя" gratuituos red flags), and their logo is a red flag with a martini glass and an olive instead of a hammer and cicle. In addition, it's right next to the "Minus 5" bar, which is an "ice bar" - you pay $20 to get in for 20 mins, the bar is made interely of ice and you drink from ice glasses. Great idea, but since Lenin has the windows into the ice bar, there really was no need to pay $20 for a drink to try it out.
Anyway, Amanda was a lot of fun, and after a few of my "must be hard to drive on the wrong side" jokes offered me to try and drive her car.
Well, turns out it was standard (ie stick-shift) transmission. So not only did i have to deal with driving on "wrong" side of the road, I had to remember to shift with my left hand. Let's not forget that i'm not so good with driving stick to begin with!
The funniest part is that noone ever tells you that blinkers and windshield wiper controls are also switched - so all the time instead of turning on the signal i'd turn on the wipers! Needless to say, Amanda almost had a heart attack!
so there it is - i've driven on the wrong side of the road (for about 10 minutes). it was fun, but i'm pretty sure i'll be getting an automatic transmission when i rent a car for when Rama and I travel in south island.
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