I had my final lesson (out of a block of 10) on Tuesday. Final – because I can’t afford more at the moment. It took one and a half hours and felt quite long to me!   I am not sure if I will ever get used to driving. My instructor was still worried I’d …

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Well due to the holidays, my instructor was off and my next lesson will be this Wednesday. I am nervous as long breaks can really affect my confidence. Hopefully though it will go fairly smoothly and I will learn how to park a car.

I had another driving lesson last Friday and after a nervous start I managed to get through the lesson without big problems. My driving instructor wanted me to get used to traffic lights and how to wait (hand brake on, relax feet and count to 12), how get ready (make sure the car is in …

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I haven’t posted for a while and my last lesson was on Thursday last week. It went surprisingly well. I only stalled once, managed to turn left or right without many problems and am finally getting used to the proper way of stirring (i.e. pull and push instead of dangerously crossing my hands over the wheel!). …

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I had another driving lesson after a four-week break, which meant I was super nervous and made stupid little mistakes – I  know  I shouldn’t have left it for so long. I stalled three times and managed to go into 5th instead of 3rd  gear several times. I should practise outside my lessons but rather …

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I can’t believe my own stupidity. I just managed to somehow delete my entry twice. So it’s back to writing it offline in word and pasting it into my blogging software. What a pain.   Anyway I am back from London where visited some very good friends of mine and my cousin and his girlfriend. …

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Today I had my first driving lesson after a 3 week break. I am still finding steering the correct way hard to get used to, but more worrysome to me are roundabouts. Britain's traffic seems to mainly consist of these confusing traffic measures. In theory everyone supposed to know what there are doing, but Cardiff has some famous accident spots where drivers …

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