Driving on right hand side

pollyanna24

Thanks everyone. Still undecided whether to hire a car when out there. My sister in law says she will drive us about, but think it will be too much for her and she won't want to do the little journeys to the beach or the supermarket.

From what I can see on the map, it's a straight road from the airport down to the villa where we are staying, so was just going to hire a car and drive that way.

Will look up this code that someone has mentioned.

Not sure about an automatic. I drove my brother's automatic car around the block once and was constantly looking for a clutch and gear stick, but I guess you get used to it.

I live in Herts, so not majorally busy where I live, but not quiet either, though I did drive to work once (Central London, well West End) on a Sunday cos there was free parking and the tube line wasn't working. Don't think I'd like to do it again what with all the one way systems!

The above paragraph was just to give a gist as to how scared / confident I am of driving.

pollyanna24

Still thinking about what to do.

The only trips I will be really be doing is from the Airport down to Kathalos and back again. My mum has looked it up and taxis are €70 each way. Car hire is about £132, but I will have to add on child seats.

The only other trips will be around Kathalos and Lindos going between various parties, villas and hotels (it's my brother's wedding), but I don't particularly want to drive for these as I want to drink, haha!!

Wouldn't mind driving to the beach, but think it is walkable (although tell that to a 6yr old and a 4yr old), plus we have a pool.

I think I'm convincing myself not to hire a car and just use a cab for the two main journeys.

Is it easy enough to book a cab from one villa to another, i.e. where do we find numbers and how do we book it (do they speak good English over there)? There will be five of us, me, Mum, Dad and my two daughters.

benjus

IanMSpencer wrote: »

We were in a bar chatting to the locals in France once, and they could not understand how the British managed to change from one side of the road to the other coming over the channel (this was in the days of using the hovercraft, shows how long ago that conversation was!).

It's interesting isn't it? Most of my wife's family (she's from somewhere that drives on the right, as do most countries) wouldn't even consider trying to drive here when they visit.

We just have to live with it as almost everywhere we visit drives on the other side.

Gloomendoom

benjus wrote: »

It's interesting isn't it? Most of my wife's family (she's from somewhere that drives on the right, as do most countries) wouldn't even consider trying to drive here when they visit.

We just have to live with it as almost everywhere we visit drives on the other side.

It struck me that other day that almost everywhere we visit drives on the left.

WellKnownSid

Gloomendoom wrote: »

It struck me that other day that almost everywhere we visit drives on the left.

You don't get that problem in Spain. Mostly they just tend drive in the middle....

AdrianC

Gloomendoom wrote: »

It struck me that other day that almost everywhere we visit drives on the left.

There's more countries than you think, but it's still a fairly short list.

Australia, Caribbean, South Africa, Ireland, Malta, India. Mostly, bits of the globe that used to be pink... Japan's the most notable exception to that.

Gloomendoom

AdrianC wrote: »

There's more countries than you think, but it's still a fairly short list.

It's not that short. It makes up about one third of the countries in the world.


Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Bermuda
Bhutan
Botswana
Brunei
Cayman Islands
Christmas Island
Cocos Islands
Cook Islands
Cyprus
Dominica
East Timor (drove on right 1928–1976)
Falkland Islands
Fiji
Grenada
Guernsey
Guyana
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Isle of Man
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Macau
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Montserrat
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
New Zealand
Niue
Norfolk Island
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Pitcairn Islands
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa (since 2009)
Seychelles
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Swaziland
Tanzania
Thailand
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom
British Virgin Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Gloomendoom

WellKnownSid wrote: »

You don't get that problem in Spain. Mostly they just tend drive in the middle....

Similar to Malta where they just drive on side that's in the shade.

Moto2

I bet it was fun to sit and watch the world go by that morning back in 1967 when the Swedes swapped from driving on the left to the right

AdrianC

Gloomendoom wrote: »

It's not that short. It makes up about one third of the countries in the world.

<snip long list comprising almost entirely of tiny countries and ex-colonies>

Absolutely...