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Driving Lessons

Bermuda doesn't recognise any driving license. Lucky for their driving instructors, cos all expats need to retake lessons (to learn about the UNIQUE driving conditions they have on the island, no less) in order to drive. Even if you had 20 over years of driving experience and could probably drive home on the reverse gear, you had to retake lessons. And lessons are not cheap mind you, USD60 per hour.

My instructor is this very nice lady who's patient and kind. had 2 lessons so far, monday and today. one more on saturday and i think i'm ready to take the test next monday. test involves a reverse "S" course, which is new to me, parallel parking (another one which i'm outta touch. who needs to park parallel in sgp?!?) and some 10 mins of driving in the city. i tell you, their roads are as bad as london's. 2-way streets, lead off to 1-way streets without warning whatsoever. i've bee recce-ing the potential routes to memorise them by heart. Dun wanna waste more money on this although my instructor is really quite nice to talk to. Wish me loads of luck.

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