For those of you who know my love of cars, it might be surprising to know that 10 months into my UK residence, I still don't have a car in the UK. To be truthful, it hasn't really hampered me that much. I'm a kilometer away from the grocery, work is about 13 kilometers away and I've got a bicycle that I love. One of the side effects of not having a car, is that I don't have a driver's license. I've lived here for 10 months and don't have a single piece of UK government issued ID!
But those times are changing. Now that Jill is very close to arriving (middle of November, fingers crossed) I'm going to start doing a lot more traveling. In addition, we'll need to buy a car which means some test driving. For all of these things either Jill is going to drive (over her dead body), or I'm going to have to break down to get a license.
And so I have, sort of. I've got my provisional license now which is the first step to a full driving license. In the next couple of weeks I've got to take a couple of tests and then I'll get the real thing. Then watch out Britain!
