Well, the good news is that I survived my first experience driving on the wrong side of the road. After picking up everyone at the airport we loaded up in to a ford minivan and a Mercedes A-class. I was the pilot of the A-class, a nice little diesel. Dad & I were in that with everyone else in the minivan. The drive from Heathrow to Celtic Manor went without any issues. Total driving time of a bit under 2 hours. Early on we lost my brother as he just took off. Apparently he didn't realize his speedometer was in MPH instead of KPH. So he was doing 90-95 in the 70 mph sections. Guess we'll see if any speed cameras caught him along the way.
The drive was actually fun. Well, other than my dad constantly motioning to move more to the right of the lane even when I was in the dead center. At one point he said "you're going to hit this curb coming up...". Then we pull up, past said curb, and stop at a light. he opens his door to check it out and says "see, you only have a foot left". I'm sure it was much more than a foot though, I wasn't even on the concrete part of the lane :) The rest of the drive was on the M4 so it was just easy going. I feel pretty good about driving on the wrong side though, not as scary as I expected.
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