Challenging Mental Obstacles When Learning to Drive

I’ve wondered how to deal with the obstacles I’ve found in Koh Chang and how driving lessons can help us deal with those obstacles.

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The Benefits of Being a British Road Driver

I’m writing this whilst sitting in a mini bus on my way to Bangkok Airport from Koh Chang. Observing the driving and thinking of the UK.

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Learner Driver’s Guide to Smart Motorways

Learner drivers will be allowed to have lessons on motorways to ensure that new drivers, under supervision, will experience motorway driving.

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Driving on the Sunshine Island of Koh Chang

Living on a tourist island has its own challenges when the terrain is different to that, which you’d usually drive at home.

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What’s The Cost of Pollution in London?

From the 23rd of October, an additional charge has been added for older vehicles driving into London, on top of the £11.50 congestion charge.

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Freedom…

Is there a moment in life when you see something and realise freedom is attainable? You can feel it in your hands, it’s something tangible.

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Videos of the New ‘Show Me, Tell Me’ Driving Test Questions

There will be changes to the “Show me, tell me” part of the UK driving test. The questions, and how you’ll be asked them will change.

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The Importance of Maintaining a Vehicle

I’m on the island of Koh Chang in southern thailand, close to the Cambodian border. It is one of the hilliest islands I’ve been to and one where I’m noticing many a juddery clutch on the vehicles. It has its charm, this island which has a national park laying at its heart. The winding roads […]

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Standing on the Parapet Overlooking Bangkok

I’m standing on the parapet of the skytrain in Bangkok. I look down to the traffic below and attempt to look for order in its chaos. The driving in the city reminds me a little of what it’s like to drive in London and yet there are some subtle differences in our culture, which make […]

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The Thing About Multi-Storey Car Parks

Here’s the thing. The multi-storey car park in my home town, I have always thought of as a bit of a challenge. Like climbing the Eiger mountain. A challenge which I didn’t understand. For many years I balked at driving up the whirly-gig circular ramp,going round and round, rising ever higher above the town – […]

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