Just wanted to share a quick story in case someone’s in a similar boat.
I moved to the UK a couple of years ago and put off getting my licence for far too long. I had a full licence from back home but didn’t realise I could only drive here on it for 12 months. After that, I had to go through the whole process again – theory, lessons, practical… the works.
Biggest challenge for me was unlearning some habits from driving abroad – especially with roundabouts and speed awareness. I failed my first practical for not checking mirrors enough (lesson learned!). Second time around, I was way more confident and passed.
If anyone’s in the middle of this process – stick with it. It’s a pain at first but definitely doable. Let me know if you’re stuck with anything, happy to share what helped me out.
Not long married my hubby had a job offer in South Africa. When I left UK i had , had about 6 driving lesson’s. My friend in SA offerd to teach me to drive, At the time in the SA test you had to do reverse parking? my friend would take me to a row of parked car’s ok there is a gap over there, now reverse park the car into that gap. Well when my driving lesson had finished, and we returned home, when my friend stepped out of the car, his shirt was so wet on his back if fact it was so wet it looked as though it had been washed and left. We returned back to the OK I took driving lesson again and passed first time. When I went to SA the driving test was a lot harder to get than in the UK. ps The car in SA was a small Truck