It’s really just a question of ignoring your fears and taking them head on. So I rented a car and drove on the left side. Big deal.

Indeed. I am no experienced driver. In all my life I have driven maybe 5000 Km, most of that through American or Canadian national parks, desert roads and maybe a few miles within a city or real highway.

I cannot park the car unless I car drive in head first, or the space is big enough for a truck. So yeah, big deal!

I checked everything beforehand, installed the GPS and familiarized myself with the car, indicators, lights, windscreen wipers, etc…

Then I reached left to pull down the seatbelt. Wrong. It’s on the right. Promising.

All in all, though, it went quite well. I drove 18 Km from the Airport to my hotel and only made one wrong turn, off the highway too early, but the GPS wasn’t really clear…

Otherwise, the left driving was ok. The only problem is that the windscreen wipers and the indicators have swapped places.

So instead of indicating that I want to go left, right or switch lanes, I’m seen with frantically moving windscreen wipers.

I walked through Hobart today – the parking spot I had at the hotel was too good. It’s a small city anyway.

Now I have to decide what I want to see and where I want to drive… Mt. Wellington for sure, the MONA Museum, the other side of the river, and maybe, a drive down to Port Arthur, Tassie’s dark spot as a penal colony of the… penal colony.

Some countries just drive on the left. Sweden did it, and switched in 1967. I have no idea how they managed that, in practice. You cannot switch all signs overnight…

And I get it: driving left on an island, no sweat.

But what do they do at the frontier with India, or in Africa…?