Car

We have brought the car. The 1996 Peugeot 306 Diesel Turbo. It is not the world's quickest car, I can't imagine a diesel without turbo. We are quite happy with the car. It has 5 door and is quite spacious and most importantly quite stable at high speed, i hope. We haven't done more than 40mph on it yet.. maybe we will go somewhere this weekend, maybe the costwold.

Driving here is certainly different to OZ. When I get close to home, the first thing i have to do is to keep an eye out for parking spaces and if the places closer to home is unavailable, then i will have to turn back and park at the available spaces. The car is at different location, street every night.

It is not like oz where you can just rock up to your garage and then press the controller to open the automatic door and presto, you are home, you need not worry about the weather.

Here, we have to fold our side mirrors too because the footpath and the roads are small.

Driving here is about compromise as most small roads are one lane, due to cars parking on each side.

Our has a cassette player which i don't think we will ever use as we didn't bring any tapes or have any tapes to bring. At least the radio works. It doesn't have air cond but i doubt it if i would need to use it. It does have a sun roof which is handy.