My Driving Lessons Blog

My name is Ann, I'm a professional legal secretary working for a top law firm in the city of London, and this is my driving lessons blog.

As a busy person living in Hampstead, NW3, London, I've never given much thought to taking driving lessons and getting a full british licence until recently because I haven't really had a need for a car. I live close to the London underground stattion (tube), have a bus stop closeby with the west end, oxford street being just a ride away, and the Cinema at the O2 centre not that far away either, so all my transportation needs are easily met.

A recent trip to the United States of America got me thinking though, as the family I stayed with had 3 cars not because they wanted to show off, but it was necessary for them to get about. The driving age in the US is 16, so their teenaged son also had a car to get to college, the shops and football practice.
This provoked me to think about the need for me to be able to drive a car if the need ever arrived, so I decided that I would dust off my provisional driving licence and start preparing to get my full licence.

I didn't want to use AA or BSM, but neither did I want to just take any cheap driving lessons, so I did some research on the internet checking various websites and asked around my friends for recommendations before finally settling with my current instructor who operates an independent driving school in Mill Hill, North West London.

The reason I'm writing this lesson's blog is to keep a public diary of my learning to drive progress, but I enjoy writing as well, so just using it as an excuse.

I'm looking forward to my first driving lesson, and while I'm a little bit scared of losing control of the car, I've never been someone to back off from a challenge so bring it on!