There is a rant coming..you have been warned.
The hardest thing for a Brit living abroad is the roads. The fact that the world drives on the wrong side of the road is not good!
I am like an owl when I cross the road as my head swivels around checking all angles.
Even after two years I still have to think about it. During the summer on my bike was also a testing time.
So why is it that when I go running people walk on the left!!
I come running along on the right, as I have learnt, yet many Swedes carry on walking on the left. Is this some kind of unwritten rule? Drive on the right walk on the left?
Oh and why do a lot of people not move out of the way for a jogger. I know I always did as I felt sorry for them, one day I may decide that as they are not moving then I wont either. I wouldnt want 94.6 kilos (like that!) of this blogger charging through me….
Rant over and thank you.
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Maybe they’ve been taking some Interesting Drug…?
On the Streets I Ran?
Yes, that´s true. Walk to the left and bike´s to the right. But when You walk in a building you walk to the right. Dizzy swedes hehe…
You walk on the left so that you MEET the trafic rather than having it approaching you from the back.
They teach you this in school and Swedes tend to stay very loyal to the school teachings.
This includes myself.
I was very surprised that – when visiting London for the first time and it started raining – people didnt run around Oxford Street saying:
- dear me, its raining cats and dogs!
Instead, all I heard was “its fu–ing pissing down”. Now they never teached me that in school…
I can understand that if you are walking on a road but the middle of Årstafältet?
Mind you as I wrote before there have been a lot of trucks dumping snow so…
I can honestly say that I have never said its raining cats and dogs and I come from an area of the UK where it rains a lot.
I did once say it in Swedish in the office to the amusement of my colleagues..det regner katter och hundar…..