Práctica Test is a great resource. I just kept doing tests and at some point I went from failing most of them to passing all of them. It’s definitely a process and sucked but after six years of driving on my American license, I finally had to get it over with. Suerte 🙏🏼
My wife and I (Americans in Spain) are eternally grateful that we didn't have to do that process. We had the good sense 😏 to live in the UK first, where driving school wasn't required to get a license.
Pretty ironic though, that all we had to do in Spain was pay a small fee and cash it in. Coming from the States and learning some new signs? Rigorous testing. Coming from the UK and *switching sides of the road*. Here you go, enjoy Spain.
The weirdest new Spanish thing was turning right when the light goes green, and then immediately stopping because the light on the cross street *is red*. Of course it is. Logical, but, man, that took some getting used to.
I'm with you on the metric thing. To this day, when the GPS guy says, "In 200 metres, turn right", I still have no idea how far that is.
¡Gracias! Maybe our first stop should've been one of those countries where they drive on the "wrong" side of the road. 🤣 I heard New Zealand can just switch their licenses out, too.
When we arrived in the Netherlands, I was extremely sick. Got picked up by our sponsor at the airport and when he dropped us o ff at our hotel he casually mentioned that he would pick us up at 9 am the next day to get our license. He gave us a book and told us to study it overnight. I was in a huge panic. I told Ron I was too sick to do it but it appeared we really didn't have a choice. I told him fine, I would go just to know what to expect the next time as I knew I was going to fail. He picked us up and it turned out we would go to a 2 hour class first and then we would take the exam. One of the things our instructor told us, was any time I will ask you "is this safe" the answer is ALWAYS no. Nothing is safe when you are in a car. LOL. Anyway, I passed. I think their main goal was to get American military on the road ASAP so they made it as easy as possible.
I've heard that getting a license in Norway is a long process as well. You need to pay for the driver's course which is over $25,000 per person. It is usually people in their 40-50's getting a license for the first time as it is so expensive. Luckily for us, if you were military, you were exempt and could drive on your country's license as long as you carried it and your military id card with you at all times.
It will cost about €1,000 each for us with the driving schools. I don't think we will need too many classes, but they're a requirement, so we'll have to take at least some. Just another challenge in living abroad!
Práctica Test is a great resource. I just kept doing tests and at some point I went from failing most of them to passing all of them. It’s definitely a process and sucked but after six years of driving on my American license, I finally had to get it over with. Suerte 🙏🏼
Gracias! It's coming along. I still don't feel confident enough to take the test yet, but I'm slowly getting there.
My wife and I (Americans in Spain) are eternally grateful that we didn't have to do that process. We had the good sense 😏 to live in the UK first, where driving school wasn't required to get a license.
Pretty ironic though, that all we had to do in Spain was pay a small fee and cash it in. Coming from the States and learning some new signs? Rigorous testing. Coming from the UK and *switching sides of the road*. Here you go, enjoy Spain.
The weirdest new Spanish thing was turning right when the light goes green, and then immediately stopping because the light on the cross street *is red*. Of course it is. Logical, but, man, that took some getting used to.
I'm with you on the metric thing. To this day, when the GPS guy says, "In 200 metres, turn right", I still have no idea how far that is.
Anyway, *suerte*!
¡Gracias! Maybe our first stop should've been one of those countries where they drive on the "wrong" side of the road. 🤣 I heard New Zealand can just switch their licenses out, too.
New Zealand?? I would have got that trivia question wrong !
When we arrived in the Netherlands, I was extremely sick. Got picked up by our sponsor at the airport and when he dropped us o ff at our hotel he casually mentioned that he would pick us up at 9 am the next day to get our license. He gave us a book and told us to study it overnight. I was in a huge panic. I told Ron I was too sick to do it but it appeared we really didn't have a choice. I told him fine, I would go just to know what to expect the next time as I knew I was going to fail. He picked us up and it turned out we would go to a 2 hour class first and then we would take the exam. One of the things our instructor told us, was any time I will ask you "is this safe" the answer is ALWAYS no. Nothing is safe when you are in a car. LOL. Anyway, I passed. I think their main goal was to get American military on the road ASAP so they made it as easy as possible.
I've heard that getting a license in Norway is a long process as well. You need to pay for the driver's course which is over $25,000 per person. It is usually people in their 40-50's getting a license for the first time as it is so expensive. Luckily for us, if you were military, you were exempt and could drive on your country's license as long as you carried it and your military id card with you at all times.
I wish you luck! You've got this.
$25,000? 😱
It will cost about €1,000 each for us with the driving schools. I don't think we will need too many classes, but they're a requirement, so we'll have to take at least some. Just another challenge in living abroad!