I hired a car once, well, a Spaniard did. He drove it round Scotland with me in it – and some other people. It was a very good way of getting round, actually. I do recommend car hire as being better than buses and perhaps even train. The car is great.

That is, until your driver drives on the wrong side of the road because he is Spanish and doesn’t agree that people should drive on that side of the road. Nobody else in Europe does, so why should Scottish people?

So anyway, this Spaniard did crash at one point. But he actually crashed on the RIGHT side of the road – that is, the LEFT side of the road. He drove into the side of a van, which caused quite a bit of damage to the car – and the van.

Overall, it was still an amazing holiday and one that was only really possible with car hire. Considering what we got out of our Scottish road trip, it was definitely worth it.