We’re asking visitors to write and leave love letters to Wellington in the Te Upoko o te Ika a Māui exhibition at the Museum of Wellington City & Sea. The exhibition features people's stories and passion about the greater Wellington region. One letter per day is selected to add to this blog. We welcome and encourage conversation and feedback to each letter.
Love Letters to Wellington
Thursday 18 July 2013
Perfecting hill-starts
I learnt to drive a manual car in Wellington. You get real good at hill-starts real quick. Some of my friends back home still can't do them properly.
My father used to stop me on a rise just before the railway line in Carterton and make me practice hill starts there. I'd worry each time when I took off that the signal lights were faulty and that a train would be passing at the same time!
Yup, I learned to drive on the Kapiti Coast and lived in Wgtn for ages before I mastered a hill start...
ReplyDeleteMy father used to stop me on a rise just before the railway line in Carterton and make me practice hill starts there. I'd worry each time when I took off that the signal lights were faulty and that a train would be passing at the same time!
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