In Australia, the traffic flows on the opposite sides of the street in comparison to North America. It is quite hard to get used to, and we are often looking a million times before crossing the streets in order to avoid being crushed.
In most places downtown, they have signs painted on the street reminding tourists which way to look, but an adjustment is still required. It seems however that not only are the drivers and cars on the right...but the pedestrians as well.
We need to observe this phenomena more closely, but during our walk from Bondi to Coogee yesterday, we noted that while we Canadians had the tendency to go to the right to let oncoming pedestrians pass...locals were going left. After quite a few awkward passes, we realized that we needed to go left!
We have many more walks planned...so we'll keep you up to date if this Sydneyism is a fact...or just particular to the Bondi to Coogee trail :)
The passing people on the left is a fact. I forgot about that. Sometimes when walking downtown in Toronto I have almost bumped into tourist when they step out infront of me. I immediately know that they are from a "drive left side of the road" country.
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