After two years of driving surreptitiously through blind-spots-of-traffic-policemen sort of places I finally have a license.

In my driving test, which took roughly 20 seconds to complete, I was asked to demonstrate the left turn signal. Period. The rest of the time I was there, all several hours of it, I was queuing for the test itself, or for a picture, and once in front of a stall to buy some water.

Oh, and yes, I paid my bribe to the sergeant (or 'surgeon', as everybody else seemed to refer to him). That is, I paid the money to the tout, who then passed it on discreetly. Very open sort of thing: pay bribe, get license.

No wonder the roads are all going to hell.

But I'm not complaining. I'm a bit shaky on the parking the car bit.