I have just acquired my manual Mk IV, having previously had a Mk II for 11 years.  I need some advice on the electric parking brake.  My drive slopes down away from the kerb and I park facing down the slope.  To leave the drive I need to start by reversing uphill. With a manual handbrake it's a doddle, but what dance do I need to do with the parking brake and the clutch and brake in order to pull away smoothly (other than putting chocks in front of the wheels).  Any advice ?  Yes, I have RTFM (which is translated from Czech, into German and then into English and is not bery helpful).

I don't have a manual but I would say the hand brake works the same. When you release the hand brake, hill hold kicks in. And at that time you start reversing.

I had forgotten it is supposed to have a hill start (my 2001 Subaru Forester had that). So it should switch from the parking brake to the hill start foot brake, which gets released as the clutch comes up.  That makes sense, I'll give that a go tomorrow.

I think you need to put your foot on the brake pedal before releasing the parking brake.

There is also AutoHold to experiment with in a similar way to the parking brake.

My Peugeot 308 has an electronic parking brake. It automatically disengages when you try to start driving.

. . . and I managed to get a very smelly clutch with a Kia that I hired with an electronic parking brake.  I guess they all have slightly different algorithms, and I wanted to make sure my pristine clutch on my car with delivery mileage on it remained pristine for as long as possible.