2015 Road Trip

[Sailor]

I've often been told that driving/ riding in Italy is a nightmare.

It can be, certainly. I think the trick is to recognise that their local rules aren't the same as ours. I used to react to Belgian nonsense - and had a laugh or two on the way. This time, I just hung back and watched.

keep the posts coming

I think I've failed to set up my new laptop properly. Either that or photobucket has become photophucket.
I'll fix it all when we get home and post lots of things to bore people a bit more.

For now, suffice to say that we've seen lovely stuff in palazzos, stirring stuff in the Dolomites, and pretty stuff in SE Deutschland. We ran up the 2000th mile today, not long before having a (very) brief look at the Czech Republic.

[mercutio]

Driving in Italy is fine you just have to suspend your britishness they have a completely different outlook a car may be beautiful but its a car and if it gets bumped its more about the arguement than the bump Remembering when i was there everyone on the Autostrada was either a race driver or a california cruiser i was stuck behind two old guys on the motorway in 2 rather old fiat 500's racing each other if you really can call 50mph max racing
With trucks might is right, If your indicating on the Autostrada to change lane and someone flashes you its not to let you out its to tell you they aint slowing down and your to stay put.
Tailgating is a way of life on the autostrada it must save petrol i was once in a train of cars at 140mph with what seemed like only inches between each car as we flew past a cop car.
Oh yeah cops not really bothered about speed but if you have an accident and you were speeding watch out they will throw the whole library at you.

[Donald]

On my third day back in Italy and now fully embracing the driving style after a frustrating first day exactly as you say Merc, leave British driving in Britain.

Lanes are most definitely optional and in this heat so is pretty much everything else. Over here the equivalent to the Bimmer wanker is the VW. We're rolling about in a Polo this time so driving like a rhubarb is expected

[Sailor]

We finally got back on Sunday evening. The internet was down, compounding the problems I'd been having over the past couple of weeks. I bought a new router, cleaned up the mess photobucket had made reorganising my files, and have started a replacement thread:-
http://www.ludegeneration.co.uk/general ... 16264.html