Well, having spent the last couple of weeks driving in France, perhaps our UK drivers aren't that bad. Yes, I know you can encounter idiots on any road in any country, but France seems to have more of them. They seem particularly prone to impatience.
Reminder: Top Gear tonight at 8pm 896But doesn't produce anything like the power or torque of the 407 I'm sure. And doesn't do 0-60 in 9.5 seconds I'm sure. The same engine in the Focus...
One incident did alter the colour of my pants. I was driving my motor caravan, not the most manouverable of vehicles, and had just enetered a roundabout when two kids on motorbikes also joined from the exit on my left. I was tootling along in the outside lane (furthest from the centre) since I was not sure which exit I needed, but in fact I was going straight on.. The motorcyclists overtook me on the roundabout before cutting across my bows to take the exit before the one I wanted, missing me by centimetres. Neither of them gave any signeals except for the finger after they had completed the manoeuvre. The safe thing to do of course, would have been to fall in behind me until it was clear what my intentions were.
They obviously had no appreciation that a foreign driver night not know which exit he needed on an unfamiliar road.
I read, a day or two later, a newspaper article that explained how to position onself on a roundabout in France. This said that it is always OK to use the outside lane, irrespective of thich exit you intend to take. If going left or straight on it is also possible to use the inside lane, but this is not obligatory.
Martin
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