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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
You get used to it pretty quick. I drove our van all around Italy (and most of Western Europe) in '99 - had to do a 3pt turn taking a regular corner on the main road driving to the Amalphi Coast at one point because the road was so narrow. The scariest is the first time someone overtakes you when there is someone coming the other way so you and the oncoming car both swing to the edge and the passing car is split across both lanes - terrifying. That and the moped riders...
The other fun drive is the Arc de Triomphe - we tried to avoid it but got funnelled in and that was a game of Frogger I'd like to forget.
I was the same re-the Arc. Was given instructions from the agent about how to get onto the motorway. Pre-GPS days so missed a turn and ended up on the Champs.
Got off the motorway near Naples later on the trip. Certainly an eye opener
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@canefan said in Happiness Scale:
Got off the motorway near Naples later on the trip. Certainly an eye opener
one of my proudest driving achievements was driving to find the leaning tower of pisa with only a very high level lonely planet map, navigating crazy italian drivers. I got us there with no dings - so that's a win!
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
Amalphi Coast at one point because the road was so narrow.
you drove that road? Are you fucking nuts? I took the bus, and wanted to hire every driver and bring them back to Aus, incredible skill.
By the end of the week i was fine, and even driving back in to Florence was no problem. But trying to navigate, learn to do things the "opposite" way, and getting honked at for being a stupid tourist was fucked.
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
Amalphi Coast at one point because the road was so narrow.
you drove that road? Are you fucking nuts? I took the bus, and wanted to hire every driver and bring them back to Aus, incredible skill.
By the end of the week i was fine, and even driving back in to Florence was no problem. But trying to navigate, learn to do things the "opposite" way, and getting honked at for being a stupid tourist was fucked.
Young and dumb man! Now I'm old and dumb, but that's another story.
We did about 12,000kms over 4 months - I did all the driving and my mate was chief paper map navigator. No chance I could have done both.
We bought the van just out of Amsterdam at some dealers nearly-scrapyard (I still remember turning out of the lot onto the wrong side of the luckily empty road) and it was our transport and home for the whole time - it saw some damn good times and we eventually drove ourselves to Prague airport and left it there to fly to London.
Happiness!
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@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
@voodoo said in Happiness Scale:
Amalphi Coast at one point because the road was so narrow.
you drove that road? Are you fucking nuts? I took the bus, and wanted to hire every driver and bring them back to Aus, incredible skill.
By the end of the week i was fine, and even driving back in to Florence was no problem. But trying to navigate, learn to do things the "opposite" way, and getting honked at for being a stupid tourist was fucked.
Young and dumb man! Now I'm old and dumb, but that's another story.
We did about 12,000kms over 4 months - I did all the driving and my mate was chief paper map navigator. No chance I could have done both.
We bought the van just out of Amsterdam at some dealers nearly-scrapyard (I still remember turning out of the lot onto the wrong side of the luckily empty road) and it was our transport and home for the whole time - it saw some damn good times and we eventually drove ourselves to Prague airport and left it there to fly to London.
Happiness!
I did 10,000 kms in a Peugeot in 2009 (France, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium), and another 5000 odd in 2014 (France, Italy).
I reckon the absolute worst was Granada in Spain. Italians were mild by comparison - but I'll admit that I didn't do the Amalfi coast! Fuck that.
I've driven the roads around the Cinque terre though - that was a fucking mission in a mid sized SUZ, and there was a parking building at Portofino which still gives me the shits when I think about it.
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