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To be fair French deep-country roundabouts are the work of the devil. Me and my SO did a cross-European car-journey a few years ago and we managed to get all th
by paganel 4y ago
To be fair French deep-country roundabouts are the work of the devil. Me and my SO did a cross-European car-journey a few years ago and we managed to get all the way from Bucharest to France just fine without using any GPS.
And then we got into the French roundabouts. I gave up close to Orleans. We wanted to get off the highway and use a smaller road, for sightseeing, it's only that I literally re-created this infamous scene [1] with the only difference that there were 3 or 4 roundabouts in quick succession involved, not a big one. I almost had tears of frustration, I'm not exaggerating, but thanks to my SO who started co-piloting me with "take the second exit in the next roundabout" and stuff like that we managed to get out of it all. After a few days driving through France I think I managed to get the hang of those roundabouts without using GPS, but it wasn't easy.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc
- matwood 4y agoHaha...exactly! Another fun one from a different trip. We were in a French town that had an underground parking garage. We enter the garage, it's packed with cars and we think 'great, we'll be here a few days and won't need the car'. A few days later is a Sunday and we head over to the garage to leave and...the whole garage is sealed up like a bomb shelter. It's closed on Sundays. I had never seen this in a US garage b/c normally if they closed at all they would just open the gates. After walking around a bit, I was able to translate enough French to find a call button. 20 minutes later I managed to get an attendant to come let me out. The garage looked like something from a zombie movie - pitch black dark and 1 or 2 cars left. I always check the times on parking garages now.