Driving in France is pretty straightforward
Drive as fast as you can get away with at all times
Speed limits basically indicate the minimum speed you should be driving,not maximum
Tailgating ,tooting,flashing and even waving your hands around is common place
Why? Because that's all it is,physical confrontation is very rare here
I've heard fellow brits say it's a very pleasant experience driving in France
And in the main,with a British car it will be
This is all to do with regional number plates
People know just by your number plate whether your local or not
And if your not,will cut you some slack,as you don't know the roads
French people in general are wary of foreign plates
Knowing cultures are different and the possibility of confrontation is always there
The amount of times I've gone to flash someone to go and they just sit there
Its because it's just not done here
Some of you may have noticed they don't stop at zebra crossings either
And at a stop sign you MUST stop,even at 3 o'clock in the morning with no one insight
As I found out with the local gendarmerie
Regional number plates is definitely the key to how people behave down here[/QUOTE
Don't mind driving in France, when I was doing continental work never had a problem. Maybe it was that I was in an articulated lorry. Some of the best rest stops for lorry drivers as well, unlike here, just dumps and expensive.
Straight, half empty autoroutes. Lovely.
Due to all the tight-arsed locals driving on the adjacent non-toll minor roads.
