On 5/8/09, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > John Coyle wrote: > > > Yes but, in 1978 or thereabouts I crossed the road from the Avenue des > > Champs-Elysees to the Arc de Triomphe through those eight lanes (with a > > local, I hasten to add) and nobody even tooted... I shudder to think of > it > > nowadays! > > > > By 1994, I used the tunnels under the roundabout ... I wouldn't have even > thought about wading through that traffic, with or without a local. :-) > > Far worse than Paris, though, were the city kids on scooters along the Cote > d'Azur during vacation season.
In 84 or 85 Dad drove us from Heidelberg to Paris. He still claims the French are second only to the Italians when it comes to crazy driving technique. Once he figured out how to drive like the locals, we got around pretty easy. Dad credits that to the 70-something Mercury Marquis that was fully twice the size and weight of the typical 2CV. New horror spoof - "An American Sedan in Paris". -- Scott Loveless Cigarette-free since December 14th, 2008 http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
