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Good day to you all,
I have just returned from a trip to Lisbon airport and back.
This is a round trip of about 300 kms and 80 of these are on a non motorway road.
I experienced 3 very near misses, one of which could have been fatal (the truck involved was Spanish...) on this trip.
There was only one crash (non fatal.)
The general standard of driving in this beautiful country is truly, truly DREADFUL
Everyone tail gates to within a metre or two... the gap you leave between you and the car in front for saftey is a "window of opportunity" to the locals and no one minds making some one else brake hard as long as they get out into the road and the indicators might as well have not been fitted to cars here.
My advice is to be very, very defensive when driving around here...
JJ
I have just returned from a trip to Lisbon airport and back.
This is a round trip of about 300 kms and 80 of these are on a non motorway road.
I experienced 3 very near misses, one of which could have been fatal (the truck involved was Spanish...) on this trip.
There was only one crash (non fatal.)
The general standard of driving in this beautiful country is truly, truly DREADFUL
Everyone tail gates to within a metre or two... the gap you leave between you and the car in front for saftey is a "window of opportunity" to the locals and no one minds making some one else brake hard as long as they get out into the road and the indicators might as well have not been fitted to cars here.
My advice is to be very, very defensive when driving around here...
JJ