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Well, it's also wonderful they speak Italian!
by julenx 4y ago
Well, it's also wonderful they speak Italian!
- jylam 4y agoBut they drive Italian too. Ho well.
- _nalply 4y agoDrive confidently but attentively and you fit in beautifully. Source: tried it myself.
- jupp0r 4y agoCan't confirm. Drive unsafely like the worst drivers in LA and you'll fit right in but still be miserable.
- _nalply 4y agoHah. Probably practice is needed, but your holidays are too short for that.
- jupp0r 4y agoThere's objective aspects of safe driving like leaving enough distance between vehicles (depending on speed) that are wildly ignored. You might get used to that in practice but that doesn't make it safer.
- _nalply 4y agoI was thinking about chaotic Italian road crossings. Or, to give another example, l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris. People tend to communicate with their cars where they want to drive and I understand that foreigners find this aggressive. I was not thinking about excessive speeds or tailgating. In Southern Italy, when you are stuck in a traffic jam in the city, you just drive nearer to other cars, and this is only mildly dangerous because you don't have high speeds. If you don't drive tight enough, you just can't proceed because some other car will take your place. This is not tailgating or driving recklessly.
- jupp0r 4y agoI was more thinking about me being tailgated at 2 ft distance and then overtaken on an extremely narrow mountain road near Arco. People were honking while doing this so people in the oncoming lane around the bend could start breaking (I was told by a local). Happened all the time in the cumulative month I spent there, never got used to it. Lots of crosses remembering dead drivers on the side of the roads too.
- beebeepka 4y agoSpanish and Italian sound great to me, even though I don't speak them. They sound, well, human. Can't say the same about English or German