martine wrote:So I'm near Bordeaux as I write this with the family on a 2 week hols. Quite agree with Triquet about closeness on motorways - they nearly all do it both before and after the overtake which is a little disconcerting and outright dangerous.
Still confused about the priority to the right rules...the French seem to have got themselves in a bit of a pickle with:
- 'diamond' signs (you're on a priority route)
- cancelled 'diamond' signs (no longer on a priority route)
- 'Cedez Le Passage' sign (give way)
- 'Priorité à droite' sign (priority to the right)
- the Cross road sign (which isn't necessarily a cross-roads) which also means priority to the right
- "Vous n'avez pas la priorité" sign (you don't have priority)
All very confusing.
I was rarely confused in France, in fact finding it, in the main, easier than the UK.
You just have to do the AD stuff in a somewhat relaxed way, whilst keeping your wits about you and you'll have no problem.
My only potential conflict situation was my misinterpretation of a headlamp flash on a rural road, in France it means "I'm coming through", not as in the UK, where it often means "You go through". I had an escape route, luckily.