I didn't teach today, so I decided to take a short trip for a couple of days over the weekend. There are some very quaint little towns I have tried to see the last two years, close by, but are so hard to get to because there is no direct train service to them. So, I decided to go to Wurzburg, wash my clothes, and rent a car! It is really a tiny little thing, an Opel Corsa. Never heard of it, right. Me neither. But it is not a bad little car. But then I got on the Autobahn, Germany's freeway system. And everything you have heard about it is right. They do drive 100 miles per hour! Some even faster. Kind of scary and I am not a slowpoke on the freeways. Just be very careful when you pull out into that left lane! I let my speed creep up to 90 just to see. But I had people coming up behind me wanting to pass. Then, the trucks are traveling sometimes as slow as half that speed in the right lane. Well, anyway, I made it here.
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| European cars have mostly standard transmissions. |
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| No, really, it just means "exit." |
1 comment:
That is AMAZING!!!! My kind of freeway! Good thing you weren't on the opposite side of the road/car as well...that'd be really scary!
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