An American Driving in Brittany
To drive here you need to be a confident and competent driver. And it helps to like to drive. The French are fortunately excellent drivers. They always signal, they yield, they stay on the right and they’re very patient. If this were say...Italy, I would be crushed like a bug by now. You drive on the right. The roads are excellent and well marked. BUT in the countryside it is different, very different. So in these middle ages villages with roads made for pedestrians and horses, the roads are sometimes reeealy narrow… one lane. Especially when our sadistic GPS lady takes us on some impossible road going no where, or some impossibly narrow cobblestone alley. We think that she is thinking “oh those American tourist I’ll fix them!” We often pray we don’t meet a car coming the other way. Someone is going to have to back up. And, it happens. But people are patient and kind. So we curse her under our breath. WHAT was she thinking? But we don’t want to anger her… One w...
