Re: CHAT: Away for a week

>My sympathies to Carsten; it's scary enough for an experienced driver
>on our equivalent (the Interstate system), which has a more-or-less
>observed speed limit.  But 2 hours is, like, nothing...
Sure it's nothing ... in America! I'm a newbie to driving. That 3 hours
motorway driving lesson was quite hard for me actually. Concentration-wise.

And Henrik, as a newbie I think I won't drive too fast. After all, the car
gets more and more difficult to handle the faster you drive, of course! And
with 5 people aboard inclusively luggage, the car is heavier than normal.
When I came back from the Deutsche EC-Tagung in Kiel, the friend I went back
home with went ~200 km/h the whole way from there to Kassel ... phew!
(Vorsicht! Eiliger Christ unterwegs!) He sweared all the time about the
people who drove with an average of 130-150 :-| I won't drive with him
anymore I think.

Carsten

NB, Americans: At least in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands
(maybe also in Italy and France, but I don't remember anymore) you may drive
100 km/h (about 62 mi/h) on the *normal roads* outside of towns
(Bundesstraße, "Federal Road"), except the forest of roadsigns (TM) says
something else.

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