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Previously on "Penalty Through Post For Driving In Middle Of Road"
I like both. Portuguese food is not really very refined, but get some fresh fish in the villages north of Lisbon and it's good. Just avoid Cascais; used to be very nice, now full of Brits and Russians on golf-chav holidays.
Porto is far more civilised than Lisbon. Will be retiring there.
I've been to both. Madrid's Ok. Lisbon can be a right tulipehole. And the food there is terrible.
HTH
I like both. Portuguese food is not really very refined, but get some fresh fish in the villages north of Lisbon and it's good. Just avoid Cascais; used to be very nice, now full of Brits and Russians on golf-chav holidays.
There are clearly a lot of stupid people on this forum
1. First of all there's an arrow telling you where you should go.
2. Then there's a large polygon with stripy lines telling you were you shouldn't go.
3. And finally there's a camera sign
Fines from that camera are a deserving tax on the stupid.
Last edited by sasguru; 8 September 2011, 13:34.
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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It is extremely counterinuitive and I can see how it could mislead. Having seen it I am forewarned for the unlikely event in which I have to drive in the tuliphole that is our Crapital City.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It is extremely counterinuitive and I can see how it could mislead. Having seen it I am forewarned for the unlikely event in which I have to drive in the tuliphole that is our Crapital City.
You need a HumanBrain. Try and get one from the 70s, they have better firmware.
My brain works ok, it's the only thing stopping me following my twatnav through no entry signs or along the railway tracks.
The problem I'm complaining about is that unless there are regular updates the twatnav is useless as it doesn't cope well with one way systems or pedestrianised zones.
So I'm usually forced to drive like a rat in a maze around unfamiliar centres looking for an alternative way, hoping that the twatnav will cotton onto one for me.
There are quite a few of these in London and yes I think they are deliberately confusing (revenue raising) . The scary bit is as you get close to the black bollard things you can see copious shades of paint on them . If you do not line up EXACTLY between the things you are very likely to scrape part of your car and add to the paintwork.
Is it not dumb, to blindly follow where satnav takes you, and not see the road signs around.
There's a difference between "blindly following" and "trying to concentrate on the map, the other traffic, pedestrians and ensuring you don't miss a road sign in an unfamiliar surrounding.
Are there many of that sort of crud in that there London?
Where I've live/lived and drive they tend to put a large bush with flowers in the middle or some raised structure as ambulances can manage to fit through the sides - I've seen it though most of them avoid those roads.
Fire engines can't so they tend to avoid those roads. Alternatively they will put a locked gate in the middle if it's the only access and fire engines need to use them.
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