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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
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call in if you pass Bristol (M4/M5 Junction) Duncan
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If I'd known I was going to be so thirsty this morning I'd have drunk more beer last night.
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 12th Jul 2013 11:29 pm |
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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I will be in Cardiff for 2 days...¿is it near? lost in translation!
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| 12th Jul 2013 11:32 pm |
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DiscoDunc
Member Since: 08 May 2006
Location: Bristol
Posts: 16390
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you go right past on your way to Cardiff  Duncan
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If I'd known I was going to be so thirsty this morning I'd have drunk more beer last night.
FFRR Autobiography 4.4 SDV8 MY17
D4 HSE MY13 SOLD
FFRR 3.6 Vogue TDV8 SOLD
D4 HSE MY10 SOLD
D4 SE TECH MY15 SOLD
D4 XS MY12 SOLD
D4 HSE MY10 SOLD
D3 HSE MY06 - Re-Cycled Worldwide
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| 12th Jul 2013 11:35 pm |
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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would be on my way back ... I will be 5 days in london, 5 in edinburgh, 2 in Cardiff and 1 in Canterbury, in that order,...before to take the ferry to France
....send me a private with your phone, if you want, and I can make a call if I end up not very limited time lost in translation!
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| 12th Jul 2013 11:40 pm |
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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...but I'm a boring guy, my English is very limited ... I need the google translator continuously
 lost in translation!
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| 12th Jul 2013 11:50 pm |
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epninety
Member Since: 12 Oct 2012
Location: Hampshire
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The dangerous moment is when there's no other cars about to give you visual clues.
Years ago I pulled out of a campsite in Germany, and drove for about a mile before meeting a car coming the other way round a gentle curve...
"  He's on the wrong side of the road!"
" No, it's ME!" ... swerve...
It scared me for a moment, but it was worse for him... there were 5 other Land Rovers in convoy behind me 
Funny now, but not at the time. Never happened to me again, not even for a moment!
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| 12th Jul 2013 11:56 pm |
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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were 5 other Land Rovers in convoy behind you????
That will not soon forget
lost in translation!
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| 13th Jul 2013 12:01 am |
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bigcarpchaser
Member Since: 13 Oct 2007
Location: Camberley
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I went round a roundabout in rural France the wrong way once, towing the caravan
Won't be doing that again, the abuse from Mrs BCC was too much to take!! Welcome "Lola" 
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| 13th Jul 2013 12:02 am |
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character
Member Since: 01 Jan 2008
Location: wiltshire
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another tip.......articulated lorries and any lorry..just be careful on motorways, they have speed limiters which allows them to do a maximum speed of 56 mph but a lot will travel at 50mph to save fuel.
slip road coming on to the motorways mean that you have to give way to those already on the motorway ie "priority from the right". If you are on the motorway in lane one then you do not have to give way but if the next lane is clear it would be good road manners to move over in to lane 2, then back in to lane 1 when the lane is clear.
REMEMBER TO MATCH THE SPEED OF THE TRAFFIC ALREADY ON THE MOTORWAY WHEN COMING DOWN THE SLIP ROAD, DO NOT JUST SLOWLY COME DOWN AS YOU'LL HAVE A VERY UPSET MOTORIST BEHIND YOU 
New laws come in to force this month which means you cannot stay in lane 2 if lane 1 is clear.
As for roundabouts when coming off the motorways, picture it as a clock face, if you are going off at 3 o'clock then you go to the right hand side lane approaching the roundabout indicating right and when you get to 12 o'clock you move over to the left hand side but indicating your intensions. DO NOT GO AROUND THE ROUNDABOUT ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE IF YOU ARE GOING RIGHT AND ALWAYS CHECK YOUR LEFT HAND BLIND SPOT.
Another new law coming in to force this month IS THAT YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR INDICATORS ON ROUNDABOUTS, ie indicate your intension to go left or right when approaching and exiting a roundabout.
a couple of links to help yer
HOW NOT TO ENTER THE MOTORWAY!!
BTW good luck for London my friend, 
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| 13th Jul 2013 11:09 pm |
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GlosBoy
Member Since: 16 Oct 2009
Location: Chandlers Ford
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London will be a mare. Watch out for idiots on bikes. They don't pay any attention to the laws of the road D4 HSE - Aintree Green
D4 Orkney my13 - gone
Stornaway D4. Gone, Didn't like it at all
D3 silver manual. Loved my first LR
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| 13th Jul 2013 11:25 pm |
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ruben
D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
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! Thank Character and GlosBoy!!
I'll be careful with all that .. and as for london ... I survived Paris, Rome, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Prague, Munich, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam .. etc. .. does not have to be worse however ... my D3 will stay in Chistwick ... and I'll use the wonderful underground network has your beloved British capital to go up the middle....
many thanks for your help lost in translation!
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| 13th Jul 2013 11:30 pm |
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crews control
Member Since: 18 Mar 2007
Location: Dorset
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character wrote:New laws come in to force this month which means you cannot stay in lane 2 if lane 1 is clear.
Another new law coming in to force this month IS THAT YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR INDICATORS ON ROUNDABOUTS, ie indicate your intension to go left or right when approaching and exiting a roundabout.
Silly question, but where do I find out about these new laws and exactly when they come into introduction etc.? I've done a load of searches and can only find the press reports of what was being planned from last month.
Strikes me, these individual traffic laws are now getting so complicated we need one .gov site that allows us to research them. The Highway Code doesn't really cut it any more!
I ask because we've still got police driving instructors telling people to only bother indicating if your signal will benefit other road users!
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| 14th Jul 2013 9:09 am |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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They will have to do a whole lot of work to make these "new" laws enforcable.
First of all, the left hand (number 1) lane will require resurfacing for many thousands of miles to get rid of the grooves before anyting under 5 tonnes will be safe using it.
Secondly, about half the roundabouts in the country will need reconfigured so that there is a clear left, straight, right possibility. Any most of the others will need the arrows on the road to be changed to match reality.
Also, do these laws require drivers to go in the direction that they indicate - now that would be a real improvement! A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 14th Jul 2013 1:47 pm |
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fishinmad
Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
Location: St Ives
Posts: 877
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A simple tip i have found having a right hand drive car in Spain is always try and park facing the same way as the traffic is going.
The only time i have driven on the wrong side over the road here is when jump in the car and move off when parked facing the flow of traffic.
Enjoy Lonon, i used to live in Chiswick nice place Club Narpy Torch
“No return to boom and bust†Gordon Brown when chancellor
He has been proved right, now there is only bust!
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| 14th Jul 2013 2:55 pm |
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Popelka
Member Since: 31 May 2008
Location: Praha (Prague)
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crews control wrote:I ask because we've still got police driving instructors telling people to only bother indicating if your signal will benefit other road users!
this is one that has puzzled me when I read threads on advance driving and even watching youtube where police advance drivers giving same advise.
I read somewhere that in the advance driving test that over use of the indicators is a fail point
I understand that if there are no other road users that you are indicating to no one; but to me that means I have to think about whether its needed or not; while at the moment I indicate every time out of instinct/training and is less to think about giving me more time to observe/ risk assessment.
so anybody who teaches or tests drivers for advance pass, can you give us the reasons for this; I would appreciate it greatly
epninety wrote:Years ago I pulled out of a campsite in Germany, and drove for about a mile before meeting a car coming the other way round a gentle curve...
" He's on the wrong side of the road!"
been there, got the T-shirt, only I was in USA and friends we had made were in the back seat thinking what on earth I was doing; after I expressed surprise and moved to correct side, did they say; they thought I was joking.
its surprising how it can catch us out, I usually find this happens approx 2 weeks after returning from vacation where the other side is driven  Experience is a difficult teacher, because she gives the test first and then the lesson afterwards!!!!
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