Driving in Germany
This was our first experience driving in Germany and we were a bit overwhelmed. First of all, we we book our car rental, we booked an economy car. Just like we would here. Usually that’d get us a four door, enough luggage space, bla bla. Well, if you rent a car in Germany, make sure that you have a big enough engine to feel comfortable going with the flow of traffic.
[thumb:1571:l][thumb:1570:l] Our car was a little four door Opel Corsa. Cute little car but it’s only got a 1.2 cc engine. SMALL! Driving around the city, it was great. Parking was awesome but take it to the Autobahn or uphill, man, you’re in for a treat but thank goodness we didn’t experience a lot of the above.
Here’s our mistake before going to Germany. We didn’t really learn enough German and to familiarize ourselves with the road signs. The basics signs are quite easy to follow but there are signs that just has words on them and you just have to guess it and hope you’re right. Also, we weren’t sure if there’s a German version of a 4-way stop since there were many 3 or 4 cross-sections where we weren’t sure who needed to go first.
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