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[bill cobbett]

(Try this one CBBB)...

This one is of a lady driver, driving just the other side of Polis...

That worked fine. Anyone we know?

Believe it's someone with an impeccable driving history mate.

[Oracle]

I've got that disconcerting feeling that I am being followed ...

[vaughanwilliams]

The only thing that irritates me on Cyprus roads is the few fools that indicate right on a roundabout!

Is that not correct if you are exiting the roundabout at the third exit?

I fvollowed someone yesterday who went the wrong way round a roundabout, to their credit, it was a quicker option......

Nope it is not correct.

Was it a woman?

Sorry. I was taught that when approaching a roundabout, if taking first exit, keep to nearside (left) and indicate left. If going over roundabout to 2nd exit, keep to left lane and indicate left as you pass 1st exit. If taking 3rd or 4th exit, get in right hand lane and indicate right. Keep tight into roundabout and as you pass the exit BEFORE the one you want to leave by, indicate left and move to left, before exiting.

What really cheeses me off is when I stop at a Zebra crossing on a dual carriagway, having made the old "slowing down or stopping" hand signal, and some idiot whizzes past me in the "fast" lane. I don't stop at Zebra crossings anymore if I have someone in my mirror as I am inviting the pedestrian to be run over.

[Gasman]

Safer to only stop at traffic lights that have only just turned red if you are the only car approaching them. Or sure the car behind won't hit you up the arse because they assume that your car, his car, and probably one or two behind him, will be carrying on!

There is apparently a hard and fast rule regarding how to tell who the worst Cypriot drivers are. To do with the amount of religious paraphernalia they have dangling from rear view mirror and dotted around the dash - the more icons, the worse the driver.

So is there a Cypriot Highway Code Book? I'd like to see what it says about roundabouts.

[Gasman]

This one made me smile on account of the huge crowd gathering close round the accident.

When I lived in Makarios Avenue in Limassol, there were bad accidents at the junctions every single week. My mate George the policeman told me that to be a 'real' Cypriot, you not only close in and gawp at the accident victims, hardly giving them room to breathe, but you should give them a little nudge with your toe to make sure they are really dead. Then take photos of them with your mobile phone!

[CBBB]

How would you suggest you navigate round this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roun ... mpstead%29

[vaughanwilliams]

How would you suggest you navigate round this one?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roun ... mpstead%29

Without Cypriots.

[Gasman]

I used to work in Bracknell. They called it 'doughnut city' in those days - no traffic lights at all - rabts everywhere.

Then, after a few years, they put traffic lights on all the roundabouts!

[vaughanwilliams]

I used to work in Bracknell. They called it 'doughnut city' in those days - no traffic lights at all - rabts everywhere.

Then, after a few years, they put traffic lights on all the roundabouts!

Me too. At the Met Office.

[Gasman]

Met Office? Did you used to go to The Boot for lunch? Of course Met Office isn't there now - moved to Exeter (followed me to the west country lol!)

And gawd wasn't that an AWFUL building? And they used to feature it on postcards of the area!

I've worked in just about every high tech company there was in Silicon Valley there up until I moved down West in the early 90s.