Soooo...this is a Bini video the wife and I made last weekend.
https://youtu.be/GYNCm6Gzylc
We had fun driving her Cooper S around Northamptonshire and Leicestershire. It's kind of long but it gives you a good idea of the country roads we have around here.
Stunningly beautiful!! I like how the yellow hits before the green warning you that you are about to go.
I imagine the yellow warns of the red coming too?
I wondered what you were sitting there for at the one light then realized there was not enough room for 2 way traffic. Although a lot of places looked that way in towns.
I loved the video will watch a few more times, I love stuff like this.
Traffic lights are the same here - change from green, yellow, red, yellow, green - really useful if you're working on your drag strip reaction times or if your daily driver has a start/stop engine shut-off feature. 77.gif
I like the video. Thanks for sharing it. Brought back great memories of driving on the B roads in that area.
Thanks for watching, Gents! I had to coach the wife on how to "start the engine and give it some revs" for dramatic effect-haha.
Coming over here made me realize why European cars handle better than American cars (for the most part)--because they have to! The roads here are narrow, very curvy, and the speed limit on most of them is 60 MPH when you aren't going through a village. It took several months to get comfortable driving here. A lot of the younger people that come over here with only a couple of years driving experience usually learn their limitations pretty quick.
Jim, you're right, there are many times when driving through a village you have to wait for oncoming traffic because there isn't enough space.
I'd like to think this place has made me a better driver--maybe just a bit crazier. I do think it has definitely made me a better motorcycle rider.