Quote Originally Posted by Pleater View Post
the road to the west of Ringwood is just one roundabout after another - we use the Wessex way which is to the south of it and often slower, but the roundabouts are manic even for a local.

I have just got the MoT test done on my campervan - 21.5ft long 6.5ft wide and 7ft tall not counting the chimney, with 6 wheels - people carriers with dark tinted windows reverse out of the way for me.
I travelled East to get the test done and there are not only roundabouts but joined together roundabouts going that way - I think that this must have been some sort of experimental area for novel traffic management - it was the first place in England to have traffic lights, I am told

Anne the Pleater
I was in South Wales last year and experienced chains of roundabouts near the Severn River. The driver was Welsh (thank gawd) and did it all from memory. They happened so fast that l doubt I could follow a GPS plot through them. Here in Canada we can drive many roads for hours without having to make a decision. I also drive with a manual transmission day-to-day but I shift subconsciously after a half century and the reversed gear shift throws me as well.

Save our UK cousins some grief. Save yourselves. Leave the driving to British Rail, Scots Rail and tour operators. You can't hear the rude words being directed at you as you are driving away from them.