Comments on: Driving lessons – for France http://www.newfreebooters.com/driving-lessons-for-france boats, events, people & equipment - through the eyes of Mike K-H Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.newfreebooters.com/driving-lessons-for-france/comment-page-1#comment-53 admin Sun, 04 May 2008 10:00:11 +0000 http://www.newfreebooters.com/?p=19#comment-53 Actually, it's usually the people behind who get upset - they can see the back view of a person (usually a woman, and this is still rather a chauvinist country) permanently facing sideways, never looking ahead. George, being a professional writer of humorous books, always embroiders information I feed him. Phyll is far more likely to be reading a plant catalogue than Paris Soir... Actually, it’s usually the people behind who get upset – they can see the back view of a person (usually a woman, and this is still rather a chauvinist country) permanently facing sideways, never looking ahead.

George, being a professional writer of humorous books, always embroiders information I feed him. Phyll is far more likely to be reading a plant catalogue than Paris Soir…

]]> By: Dave McMahon http://www.newfreebooters.com/driving-lessons-for-france/comment-page-1#comment-51 Dave McMahon Sun, 04 May 2008 01:27:22 +0000 http://www.newfreebooters.com/?p=19#comment-51 "Mike loves approaching an oncoming police car with his hands on the bottom of the steering wheel – and his wife Phyllis at his side, casually reading a copy of Paris Soir in what les flics (and other motorists) assume is the driving seat…" I took my RHD Austin Maxi over to Germany during my year abroad while studying German/History at university. There were several US students there (from Green Bay, Wisconsin) who I was pals with. They thought it was great fun to freak out German road users by sitting in the front passenger seat with their feet on the dashboard... I don't think we actually caused any accidents, but it made a few eyes boggle! “Mike loves approaching an oncoming police car with his hands on the bottom of the steering wheel – and his wife Phyllis at his side, casually reading a copy of Paris Soir in what les flics (and other motorists) assume is the driving seat…”

I took my RHD Austin Maxi over to Germany during my year abroad while studying German/History at university. There were several US students there (from Green Bay, Wisconsin) who I was pals with. They thought it was great fun to freak out German road users by sitting in the front passenger seat with their feet on the dashboard…

I don’t think we actually caused any accidents, but it made a few eyes boggle!

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