Driving (part 1)

I like to think that I’m a pretty good driver. For example, I’ve never gotten a speeding ticket in the US.

Here things are a bit different.

For one thing, tickets are all by camera, not cops. For another, they are very strict about speed limits.

For example, we were in France a couple of weeks ago. Apparently I was speeding because we just got a ticket in the mail. The ticket says I was driving 96kph in a 90kph zone. Translation: I was driving 3.7 miles per hour over the speed limit. Fee: 45 euros.

I’m a pretty conservative driver when I’m on unknown roads, so I don’t think I was passing anyone at the time. I just go with the flow of traffic. That means the government likely sent tickets to a lot of people who were driving at the same time.

I also got a ticket for driving on a road that was closed in the Netherlands. Again, just by camera, no police officers. More about that in another post.