I do love China, the only time I sometimes dont like it is when I am on the road or waiting in a que at a supermarket or restaurant.
Amen, to that!!
I DO love China..........the people, the culture.............but the driving?? Oi Gevalt!!!..........like they learned to drive in New Delhi or even Milan, god forbid!!!
In this sleepy little hamlet of Lin'an.........well, for example, I was walking down a local street yesterday, no-one about (it's a holiday weekend FGS!!!).........and a taxi comes bowling down the road - and, I mean, smokin' !!!!)..........honking his horn like it was Hogmanay..............
The road was deserted!
Empty!
No-one around! Anyone with any sanity left was sleeping!
Yet, here's this one Jackass, with his hand on the horn!!
Get a freakin' life, already!!!
Grow up!
The traffic here scares me silly.
Seriously.
Drive in China?
?
Only if you have no medical coverage and a death wish!
Example: my first foray to China (m'kay, I lived in the Middle East for 11 yrs, so, one does become au fait with 'seat belts' or lack of.........hoho....."so, I no use seatbilts, mean I can 'fford good plastic surgery for my son!! haha!!" mentality).
On my drive from Hangzhou airport to the city, I tried, on several lurching occasions, to locate the seatbelt attachment for the rear seat - only to be met with a handful of grime and other unmentionables............I did NOT feel safe!........not for a single moment!
I was scared.
Seriously.
Driving in China - be afraid.
Taking cab in China - be even more afraid.
They all learned in India.........trust me. I'd feel safer in an autorickshaw!
Never mind teaching them to speaka-de-English..........how about someone teaching them the basics of road etiquette???
.........not to mention electric scooters!!
(and the expats who drive them!!.........yup, Paddyfields, I'm talkin' 'bout YOU!! LOL!!)
Peace...........stay off the roads!