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Okay, beat this. Once I took a cab in Budapest from the airport to downtown. I shared it with a guy from Azerbaijan. The driver asked us where we were from and then unfolded a newspaper and started reading out the results of the Euro qualifying soccer games for us while doing 40 mph. I'm not sure he really watched the road.
My father had a cousin in Greece who was a taxi driver. Once when he came here with some clients he took me and my brother for a ride with his brand new Mercedes. He played the music loud, accelerated and then took off his hands from the wheel and for minutes started a sort of dance. I was terrified and even after so many years I'm still haunted by that song.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
watch this and then complain for taxi drivers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDp2eAmMlvg
I'm going against the trend here - my favourite country is Russia. Most people judge Russia by its European part, which is where all the newly-rich gits live - especially Moscow, St- Petersburg and Samara. I, however, spent a lot of time in Omsk in Siberia and you wouldn't believe the friendliness and open-mindedness of the people there. Of course you cannot really experience that if you don't speak Russian, since most Russians are not very good at foreign languages.
My least favourite country is Israel, which is a tricky thing to say as a German, because of our history. But that's exactly why I have trouble liking Israel, especially its political caste. They use German history as a blackmailing tool. Criticize Israel for something like Mossad assasination commandos or their settlements in the palestinian areas and you won't get half the sentence out before they shout 'Holocaust' to silence you. I know a few Israelis and they are very friendly people and have no problem interacting with Germans, but their political elites are hard to live with.
I had a very similar experience in Budapest myself. A guy picked us up in a VW Phaeton and drove us downtown during busy hour. He spent the entire journey with his mobile to his ear talking to what must have been his girlfriend while he had several near misses and scared the living daylights out of us in the back. They all seem to be mental where driving is concerned though. Italy was pretty bad for that too, with scooters using pavements.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
In Kyiv, Ukraine drivers chase pedestrians off pavements trying to bypass traffic jams. That's a pretty frequent practice.Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88
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Originally Posted by Rudy Tamasz
LOL. Yeah. You will be quite happily walking down a pavement and find a car driving down with a scooter trying to overtake it and both looking at you like 'WTF are you doing on the pavement'. Dive or die situation :laugh:
That's a tough thing to get used to, especially being from Minsk, where pedestrian is king. A classic Minsk pedestrian is a hooded person with loud music in earphones and complete disregard of cars around him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knock-on
I'm proud of my Turkish, English, Irish, Spanish and German heritage :andrea:Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Maybe he recognised your missus and thought you were me :s ailor: :andrea:Quote:
Originally Posted by henners88