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I'd learned to handle with roundabouts while making my license 20 years ago. The town Hannover, where I lived was the German town with the most big roundabouts.
Strange, but roundabouts were getting more and more popular in Germany, often on crossing on country-roads, to slow down the traffic and avoid accidents - but these big roundabouts of Hannover were all built back to crossings with traffic lights or roundabouts with traffic lights.
"The" roundabout-country is Great Britain. Between the big ones as linked above and real tiny one (the smallest middle, I'd seen, had a diameter of 1 meter), you have a plenty of them.
This is really hard for people, coming from the European continent, at first to learn to drive on the left side and then these many roundabouts.
When we go on vacations to Scotland, we usually take the ferry from Ijmuiden/NL to Newcastle. The 5 roundabouts there, to reach the main road up to North, are quite ugly (the first one, between terminal, shopping mall and pool-park is just for training). Outside the town it's going better.
Some tourists don't rech more than the first roundabouts. My wife work in the claim-department of a car-insurance. Sometimes she had accident-reports from GB, where the people have crashed their car just at the first British roundabout after the ferry-terminal.
So when me an my friends have bought one K 70 and wrecked two more at the Skoda-dealer nearby Kingston-upon-Hull, he also offered us some doors from a German K 70, he had wrecked a long time ago. It was also smashed in a roundabout after less than 5 kilometers on British ground.
Strange, but roundabouts were getting more and more popular in Germany, often on crossing on country-roads, to slow down the traffic and avoid accidents - but these big roundabouts of Hannover were all built back to crossings with traffic lights or roundabouts with traffic lights.
"The" roundabout-country is Great Britain. Between the big ones as linked above and real tiny one (the smallest middle, I'd seen, had a diameter of 1 meter), you have a plenty of them.
This is really hard for people, coming from the European continent, at first to learn to drive on the left side and then these many roundabouts.
When we go on vacations to Scotland, we usually take the ferry from Ijmuiden/NL to Newcastle. The 5 roundabouts there, to reach the main road up to North, are quite ugly (the first one, between terminal, shopping mall and pool-park is just for training). Outside the town it's going better.
Some tourists don't rech more than the first roundabouts. My wife work in the claim-department of a car-insurance. Sometimes she had accident-reports from GB, where the people have crashed their car just at the first British roundabout after the ferry-terminal.
So when me an my friends have bought one K 70 and wrecked two more at the Skoda-dealer nearby Kingston-upon-Hull, he also offered us some doors from a German K 70, he had wrecked a long time ago. It was also smashed in a roundabout after less than 5 kilometers on British ground.