Monday, September 24, 2007

Terrible Traffic

There is a saying that policemen are like taxis. When you don't need one there are thousands, and when you do....
The traffic in Italy seems to be a bit like that too. When frankly it doesn't really matter whether you make it on time or not to a place, the traffic is free flowing and I can happily zoom up and down the autostrade... but when I actually need to be in a place on time, the traffic snarls up and becomes nightmareish.
Such was the case today.
Florence to Trieste on Wednesday took me just about 4 hours. (Although I am hoping that the Autovelux machines that snagged Wally's car zipping along the A1 in excess of the speed limit were not functioning so well on the day that I drove.)
Trieste to Florence today - over 7 hours. Making me 2 hours late for a meeting. Nightmare.

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