Episode 16 Driving in France
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2014
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Is it safe for visitors to rent a car and drive in France? In episode 16 of the Join Us in France Travel Podcast we discuss driving in France and help you decide if you're ready to take on French roads and French drivers. We give you tips on what to look out for, explain a few things that might surprise you when driving in France, and crush some preconceived ideas. We also share three graphics that will help you make sense of French road signs. It's easy once you have some information!
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:08.0 | join us in France episode 16. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello I'm Annie and today I'm happy to introduce David |
| 0:16.0 | Sergeant, my husband, who is sitting in for release. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello? Well unless this is your first time listening to the show, and in that case, welcome to you? |
| 0:27.5 | You're probably wondering, why is her husband on today? |
| 0:31.2 | It's pretty simple, and don't worry, Elise is just fine. This switch is all about the topic |
| 0:36.4 | we're discussing today, driving in France. David has a lot to say about that. He's had to |
| 0:42.1 | get used to driving in France pretty recently and he even had to take the French driver's license. |
| 0:48.0 | So his perspective is different from mine or Elisis because Elisis has been driving in France so long. |
| 0:52.8 | She probably doesn't even remember what it's like to drive in America. |
| 0:55.7 | I don't know if she ever drives in America as a matter of fact. |
| 0:57.6 | Anyway, so I learned to drive in France myself myself I even taught driving in France for a while |
| 1:05.4 | technically I'm still you know legal to teach driving although I haven't done it in |
| 1:09.8 | decades and I'm not going to I don't remember very much about it and David he has a |
| 1:18.8 | he's a bit of a stickler for rules he likes to notice rules he likes to you know he sees all the |
| 1:25.3 | crazy things that French people do and I have to admit we do a fair amount of that |
| 1:29.5 | so I let him tell you all about that. |
| 1:33.0 | But today for the short order of business, |
| 1:36.0 | I want to encourage you again to share the episodes of the show |
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| 1:46.1 | share buttons at the bottom of each post on the website so like for instance if you wanted to share today's post you would go to join us in |
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