Couple more notes about driving

I guess driving is a big part, go back and forth to the airport a couple times every day.

I think I forgot to mention one of the coolest things in Malta that I've been thinking about... at at least two points along the road from the hotel to the airport were big scoreboard style digital clocks. Nothing special there, except that they showed the seconds! It was totally encouraging you to do time trials between the two! I'd have totally been blazing down those roads on the way to the airport at 2 am, trying to beat my previous time! :)

I'm finding myself pretty well suited to driving around here. I even like the roundabouts, though I still think they'd be dangerous back home.
- What I hate are the motorcyclists. Just like back home, lots of people here enjoy being as obnoxiously loud as possible. Unlike back home, people drive their motorbikes very close to cars, eg. passing cars by going in between lanes, even at highway speeds. Sometimes I really feel like drifting just those 20 cm that would leave the idiot smeared across the highway.
- Also lame is that as bad as we are back home for slowing down to crawl across speed bumps, it's even worse here.
- For the most part it's impossible to find street parking. Luckily, you don't need it, cause you can just leave the car in the street and put the hazard lights on. This has it's ups and downs of course.
- Smart cars are far less popular here than back home. Though I did once see a smart coupe. It somehow managed to be uglier and even less practical than the regular one.
- And how back home, when there's not quite enough room for you to get into the special turn lane or something, the person in front will squeeze forward a little to let you through? You'll never see that happen here.
Ok that's all again for now.