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I�d too would have to guess that the couple going the wrong way in a roundabout were likely vacationing Brits.

Back in the 80�s, I had to make numerous business trips to Swindon England. Driving on the left took some time to get comfortable with. But there is one big intersection that was always a harrowing experience to get through. It is affectionately known by the locals as the �Magic Roundabout�. It�s one big roundabout interconnected with four smaller roundabouts. I used to dread having to go through it. Here�s an aerial shot of it:

http://edv100.home.comcast.net/~edv1...roundabout.jpg

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Originally Posted by uujudy (Post 181622)

Oh Beady, that happened to us at the Virginia Trace Buena Vista gate. Mr. Judy was the one driving and I was the one shouting "Nocartspastthispoint! Nocartspastthispoint! Nocartspastthispoint!"
He likes me to read the signs to him. :laugh: )

:1rotfl: I can just picture it.

Wow, Fumar that must be some camera at the bar...I was 3 villages away from Glenview.:icon_wink::icon_wink:

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Originally Posted by EdVinMass (Post 181633)

If you think 'The Magic Roundabout' is bad, imagine you have just arrived in England, having landed at Heathrow airport. You pick up your rental car, and attempt to leave the airport. This is where the fun begins, there are 2 of these damned roundabouts for you to find your way around. This is the reason we always enter & leave the airport by the 'back way'

OK, so these stories are quite funny and tragic at the same time. :doh:

I'm not going to make any promises, but my husband and I will be in town on a lifestyle preview visit Feb. 2-8 and we will try our darndest to obey all the traffic rules and not pull off any faux pas.

We've already watched the roundabout video somebody posted on TOTV so we should be good in that area. As far as speeding goes, I'm not a grandma yet, but I sure drive like one (well a slow one anyway) ;)

Looking forward to visiting soon. :thumbup:

I don't think you will have to worry to much. It is amazing how firendly people are here. Every time I drive my golf cart around one of the roundabouts everyone honks and waves.

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Originally Posted by under55 (Post 182028)

I don't think you will have to worry to much. It is amazing how firendly people are here. Every time I drive my golf cart around one of the roundabouts everyone honks and waves.

55, that must have been you we saw coming out of the Caroline gate this afternoon and heading into the roundabout and proceeding north on Morse. Whoever we saw doing that, it definitely was not a street legal cart.

Another crazy thing I saw today was a fire engine with lights and sirens going coming up on a golf cart waiting to turn left from Bonita Blvd to Canal. The fire truck had to slow down to safely get around the cart because the cart would not move. Hopefully those additional seconds didn't mean life or death to whomever the fire truck was responding to. :ohdear: