Antipodes

For English and Australian visitors to Paris, driving has always been been a somewhat disturbing experience, because the French drive on th...

On the road from my place up to Grenoble, there's a marvelous spot where the road turns around the tip of the Vercors range before the f...

Snow hit us massively during the night. Nobody can say we weren't warned. TV weather reports have become amazingly precise. Yester...

All too often, rural road signs make no attempt to be friendly. They order you to slow down, or turn in a certain direction, or stop… and th...

The other day, on my way to St-Marcellin, I came upon the scene of an accident on a stretch of country road where there's never much tra...

I wonder how foreign drivers in France react when they see this sign: Accotement meuble . What on earth might that mean? To obtain a satisf...