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Originally Posted by Ken / Claudia
I wonder how many places in Europe and other counties that large truck can travel on the city streets or find a place to park.
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In 1975, we had a "baby blue" Grand Torino station wagon. When we went on vacation for a month to tour Italy, there were places in Rome, Naples and Florence that I promised the Lord that if he'd just get me out of these narrow streets, I'd NEVER own another car that big. We traded for an Opel 1900 station wagon when we got back to Germany.
We wound up, more than a few times, on cobblestone streets where there was literally "inches between the buildings on both sides" and two Fiat 500's trying to pass us, one on each side... An "unspoken rule" in Italy is that whoever blows their horn first has the right of way... That provided us with some pretty obnoxious "hand signals" from the Italian "horn blowers"...
It gave us an entirely different perspective on those "Narrow Road Ahead" signs
