Drive and walk at your own risk.

Driving/Riding/Walking here is interesting. There are very high fines for speeding and running red lights. They have cameras, big obvious cameras to catch speeders. My understanding is it is about 1,000.00 US dollars if you run a red light. There are also small poster's of a man pointing a huge finger at the traffic to remind them to go the speed limit, (to be specific, the pointer finger, for those thinking otherwise). It is a strange little poster that is made of cardboard and obviously sunbleached, as though someone just posted it on the road just as we would for a yard sale or community event but forgot to take it down after a month or two. What people have discovered is that if there is no camera....there is no speeding ticket. I suppose there are policemen monitering the roads somewhere...but I haven't seen any. There are accidents everytime we go out, they are mostly in roundabouts. Speaking of roundabouts, there are two lanes in the cirlce but the strange part is that the driver on the inside lane has the right of way. Whenever they decide to get out of the roundabout, they just turn, not always a signal, just random cars cutting in front you. I think I have started holding my breath during the roundabouts, and there are a lot. It is like a mini rollarcoaster ride each time as my husband attempts to go faster or slower than nearby cars to assure that we can get off as needed without being run off the road. To make it worse, if there is no camera....do you think they go the speed limit? We have discovered either people here are driving so slow it is a hazard or they drive as fast as manics. The crazy part is we hear that many drivers are still gone on vacation and the traffic is very managable right now! Scary!

If you are a pedestrian, watch out! We do not have the right of way. We have nearly been run over near the mall/grocery store a few times. As we were exiting the mall we went to cross the street to get to the parking lot. Cars were zooming past and even if you thought they were going to stop for you to cross it is just a joke because they speed up. Then as we were walking down the parking lot to our vehicle, a car swirved into the empty parking spot in front of us. They were so fast I just felt a whoosh of air and a blur of white as we stopped in our tracks to look closer and realize someone was cutting us off while we were walking with a stroller!!!!

A few nights ago we were on our way home and an suv didn't think we (us and several other cars )were going fast enough. So they passed us on the wrong side of the road, it wasn't a passing lane folks. Then they cut in front of us to turn right.