No I thought driving the Autobahn would be an exciting experience with the unlimited speed limits. Once you start driving it you realize it's not that exciting. There is always a lot of road construction or random places where the speed suddenly drops to 80mph. It's such a pain to be cruising at 110 mph then having to slow down, and then getting back up to speed. You have to pay attention when the speed limit drops as there is the possibility of a speed camera at that location. And getting back up to speed and crusing at over 100mph is hard of the fuel mileage. Now that we drove 300 miles on the Autobahn our fuel mileage has dropped to 30mpg.
What I really liked on the Autobahn are the orderly drivers. No one passes on the right and everyone follows the rule about keeping the left lane open for passing. Once in a while you will be stuck in the left lane behind a slow car passing a slower car but they move back to the right as soon as they can.
Now that our journey has taken us out of Germany and to Belgium and France, I don't mind the 80mph speed limit but I do miss the more predictable German drivers.
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