After what happend to us in Spain, we deiced to not rent a car ever in Europe again. Me and my husband went there for our honeymoon last September for two weeks, and we got payed the largest fine in our live.Even though we had amazing time there.
First we went to Barcelona, we didn't need a car because of the public transport. It was such a lovely time. We visited tourist sites, ate paella _which is a Spain's traditional food, drank juices at la rambla street. We had spent a week there before going to south Spain villages.
As soon as we arrived to the south , we rent a car. In the south they have a small villages next each other. They didn't have buses or train betuen them, that why we had that car. Each village have a landmark we wanted to see. So we stayed in hotel and every day we drove to a one of the landmarks to see it. until we visited Alambra _one of the south villages.
Alambra was two hours driving from our hotel. we had to went throw many villages before we got there. All the problem started from there. when we took the high way we didn't see the speed limit sign any way, so we thought the highway wasn't observer. By taking back to the hotel, my husband took another high way. however the GPS wasn't updated with this new highway. Then we realized that we got lost. Finally after three hours we got to our hotel, but this nightmare didn't finish yet.
Later my husband received an email from the car rental, mentioned that they took a 2000 Euros from his visa, to pay his ticket. We were exceeding the speed limit, opposite a oneway sign, and more.
Now, whenever you want to drive a car out of your country, you should be familiar with the Traffic Systems there. Don't make the same mistake.
You were going the wrong way down a oneway street and going too fast? I think a 2000 euro fine is lucky, you could be dead. Next time you drive!
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