Driving in Europe (Italy, France & Switzerland)

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About to head off on holiday driving down to Italy in a couple of weeks and am feeling a mixture of excitement and trepidation (well we are going in the TVR).

I have not driven outside UK (except hire cars in N America) before so out of touch with what I need to do - apart from drive on the right and obey all the rules.

I looked at the list of requiremnets for driving in Italy and it states a spare wheel must be carried. The car didn't come with one so do I really need one. Is that rule enforced or more of a guideline?

Anything else I should know?

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Puggit said:

http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/overseas/coun...

You will also need to know what this sign means in France:

And more importantly, this one:

Took a bit of searching:

Priority road, you do not have to give way
End of priority on this road, you must now apply the "priority to the right" rule

Thanks for the heads up but couldn't you just have told me of am I joining a secret society?

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Thanks for the heads up guys.

Any chance you could just tell us what that sign means or do I have to join the society?

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Amateurish said:

The first rule of French driving club is...

learn about priority to the right.

So you treat crossroads as roundabouts essentially but without reversing the priority direction of UK ?