When driving a car in Cyprus you can learn something about history: the island was once a colony of the British Empire! And there are even still today two British naval bases that belong to United Kingdom. For you this means mostly one thing: to drive on the left side of the road. Typically, this switch inside your head is easy, you just need to remember to give way to cars coming from the right when entering roundabouts. What always happens to me is that I try to enter the car on the front passenger side. Always good for a laugh…
Car rental companies recommend that you take a car with automatic transmission. It relieves you from searching the gearshift on the wrong side. Speed limits are officially as following: 50 km/h in cities, 80 km/h outside cities and 100 km/h on motorways. Very often speed was limited to 65 km/h, but signage wasn’t good. Luckily, navigation systems like Waze can show you the most probable current speed limit and remind you on it. Road conditions on Cyprus were good; it is just the absolutely rural areas where streets turn into gravel roads.
Κύπρος / Cyprus
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