Driving in Tunisia

[susana ayadi]

I drive in Hammamet a lot as I live most of the year there. I find the experience most enjoyable! Also when driving to see my husband's family in Karawaun I enjoy not having so much congestion and traffic on the roads as in U.K. I enjoy driving on the right hand side it seems better.

[sparkle]

i'll never forget i nearly ran over two old ladies in sousse and i was shaking so bad and the ladies were shouting at me
i just dont know what happened i just didnt register them til the last minute and they were on the bl**dy zebra crossing, i was really shaken up and they were horrible ol ladies shouting at me i was in a right mess, i couldnt drive as i was shaking so much mt whole body had lost control of itself ha ha not funny but hey least i can look back at laugh 2 seconds more and i think it would have been a different story.
atill dont know what happened to this day it was like my brain had stopped how could i not register 2 old ladies on the zebra crossing
i didnt drive for a whole week

[Jenny]

I've just been driving once in Tunisia and even though it just was in Hammamet (in Tunis I would never even dare to try to drive) I thought it was awful. In Sweden we are tought to drive deffencive, but in Tunisia (and many other southern countries) the driving is very offencive. So if not neccessairy, I will not drive there again. But the worst thing was that it totally costed us a lot of money, because during the night when we had the car parked outside the appartment someone bumbed in to it so the car got damages and we had to pay for those damages. Before we had rented the car I had asked about extra insurance in case someone would bump in to it, and the man at the rental office just said that it wouldn't be any problems. You just call the police and sort it out...but that is not working when you don't know how did it. When we had payed the damages we tryed to get a receipt from the car rental companies garage specifing the cost of reparing each damage, because then we could have got some of the money back from my swedish insurance company. But we never managed to get that receipt and finally gave up. So next time we rent a car we will be very careful from what company we rent it from.

[feefad]

I have to say I prefer my method. I get driven My husband and his family drive, they know the roads and quite scarily can second guess some of the craziness on the roads

[Roseheart]

I did try driving out in Tunisia, only the once though,
everyone in car poking fun at me and confusing me so i got and and left the car there, guess i had the last laugh!

[Essem]

Hi guys, just added some blog about driving and breaking down in Tunisia!

[MEMO43]

My first experinece of driving on the wrong side of the road (right) was a 3 hour drive from from PEK to Feriana about 15 miles from Kasserine - wow what an eye opener! Don't people know what pavements are for!?

[sparkle]

yep mine does that he nearly got ran over the first time he went over the shops which is literally across the street ha ha

[VivB]

ha ha Sorry! Its not funny but my hubby did the same thing don't know who got more of a fright me or him. My heart was in my mouth... My heart still pounds when I think about it!!

[jacqui0414]

I never drive there now, i was once driving down to Kasserine with hubby and his friend in the car it was dark and it was raining, on the way there were no street lights so i was finding it hard to see as you know no lines in middle or side of road either :-( we were going through a little town and i went through a big puddle and didnt think anything off it until my hubby and his friend started laughing, they then pointed out i went through the puddle ans it soaked about 4 guys who were walking on the road lol i stopped driving after that