Perspective
Feb. 21st, 2008 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneParis is as far from Amsterdam as Boston is from Philadelphia. Since the speed limit in France is 130 km/h (81 MPH), the 210 km from the outer Parisian orbital to the Belgian border would take only an hour and a half or so. One could drive a Beetle on a full tank of gas and not need to stop, but it'd still be smarter to fill up on the way.
I began thinking about driving distances in Europe thanks to Google Maps. Every time I looked up an address in Google, I'd find the full map just as I would for an American city. Suddenly the spiders of expressways started to unveil and my map fascination set in. Next I wanted to get an idea how far various cities are from each other, so I ran a search on Versailles (which is home to a giant palace and a prominent park and ride station) and learned it was 520 kilometers from there to Amsterdam. That's 320 miles, whereas my house to Philly is 311 miles.
I hear there is a weird rule in Paris where the driver on the right has right of way at a rotary. How can that even function? That's something to research.
I began thinking about driving distances in Europe thanks to Google Maps. Every time I looked up an address in Google, I'd find the full map just as I would for an American city. Suddenly the spiders of expressways started to unveil and my map fascination set in. Next I wanted to get an idea how far various cities are from each other, so I ran a search on Versailles (which is home to a giant palace and a prominent park and ride station) and learned it was 520 kilometers from there to Amsterdam. That's 320 miles, whereas my house to Philly is 311 miles.
I hear there is a weird rule in Paris where the driver on the right has right of way at a rotary. How can that even function? That's something to research.
