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www.buzzaway.com
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no miles, no service, but often under $50 rt!!!

If you take the car transporter train thru the Chunnel, you will find yourself driving on the left, in a left-hand drive car. Unless you have A LOT (as opposed to none whatsoever) of experience driving on the left, I do not recommend this. Sitting on the wrong side is one of the ways we subliminally remember to drive on the wrong side. Do not drive on the left for the first time in a left-hand drive car. Unless you have truly EXCEPTIONAL powers of concentration it will be dangerous.

When I was in Ireland, you are correct, being in the driver's seat on the right side (or should I say the wrong side) of the car helped me to stay on the wrong side (or should I say the left side) of the road.

I always thought it would be the same in the rest of Europe. If not, yes, it could be extremely difficult to keep up.

Everyone else, thanks for all the great advise. Hey, how long is one stuck in that chunnel thing. I take it, its a tunnel that goes underwater?

The channel crossing time for Eurostar train is only 20 minutes. For more information see these links:

http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/eu...nel_tunnel.htm

http://www.channeltunnel.co.uk/

Hope it helps.

Under the seabed, huh? I don't know why, but I feel safer flying. If anything happened, I would think there is at least a chance I could pop up from under the water (although I don't know how deep the channel is), but to try and get out from somewhere not only underwater, but under 150' of seabed, I would think even MacGuyer couldn't make it.

There must be others that feel this way, although the chunnel has been around for awhile, so it is probably old hat to most by now.

lisamcgu: Ireland and U.K. drive on the left, rest of Europe on the right.