"Tom S" > wrote in
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>> >My travel agent tells me that driving in Italy becomes increasingly
>> >dangerous the farther South one goes.

ridiculous driving in Italy is insane everywhere!

but on a more on topic theme, I too have noticed a lack of degustation type
signs in Italy and more enotecas offering samples of local wines. So if
sampling the local goods is the thing the local wine shops are the place.
OTOH, the back roads are beautiful.

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>> I would not say it is dangerous, the style changes, it demands more,
>> how should I says this, flexibility? One gets used to it.
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> Hi, Mike -
> It sounds like you are delicately suggesting something akin to "Mr.
> Toad's Wild Ride" (an old Disneyland attraction). IOW, there aren't
> any traffic laws (or at least none that are enforced) and one would be
> well advised to rent the car that has the loudest horn! ;^)

That loud horn will save you on many a twisty mountain road. There are
plenty of traffic laws in italy-with many interpretations- Italy is the
only place where I have seen traffic cops routinely inspired to tear up
tickets after watching dramatic explanations for ordinary wrong behavior.