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Europe: it’s the little differences
Two weeks: Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Brno.
Petrol (Gasoline) is $1.25/l ($5/gal).
Trucks are only allowed to go 90km/h (55mph).
Cars are supposed to go 130km/h (80mph), but there wasn’t any speed enforcement that we could see.
Most cars have smaller (often diesel) engines, but there are still plenty of 3l and 4l gasoline VWs, Audis, BMWs and Mercedes who make it very clear that 160km/h is a cooler speed.
McDonald’s is everywhere but with local flavor and language. (Achievement award plaques are always in English.)
Instead of WalMart, they have Tesco, equally everywhere and equally putting local businesses out of.
Almost everyone speaks some English in the larger cities, though you sometimes have to inflect as a local to be understood. In smaller towns, pointing suffices.