Driving

I have just returned from 8 days well deserved rest in Mallorca and have been considering the way that drivers are treated there compared with here. Getting to the airport in England necessitated a drive around part of the M25 and along another motorway. It was not a familiar route to me but it was on three lane motorways with nice wide British lanes. The speed limit is an unrealistically low 70mph and the fear of speed cameras and lurking police speed traps meant that I (and presumably other drivers) were spending as much time looking at their speedometer to make sure that I had not inadvertantly drifted over 75mph and looking for yellow boxes next to the carriageway, odd cameras on gantries and white vans on overhead bridges. By way of contrast in Mallorca the roads are easier to drive on. I have never seen so many decent two and three lane roads in such a small place. The lanes are narrower and the speed limits not so frequently advertised, also as there are no fixed speed cameras and speed traps are rare many people exceed the speed limits and concentrate on driving as fast as the conditions allow. The result is that traffic flows well as drivers are concentrating on the road, the conditions, the traffic around them and not on avoiding being caught by the authorities. I can honestly say that my driving in Mallorca was a pleasure, like driving in the UK was before the collection of fines and the suppression of any joy in motoring took hold. Maybe a move to Mallorca is in order?