Police speed camera - Caleta

[Ivemovedon]

For Holier....

[suendrob]

We've been back home just over a week, and I already miss the gentler pace of Fuerte roads. And we live on the Isle of Wight which you would expect to be quiet. Not so. Everyone rushing down narrow lanes, speed limits might as well not exist.
This year as an experiment I made a point of keeping to the Fuerte limits and it really wasn't difficult. Strangely enough the SDeat Ibiza ran comfortably at the 40,50,60,70 kph rates, better than it did at equivalent 30, 40, 60mph. Itseems easier to drive legally on Fuerte than UK!!!

As it happened, we never saw a single police vehicle  (while I was driving) the whole holiday!! And I looked closely at any suspicious parked cars too.

[RVEEE]

As a regular visitor to the South, when I'm driving through Caleta I'm still getting used to being on the other side of the road again so it's unlikely that my hire car will be blasting through.

As others have said, all speed traps are welcomed - by the people living there.

Personally, yes I also like to pick and choose which laws I obey. Like using & selling drugs, thumping annoying people in the pub and robbing banks.

[Ivemovedon]

don't think anyones disputed the validity of speedtraps. Just the amount of them.

[suendrob]

Its a revenue earner. Definitely.
Think of speeding, parking, seatbelt etc fines as am optional tax.

[Spike On Q]

Newport I.O.W. during the morning rush hour - how long is the tailback on the road from Ryde these days? Poor you.

Mind you I got stuck in a traffic snarl up in the road works in Costa Calma today - - there were FOUR,  yes FOUR cars in front of me! Bloody cyclists all over the place on some sort of cross country jaunt!

So you do not believe they are a "Life Saver" in any sense, including seat belts worn properly, just there to earn money for the state. So if they all these restrictions were removed and people [loosely put] were allowed to do as they please the roads would be equally as safe or alot safer?

[Brightspark]

Newport I.O.W. during the morning rush hour - how long is the tailback on the road from Ryde these days? Poor you.

Mind you I got stuck in a traffic snarl up in the road works in Costa Calma today - - there were FOUR,  yes FOUR cars in front of me!

at the end of the day you live in practically a third world country, Poor you.

[Spike On Q]

Ah BS, you've been to the Isle of Wight then

[Michelle and Simon]

Spike you truly are a plonker.

[Spike On Q]

Why - what have I done now?

I'm only 66 1/2 and still have so much to learn

[zedzedeleven]

Spike you truly are a plonker.

He is, isn`t he? perhaps that`s why we love him!

[isleswing]

Actually, Spike does make some very valid points.
Doesn't always stop and think before writing, and he isn't quite as funny or 'clever' as he thinks he is, but - - - - - - - - are any of us?

[suendrob]

Newport I.O.W. during the morning rush hour - how long is the tailback on the road from Ryde these days? Poor you.

Mind you I got stuck in a traffic snarl up in the road works in Costa Calma today - - there were FOUR,  yes FOUR cars in front of me!

at the end of the day you live in practically a third world country, Poor you.

The traffic is still hell so I work my hours to avoid as much as poss. Most of it is due to lack of planning by the council.
Ourq island has a lack of investment, no major infrastructure spending for years, unlike Fuerteventura which gets a lot, just not necessarily the right things or the right places.
Not exactly third world but we are near the top for unemployment, old people, low wages, illegitimate births, roads per square mile AND cars per mile of road!!!! Not all of those are connected.

[Spike On Q]

They closed the railway line between the main Island gateway Ryde and the capital Newport in 1965 and never bothered to consider reopening it due to the high cost

In the late 60's it was the hippy nirvana, 20 odd night spots, major UK bands on every week [Moody Blues, Black Sabbath, The Move, even Gene Vincent, etc. etc.], the three huge festivals with Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Bob Dylan, Tiny Tim, etc, some say even bigger than Woodstock, 600,000 hippies turned up from all over the place. Now you struggle to find a good night out even at the height of the season

I loved my time on the Isle of Wight and I still love to visit. It is one of the most beautiful places in the World on an English summers day. I could reminisce  about the Island for hours, in 1967 I met Scott Walker of The Walker Brothers in Hursts hardware shop at the top of Union Street buying and electric blanket, he was "in retreat" at Quarr Abbey - my best friend Roz Murphy lived and died there

My ashes are to be spread on The Solent when I die - my time on the Isle of Wight left such an impression on my life