When in Rome, you'll get flattened whichever way you look, cos the drivers will use any bloody bit of tarmac that isn't currently occupied, and do their damndest to take possession of any that is!!! Paris would be as bad, except that it's wall-to-wall traffic jams. :-)

As far as girlfriend goes, if she's not realised by now that the US is in the middle of the next Vietnam, that plenty of people will object to that, and that many Brits think the US is responsible for the UK being involved, then she really is as much of a dumb blonde as she looks.

Graham.