Today I will talk a bit about driving and vehicles in Algeria, as it is one of the most shocking things to live here. I will explain the vast majority of differences between driving in Europe and lead in Algeria.
1 º In Europe we are accustomed to the changes in meaning are with bridges, tunnels, etc ... here is simply no separation between both directions of the road (on the highway is just a curb quite small and the rest of There is no direct road nor imaginary physical separation (ie, one line painted) between lanes), so if you want to change direction is as easy as making a 180 º and merge as best they can to your new track. Since this happens even in other roads highway was not to be outdone, change direction is as easy to turn back.
1 º In Europe we are accustomed to the changes in meaning are with bridges, tunnels, etc ... here is simply no separation between both directions of the road (on the highway is just a curb quite small and the rest of There is no direct road nor imaginary physical separation (ie, one line painted) between lanes), so if you want to change direction is as easy as making a 180 º and merge as best they can to your new track. Since this happens even in other roads highway was not to be outdone, change direction is as easy to turn back.
Reversing . You can see how the cars invade the opposite direction to cross. 2 º No grate painted on the road most defining tracks, many times you can find someone going through a very wide road where two cars can fit.
Ni stripes painted or anything. 3 º the guardrails on the highway are conspicuous by their absence. How too much in some dangerous curves in the mountain is a sort of low wall.
Road in the mountains, often the cars down to a speed high enough to be a curve and invading a bit the opposite direction, with the risk of accidents that implies. 4 º There are not many lights on the road.
5 º Here most of the works of the road are unmarked. With the risk involved, since you can run over a worker or estamparte against a machine.
6 º There is hardly any signs or signals, serious, costly and requires multiple kilometers (talk of the town) to find a traffic light, in fact, the few that there are marked (which in Europe is very rare to see a sign warning that there is a traffic light). Signs are a few more traffic lights (but not much more), there are very few stops and signs of giving way, I am convinced that I can count the number of hands allowed to turn right / left direction. The signal that if they use a lot is to warn that there is a roundabout.
Cross no signal. 7 º No zebra crossings in the center of the city seems to be that at some point there was some pedestrian crossings but have been erased by the passage of cars which now serve no purpose . I am sure that there are traffic lights for pedestrians to cross just wait and when you see fit and you're cross.
8 º There are many places where the sidewalk is absent (either because there is not, because it is destroyed or has been invaded by some trade, which happens often), so the mix all types road of vehicles and pedestrians want to cross pedestrians have no choice but to walk down the road.
People walking by where you can. 9 º Some cars do not have belts for rear passengers, and that the laws only require that the front passengers are wearing belts. Too often get into a taxi and has no belts in the back, either because the model of the car had no mark or because here you have a bad habit that are falcate rear belts between the back seat and trunk and only possible by moving them out the back seat, which is not plan to do and less when the taxi drivers at the best speak Arabic and French, because more than one only speak Arabic.
sure you ask yourself, "With all these incentives driving is not totally chaotic? Yes, and I have not deciphered what system used to know who has priority, etc. .. because seriously, there are areas where there is not a damn sign or traffic light for miles.
The largest of the chaos comes when they want to change direction, the system I'm afraid it's like to cross a street to be pedestrian, watching you and change when it may seem.
Well, is how it seems to fully understand because I have not seen any accidents because of this, I've really been an accident but was at a wedding, and here in the wedding do things a little peculiar that explain another day .
Fixing a car in Tlemcen. 
Cars in Tlemcen. like to say something that Rafa told me is that most cars here are very old or low cost car (by this I mean Asian brands) buy a car here here is a huge expenditure because the standard of living, instead of gasoline price is shot, about 10 euro cents a liter. Can you imagine getting to and from Valencia to Madrid and spend only (and pulling from the top) 10 € of fuel? That also explains why there is so much old car here than it consumes a huge amount.
13 dinars a liter, about 10 cents. 
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