Otazka c. 9 / Quiz No. 9
For English translation please have a look below.
Ahojte vsichni,
tak jsem pro Vas vymyslel dalsi (tentokrat asi zaludnou a spise tipovaci 🙂 ) otazku. Bude se tykat dopravy a na ktere strane silnice se ridi.
Nekdy behem naseho cestovani jsme se s nekym bavili (myslim, ze to byl Markus, kdyz s nama cestoval s Carmen) o tom, kde se jezdi v pravo a kde vlevo. Markus mi pak vypravel, proc tomu tak je. Podelim se s Vami o tento pribeh (nevim ale, jestli skutecne pravdivy).
Ve stredoveku asi clovek jezdil po te strane cesty, kde chtel, ale spis se jezdilo po leve strane cesty. A to z toho duvodu, ze pri rytirskych klanich rytiri najizdeli po leve strane, protoze po prave ruce se mijeli a na pravem boku drzeli drevce (neco jako kopi, co rytiri drzeli v turnajovem klani a srazeli sve soky).
I na cestach se tedy ustalila leva strana.
Z leve na pravou se to zmenilo az za Napoleona, ktery byl udajne levak a savli drzel v leve ruce a proto vyuzival pravou stranu cesty.
Asi proto, ze Napoleon Anglii nedokazal dobyt, tak se stale jezdi po “te divne” 🙂 leve strane.
Tak zpatky k otazce. Projeli jsme uz spoustu zemi a nekde se jezdi vpravo a nekde vlevo. Tipnete si, kde vpravo a kde vlevo. 🙂
Nevim, jestli se Vam to podari vyhledat na internetu, proto jakakoliv odpoved/ tip mi bude stacit.
Novy Zeland
Fiji
Taiwan
Thajsko
Kambodza
Laos
Vietnam
Singapur
Malajsie
Odpovedi mi posilejte jako vzdy na muj email: petr.klement@centrum.cz
Uz se tesim na Vase tipy 🙂
petr
Hi all,
one more question. this time about traffic and which side of the street they drive on.
During our travelling I was talking with Markus (I think) about the history of driving on right or left side. He told me that in the middle age the people were driving usually on the left side because of the knightly duels. Knights were holding the lance (spear) in their right hand and meeting each other on the right side.
Just Napoleon changed the left side to right side because he was left-handed. Maybe because Napoleon has not conquered England, they have still be driving on the left side :-).
Well, back to my question. We have travelled through many countries and in some they drive on right and in some on left side. Just guess, all incoming emails are correct for me :-).
New Zealand
Fiji
Taiwan
Thailand
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
Singapore
Malaysia
I am looking forward to receiving your answers on my email: petr.klement@centrum.cz
petr 🙂