The Big Read: Holiday in England? You're going to take a horrible pounding

Here's one way South African highways are better than English highways: on English highways there are no signs to tell you the speed limit. Either they have no speed limit - and despite my eternal optimism and willingness to give it a go in the face of foreign laws, even I recognised this as unlikely - or the English, those notorious domestic colonialists, just Anglocentrically assume that everyone is familiar with their regulations and standards.