Britain just seems to have a shocking attitude towards cyclists on the road. WARNING – more when I cycled to the Jungfrau Waffle upcoming.
Getting across the UK was quite un nerving – I'd swear some low slung sports car drivers try and go under your bar ends. Rather than wait for you to get through a gap drivers tended to just race to squeeze through which they did but often only an inch or two from my bars. Verbal abuse from a driver – every day at some point.
France – drivers seemed happier risking a head on with on coming traffic than not give you enough space. The only person who cut us up and even then it might have been my fault imediately got blue flashing light treatment from a police car that happened to be in the area.
Switzerland – they come a bit close at some times but the closest call we had was with an F16 taking off. Not sure they'd put a cycle way across the end of a military airbase runway in this country.
Never quite understand the Mail and its insistance things will never work 'that way' even though they seem to do so quite well in other countries.