Our road trip to Berlin turned out to be better than expected. The fact that half of it took place on an actual autobahn and that we managed to stay under the radar of German police made it quite uneventful.
You see, we don't have a Polish/EU license. We were supposed to get one when we got here, but my dear husband didn't think this was important. We have applied for one now, but the license wasn't ready before we left. We don't even have the international driving permit. So, technically, we are driving illegally here.
Normally, this doesn't bother me. However, our diplomatic tags are not the same as EU tags and are not recognized by the German authorities. Slightly Cracked and Thrify Expat have been pulled over twice for this reason. And, while we followed their advice and got our diplomatic corp sticker and PL sticker to identify what country we are traveling from, I still worry about trying to communicate with German polizei. Our car is now parked in a garage across the street so we are safe for a few days. I'll be relieved if we can get to the German border without getting pulled over.
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Don't worry about communicating. Germans all speak English. (I'm sure that's not actually true, but even 12 years ago when I moved to Germany and got stopped by the Polizei, they spoke to me in English.) But, still, better that you don't get stopped:).
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