Honking horns abroad

[Chouah]

Just this, what's with all the honking of horns?! I'm on hols, having a cuppa on the balcony above a, admittedly fearsome road, where they're all overtaking and pulling out in front of each other and honking like mad!

I drive at home and almost never honk my horn, unless I'm about to take out a pedestrian who's stumbled out onto the road.

Just wondered if there's something I don't know about driving abroad, that I don't know about. Do they teach you to honk as much as possible? None of them seem particularly wound up, but to listen to it you'd think everyone is raging!

Have a look in the highway code for 'abroad' wherever that may be.

No idea where you are, but I spent some time and Barbados and it's common to give a little bip on the horn as you round a bend just to alert oncoming vehicles to your presence.

Italy?

Which country?

Sri Lankan drivers seek to honk their horn at any manoeuvre....

Don't ever go to Rome....

Yes always honking in Italy - you can give them a little honk and they all honk back - like saying hello 😁 fist shake too for good measure

I'm in Greece. I've been to Rome, now that's a whole other story of driving nightmares

Where I am you honk your horn when cars are wandering into your path because the driver is on their mobile. This is pretty much all day every day.