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Europe's Summer Traffic Jams

PHOTOS: Europe's Unbelievable Summer Traffic Jams
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The fifth weekend of summer holidays in Europe is traditionally synonymous with epic traffic jams. As Belgians, Italians French, Germans and Dutch depart on holiday or attempt to make their way back home en masse, the European highways are the site of record kilometers of bumper-to-bumper cars. Saturday,France is expecting massive traffic jams direction south, and in the south of Germany and Switzerland, too, travelers better take their time.

Europe's summer traffic jams: source of much annoyance, but of great pictures, too.

Take a look at last year's debacle:

Epic Traffic Jams
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Motorists are stranded on a highway on July 31, 2010 at the toll station near Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France, for the fifth weekend of summer break departure. (Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Aerial view of motorists are stranded on a highway on July 31, 2010 at the toll station near Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France, for the fifth weekend of summer break departure. (Phillipe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Aerial view of motorists are stranded on a highway on July 31, 2010 at the toll station near Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France, for the fifth weekend of summer break departure. (Phillipe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Aerial view of motorists are stranded on a highway on July 31, 2010 at the toll station near Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France, for the fifth weekend of summer break departure. (Phillipe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Aerial view of motorists are stranded on a highway on July 31, 2010 at the toll station near Villefranche-sur-Saone, eastern France, for the fifth weekend of summer break departure. (Phillipe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)
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Cars queue on the A7 motorway on July 24, 2010 in Lyon, eastern France, for the fourth weekend of summer break departure. (Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:Getty)

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