Is there a good site or book that provides the meaning of road signs (with pictures) in Europe, specifically Czech Republic and Germany?
We visited Switzerland & rented a car in 2001 (our only trip to Europe) . We passed one road sign for which we had no clue what it meant & were never able to find out. Hopefully we didn't break any laws, but we want to be prepared for a May 2010 trip to Prague/Germany & possibly Austria.

Try http://www.travel-island.com/driving...ing_czech.html - you can also selsct other countries roadsigns at the same site.

In all my driving in various countries in Europe, I've only passed one sign whose meaning was unknown, even without knowing the language. I later learned it was something really obtuse, like earthquake zone ahead, or something equally non-hazardous. Certainly not a critical one.

Of greater us in the CR is either a GPS or a good sense of direction. City-to-city is OK, especially on an expressway, no different than driving in a different state for the first time. Village-to-village, if that is your intent, is more of a challenge. Czech can seem like a Scrabble game without vowels. We drove from Marianske Lazne to Kutna Hora on secondary roads, and their road signs seemed to alternate (every 5 miles) from mentioning the next town to mentioning the town after the nest town. So we frequently thought we'd missed a turn off. Luckily the sun was shining, so I knew which way was south. Good thing it wasn't overcast.

Rick Steves has drawings of road signs in many of his travel guides.

excellent advise from all, thanks so much!