Me and the family go to Italy at least once a year. Typically, we try different parts of the country to see what we like, with a view to hopefully buying a property there one day.
The usual form is to book a bog-standard 4-door saloon with the hire car company, arrive, try to upgrade to the baddest-ass car they have, fail, and then hoon around the place like I stole it. I've been flashed by numerous cameras on the autostradas when flat out, and the worst that's ever happened is a traffic cop on a bike once waved his finger at me for doing 100mph whilst on the phone. He then sped off. In short, I drive like every other Italian. When in Rome..
Anyway, for the first time ever, I received two tickets from our last trip, via the hire car company. Annoyingly, both relate to driving in a segregated area of Florence. This is solely due to the wife getting us lost, despite having a map, satnav and Google maps.
My question is - should I pay the tickets? They are for €150.
I'm a lawyer by trade, so no fear of a little dust up in correspondence. However, I don't want to arrive on my next holiday and be banned from the country/arrested.
Anyone with any knowledge of this? Thanks.