doing france !!

les m uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Class? Never bothered to worry in the Disco with the Caravan, we do all the way from the North to Biaritz each summer.

Cost us around £60 there and back if that helps. Given the quality of the roads and the emptiness of them in the main I've no issues at all with this and factor it in as part of the holiday.

Our resident French member will be along shortly to fill in the blanks. :-)

Lee D

"les m" wrote in news:4533b2c1 snipped-for-privacy@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com:

Check it on:

Never trust the French (or Banks!)!!!

Claim you are a 'Camping Car' as they get a discount. At least I did 6 years ago in an FC101 with Rottweiler riding shot gun that gave the toll booth operators a shock when they opened their sliding window to find themselves face to face with a healthy set of white teeth ;-)

We took the Discovery to the Vendee in August and found the French road system excellent, no delays, little traffic, reasonable motorway service/food places, lack of traffic lights in towns, good overtaking behaviour etc etc. It was a real pig then to get back on the M25 afterwards. Plus having diesel at about 60p/litre was a nice bonus.

Neil

Oo-er Missus! Counts as regular car, even if you have a roofrack that pushes you over 2m.

Stuart

I fund the roads in Brittany excellent too - well sign-posted (once I'd worked out the diagonal arrow bit) and, very significantly, very few patches from repairs/electricity/gas works. Contrary to what I'd been led to believe, the standard of driving was very high, and courtious.

Que annecdote. We were waiting at some traffic lights at (I think) Plougastal Doulais, with the flashing orange arrangement, and the repeater halfway up the post was missing so I failed to notice the lights change. The bloke behind got a bit shirty and started to sound his horn. But the bloke behind him got out of his car and started shouting at him. I left quickly, to see in the mirror the two of them with their faces about 2 inches (or should that be 50mm?) apart going at it hammer and tongs and the road completely blocked.......

Richard

Just remember that in France, if someone flashes at you it actually means "Stop! I'm coming through"!!

In theory that's what it means in this country too, that's the highway code meaning of the signal. Sometimes people try to be "in the right" in the same way that they drive their cars behind reversing landies and expect their right of way to trump the laws of physics...

Here, the speed and duration of the flash conveys the meaning. Holding your beams on definitely means "stop".

Steve

I find that some tyre smoke and a little screaming reinforces the message ;-)

AIUI though highway code sez lights means get the f*ck out of the way, it's just that most of us would prefer a means to say "after you old chap". Gives you hope.

I'm going to attempt france in the car next week.

I reckon im going to embarass myself the first time i try to use the LPG filler adaptor ive bought! :)

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Nope... they are painfully simple and much better than the ones over here... screw in adapter and the nozzel of the french filler goes within the rim of the adapter, when you clamp it with the trigger type thinggy some prongs come out the circumference of the nozzel and pull it up nice and snug.

Much prefer then to faffing around with the one we have in the UK.

Most Autoroutes have the LPG stations well signposted as GPL (Gee pee el) if you need to ask for it... I asked for Jee Pee el on one occasion which caused moments of cross linguistic frustration untill the chap pronounced latter "AH GEEEE pe el", Wotevva!

Where you going? I have a Totalgaz map ere of the stations across the country.

The Autoroute overlay will have you pulling up outside nice old cottages which have never so much seen bottled water never mind bottled gas.

Lee D

nice to hear! i really dislike the uk ones especially due to where i put my filler! (i can spill liquid LPG everywhere in morrisons if i try!)

Only going to the northern bit - just normandy i think.

I found a web based map and tommorrow nights project was to get france working in tomtom and try to add the LPG stations - so if it all goes pear shaped i shall ring you and see if i can beg the map off you :)

my parents said they keep seeing roads with signs prohibiting exploding cars - is this something to do with LPG cars?

i dont have autoroute, nor a gps other than built into my mio. im hoping that tomtom will be sufficient for navigation (and i intend to buy a paper map on the motorway somewhere in france!)

More often than not, it means "there's a mobile speed trap/police document check coming up". Particularly if more than one driver does it.

Stuart

On or around Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:35:27 +0100, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

yeah well, it depends, dunnit, like parping the horn. "parp-parp" is "cheers mate", "parp" from behind is "'scuse *me*, the light's been green for at least a second now..." whereas "paaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrp" is "Oi, get that heap of junk off my lane, you *&$^%£^%!", or "that's an even more stupid move than I would have done".

On or around Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:02:19 +0200, Srtgray enlightened us thusly:

in this country, we tend to get "thumbs down" at the same time.