cook1e Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 On the Beeb News website today:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23619783 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Cook Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Fines are stupidly high in France. Always hurtling through Calais 3 or 4 times year we recently decided we'd give Calais a chance and booked a hotel in Calais for a more leisurely start in the morning. We parked up, had a nice lunch, visited the Town Hall and headed for our hotel. It was closed so we thought we'd park up and wait. No parking spaces to be found and I can't go much more than 100 yards because of a crook knee, so we parked in a disabled bay by our closed hotel. A short while later two gendarmes, both packing guns, gave me a ticket. Sarah speaks excellent French and explained that I was due an operation in a few weeks and you don't get a disabled permit for that. I even showed the cops my crutches but they kindly stole €136 from me. And...when we went to the hotel, they had double booked us and we had to go elsewhere.Calais, you had your chance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocita Rosso Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 8009 wrote:Fines are stupidly high in France. Always hurtling through Calais 3 or 4 times year we recently decided we'd give Calais a chance and booked a hotel in Calais for a more leisurely start in the morning. We parked up, had a nice lunch, visited the Town Hall and headed for our hotel. It was closed so we thought we'd park up and wait. No parking spaces to be found and I can't go much more than 100 yards because of a crook knee, so we parked in a disabled bay by our closed hotel. A short while later two gendarmes, both packing guns, gave me a ticket. Sarah speaks excellent French and explained that I was due an operation in a few weeks and you don't get a disabled permit for that. I even showed the cops my crutches but they kindly stole €136 from me. And...when we went to the hotel, they had double booked us and we had to go elsewhere.Calais, you had your chance!Those French hotel receptionists really are the pits.... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikew Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 worth looking at this bbc article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23619783 about the French in their war against english drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocita Rosso Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 mikew wrote:worth looking at this bbc article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23619783 about the French in their war against english driversTime you got some new glasses.....try post number one ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Quote:... The French police stress that British drivers are not the worst offenders - they say some of the fastest drivers are Dutch ...Oh dear, there goes my carefully prepared image of being a sensible driver ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velocita Rosso Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 On page 21 of the road book there is a place called Le pont de claix.........just been advised by a French colleague that there is the equivalent of the SPECs cameras...measuring speed between two pointsSo after your three hour break in Grenoble.......don`t go roaring off in the early hours.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triumph Only Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 (whistle)(whistle) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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