Warning For British Motorists En France
- Thread starter Keith1
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You just have to keep to the speed limits and you will have no problem. The limit on French Autoroutes is 81 mph, which seems a bit slow in my Porsche (and GT40), but isn't too bad for covering the miles. Just take care.
Pete McCluskey.
Lifetime Supporter
The French are still smarting because the Brits kicked their arse in Napoleons time.
They are better cooks though!
They are better cooks though!
Jim Rosenthal
Supporter
What a bunch of prats.
Assholes. (an American word meaning "asshole")
Assholes. (an American word meaning "asshole")
We are just as bad as the French. Vosa target all foreign trucks traveling northbound on the m25. There are vehicle weighing strips in the carriageway that can weigh a truck axle to axle at speeds of 60mph, coupled with the information held on the trucks they know if its even a cwt over and they stop the lot. At £1000 a ton for overloading they are milking the situation , the overloaded truck has to off load the excess into a warehouse and return later to collect it. The revenue from this makes the speeding fines in France look like chicken feed. We are talking of hundreds of trucks a day.
Bob
Bob
Different story Bob sorry. The overseas trucks are driving on cheap fuel, putting hour whole transport industry at risk, a coach and horses through drivers restime regulations, are generally overloaded, bald tyres full of immigrants and the drivers seem to lose the capacity to communicate in any language except Serb/Croat when interviewed.
The EEC and it's Anglophobic actions have already cost us some of our oldest industries, the French continue to illegally subsidise every industry that competes with ours including food production, car production, transport, air travel the list is endless, whilst we're still being gentlemanly and doing things by THEIR rules and slowly but surely being reduced to a dependent state which was surely the original objective. The old jealousies are still there.
The original story was about British holiday makers going on vacation for a well earned rest being targeted by on-the-spot fine collectors to subsidise continued attacks of OUR independence.
The EEC and it's Anglophobic actions have already cost us some of our oldest industries, the French continue to illegally subsidise every industry that competes with ours including food production, car production, transport, air travel the list is endless, whilst we're still being gentlemanly and doing things by THEIR rules and slowly but surely being reduced to a dependent state which was surely the original objective. The old jealousies are still there.
The original story was about British holiday makers going on vacation for a well earned rest being targeted by on-the-spot fine collectors to subsidise continued attacks of OUR independence.
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Hi Keith,
You're 100% correct on all counts !
You're 100% correct on all counts !
Hi Pete,
They like to think that, but having been in France many times the good lady & myself have found that the food is often very poor.
Many French restaurants serve up low quality, grisly, stringy cuts that would go into sausages elsewhere. They seem to believe that because they are 'French' anything they serve up is the dogs bollocks. (& probably once was.......)
Luckily the cakes & desserts are usually super. Take it all with wine & champers, they have got that sorted too!
Throw me a shrimp on the barbie mate, at least that won't be stone cold & bloody in the middle, like my chicken was at St Saturin the other year..... Steve
