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Car Forum / Land Rover Cars / October 2006doing france !!
hi each me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 anybody know what class it will come under on the french toll roads ???  Signatureles m les m <lievon@tiscali.co.uk> uttered summat worrerz funny about: > hi each > me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 > anybody know what class it will come under on the french toll roads > ??? 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 > 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. 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 > > 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 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Neil 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 Signaturewww.beamends-lrspares.co.uk sales@beamends-lrspares.co.uk www.radioparadise.com - Good Music, No Vine Lib Dems - Townies keeping comedy alive > les m <lievon@tiscali.co.uk> uttered summat worrerz funny about: > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Lee D Oo-er Missus! Counts as regular car, even if you have a roofrack that pushes you over 2m. Stuart > hi each > me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 > anybody know what class it will come under on the french toll roads > ??? Check it on: http://www.autoroutes.fr/voyage/pratique_classification.php?lng=2 Gerard www.gerardlist.com www.landrovernames.com 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 ;-) Just remember that in France, if someone flashes at you it actually means "Stop! I'm coming through"!! > hi each > me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 anybody > know what class it will come under on the french toll roads ??? > 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... SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! >> Just remember that in France, if someone flashes at you it actually means >> "Stop! I'm coming through"!! [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 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 > Here, the speed and duration of the flash conveys the meaning. Holding > your beams on definitely means "stop". I find that some tyre smoke and a little screaming reinforces the message ;-) AIUI though highway code sez lights means get the feck out of the way, it's just that most of us would prefer a means to say "after you old chap". Gives you hope. SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! >> Here, the speed and duration of the flash conveys the meaning. Holding >> your beams on definitely means "stop". [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >it's just that most of us would prefer a means to say "after you old >chap". Gives you hope. 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". SignatureAustin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that "There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too" Sir Francis Drake (1540? - 1596) Attr. saying when the Armarda was sighted, 20th July 1588 > Just remember that in France, if someone flashes at you it actually means > "Stop! I'm coming through"!! > >>hi each >>me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 anybody >>know what class it will come under on the french toll roads ??? 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 >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. in this country, we tend to get "thumbs down" at the same time. SignatureAustin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee" John Donne (1571? - 1631) Devotions, XVII >hi each >me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 anybody know >what class it will come under on the french toll roads ??? 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 <news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> uttered summat worrerz funny about: >> hi each >> me and er are going down throo france in nov. in the luvable 90 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I reckon im going to embarass myself the first time i try to use the > LPG filler adaptor ive bought! :) 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 >Tom Woods <news@NOPSAMtomwoods.co.uk> uttered summat worrerz funny >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. 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!) >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 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >Where you going? I have a Totalgaz map ere of the stations across the >country. 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? >The Autoroute overlay will have you pulling up outside nice old cottages >which have never so much seen bottled water never mind bottled gas. 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!) |
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