Lacking Enthusiasm...
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Sideways Tim said:
Left Spain on a sour note though, as the parking that I thought meant five hours free, wasn’t. Ticket for a €60 fine 
The first time I drove to Spain (in my Rover P6) I got a parking ticket on the street in San Sebastián. I was staying with a college friend and asked her how I should go about paying it. She just looked at me like I was crazy. "I wouldn't pay that, and I live here," she said. She thought the chance of them ever tracing me in England was zero. This was 30 years ago however, and she was (still is - I was there again last year) Basque not Spanish and had a rather cavalier disregard of authority! They never did trace me.
LotusOmega375D said:
Sideways Tim said:
Why haven’t the contractors just lobbed a couple of shovels full of tarmac straight into the pot holes like they do here?LotusOmega375D said:
Why haven’t the contractors just lobbed a couple of shovels full of tarmac straight into the pot holes like they do here?
Honestly, it was amazing. They wouldn’t let us on until they had sent a road sweeper along to make sure it was free of loose stones. Proper job!Just landed at our boujee place near Bordeaux. Think Easyhotel/Group4 overnight stay and you’re not far off 
Apparently there’s a decent restaurant five minutes walk away though
Long but good drive today, it was so nice to hit France and be back in the land of many cafes, boulangerie and pleasant little towns.
Apparently there’s a decent restaurant five minutes walk away though
Long but good drive today, it was so nice to hit France and be back in the land of many cafes, boulangerie and pleasant little towns.
Sideways Tim said:
We’re heading for Mehun-sur-Yèvre today, lunch in Angoulême, which will be nice 
Last September was my first visit to Angouleme for the races. I'm going back this year. The artwork was great. I've been trying to find out where to buy a copy of this one of the police pulling over a nun in a Ferrari (shades of The Cannonball Run). If you see it in a shop window, let me know!Rumdoodle said:
Last September was my first visit to Angouleme for the races. I'm going back this year. The artwork was great. I've been trying to find out where to buy a copy of this one of the police pulling over a nun in a Ferrari (shades of The Cannonball Run). If you see it in a shop window, let me know!
I hope she doesn't make a habit of speeding.Rumdoodle said:
Sideways Tim said:
We’re heading for Mehun-sur-Yèvre today, lunch in Angoulême, which will be nice
Last September was my first visit to Angouleme for the races. I'm going back this year. The artwork was great. I've been trying to find out where to buy a copy of this one of the police pulling over a nun in a Ferrari (shades of The Cannonball Run). If you see it in a shop window, let me know!Turbobanana said:
Rumdoodle said:
I hope she doesn't make a habit of speeding.A few years back the gendarmes were forewarned that the Cannonball was about to come to France. Two cars, a Ferrari and a Porsche, were stopped forty miles into France and the cars confiscated to be sold at auction for State funds. One went to the auction and bought his car back, the other didn't. About ten years back, maybe more, there was a thread on PH about a chap with a brand new California having been stopped at the highest speed recorded, over 300 kph. I got involved in this and at court it was proven that the car was a company one, not his personal car, and he was ordered to pay €1,500, the highest then possible, but the State could not keep the car. We then went to the garage where the car had been stored and since the owner had been rather less than friendly I explained the situation to the garage owner and managed to double the storage costs. I was then paid in cash as well. I heard a year or so later that he went back across to Calais and was swiftly turned around and sent back to the UK because he was still banned from driving in France.
hidetheelephants said:
Judging by the blurb at the bottom it's sponsored by the red lion in Angouleme, so asking there is probably worth the effort.
Aplogies - did look, but it’s as though the Circuit des Remparts doesn’t exist at present!The Croque Monsieur at Le Chat Noir are excellent though
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