Getting to Monaco avoiding France....
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I'm going to Monaco in September. Ideally i'd like to avoid France as much as possible on the way down there but still have some fast roads on the way. Does anyone have any suggestions on routes? I was thinking of Calais and then nipping over to Belgium but from there on in i'm undecided on the route. Is it likely to be loads longer than just blasting through France?
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I don't know how much you travel around Europe, but I can't believe you would spend years avoiding driving in one of the nicest to visit countries in Europe over a couple of speeding tickets.
Why not just ring them up or email, find out how much you owe and just pay it?
What will it be? A few hundred quid or something?
Small price to pay to avoid being 'wanted' in a country!
Why not just ring them up or email, find out how much you owe and just pay it?
What will it be? A few hundred quid or something?
Small price to pay to avoid being 'wanted' in a country!
NinjaPower said:
I don't know how much you travel around Europe, but I can't believe you would spend years avoiding driving in one of the nicest to visit countries in Europe over a couple of speeding tickets.
Why not just ring them up or email, find out how much you owe and just pay it?
What will it be? A few hundred quid or something?
Small price to pay to avoid being 'wanted' in a country!
This, many times. Why not just ring them up or email, find out how much you owe and just pay it?
What will it be? A few hundred quid or something?
Small price to pay to avoid being 'wanted' in a country!
It's funny, if I saw an M5 touring I would be mildly pleased and idly wonder what sort of oerson bought it. If I found out it was someone who couldn't afford a parking ticket I would laugh hard and shake my head muttering something about entitlement and priorities.
batmanreturns said:
Can't! We;ve got a villa for a week in the south of France and i need the M5 Touring to cart everything down there whilst the Mrs and nipper fly down. I'm collecting them from Nice airport! Good thinking though!
So, lemme get this right... You're going to get the boat to Calais, cross the border into Belgium, then cross the border from Italy back into France, spend a week bimbling around France, visit an airport a couple of times, cross the border back into Italy, cross the border back from Belgium, and back through Calais again... but you don't want to drive down an Autoroute...? <scratches head>As has been said, crazy excuse but that's the OPs wish so here goes....
We used hull to zebrugge for the honeymoon, first stop was Luxembourg then Strasbourg & then the excellent route through the black Forrest into Switzerland. After that we headed into Monaco via the st Bernard's pass & Italy.
So, even crossing into Belgium we still ventured into France for a fair bit.
It might be worth posting in SP&L section on here to see what your options are seeing as you're a fugitive! If money is no object then you should be able to do it, but then if money is no object you might as well just pay the fines!
We used hull to zebrugge for the honeymoon, first stop was Luxembourg then Strasbourg & then the excellent route through the black Forrest into Switzerland. After that we headed into Monaco via the st Bernard's pass & Italy.
So, even crossing into Belgium we still ventured into France for a fair bit.
It might be worth posting in SP&L section on here to see what your options are seeing as you're a fugitive! If money is no object then you should be able to do it, but then if money is no object you might as well just pay the fines!
Disastrous said:
I'm with you OP!
bks to them and their fking fines.
Massive respect for people deliberately making things more difficult for themselves to avoid rules on principle.
It's the financial penalty he's avoiding. bks to them and their fking fines.
Massive respect for people deliberately making things more difficult for themselves to avoid rules on principle.
Unless he's avoiding France to force the Gendarmerie to rethink their speeding laws.
audidoody said:
Disastrous said:
I'm with you OP!
bks to them and their fking fines.
Massive respect for people deliberately making things more difficult for themselves to avoid rules on principle.
It's the financial penalty he's avoiding. bks to them and their fking fines.
Massive respect for people deliberately making things more difficult for themselves to avoid rules on principle.
Unless he's avoiding France to force the Gendarmerie to rethink their speeding laws.
To the previous poster, I don't really care about whether foreigners pay fines here or not. Pragmatically, it's largely irrelevant as assuming our rules mirror other countries, they can choose to either pay them or avoid the country in future, just as the OP plans to.
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