Getting to Monaco avoiding France....

Getting to Monaco avoiding France....

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batmanreturns

Original Poster:

536 posts

268 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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?

Thanks

Tom8

2,018 posts

153 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Try a boat. Are you a UKIP member?

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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batmanreturns said:
Is it likely to be loads longer than just blasting through France?
Take a guess...

Alex

9,975 posts

283 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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My girlfriend (now wife) and I made a very similar trip 20 years ago. Our route was roughly: Brussels-Cologne-Innsbruck-Venice-Florence-Pisa-Portofino-Monaco.

The best driving stretch was Venice to Florence.

Bluebarge

4,519 posts

177 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Any French warrants for your arrest? smile

batmanreturns

Original Poster:

536 posts

268 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Couple of unpaid speeding tickets in the past hence keen to avoid France incase they pull me!

Tom8

2,018 posts

153 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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batmanreturns said:
Couple of unpaid speeding tickets in the past hence keen to avoid France incase they pull me!
Fair point! Fake number plate?

batmanreturns

Original Poster:

536 posts

268 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Ha! Does anyone know how long i'd remain 'active' on the French database for unpaid speeding tickets? IT was coming upto 3 years ago now.

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Fly into Italy hire a car in your partners name and nip over to Monaco?

batmanreturns

Original Poster:

536 posts

268 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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!

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Go through the night slowly I would think if any checks are going to be made it's in Calais. I've never been pulled on French roads but have been checked in Calais.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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!

Fotic

719 posts

128 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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.

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.

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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>

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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!

Disastrous

10,072 posts

216 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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.

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Cost of paying fines V cost of extra fuel used avoiding France? confused

Edited by MitchT on Tuesday 8th July 18:10

TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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.
Does this just apply to Brits in Furrin, or should Furriners be able to ignore British traffic law, too?

audidoody

8,595 posts

255 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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.

Unless he's avoiding France to force the Gendarmerie to rethink their speeding laws.

Disastrous

10,072 posts

216 months

Tuesday 8th July 2014
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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.

Unless he's avoiding France to force the Gendarmerie to rethink their speeding laws.
Yes, I'd spotted that. I wouldn't want to pay foreign fines either. In fairness, I'd rather not pay speeding fines in Britain as I don't agree with my having to obey laws as a general principle, but it's pretty impossible to avoid being a citizen here. I'd happily pay twice the cost of the fines in petrol to avoid lining foreign police pockets though. In fact I'd happily pay twice the cost of a fine here to charity to avoid paying the authorities!

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.