abroad

[Byronic]

I did think when posting "I bet someone proves me wrong", but then I don't visit any FUNny sites unless someone posts a link.

I rarely visit the site don't register/log on so my search rather relied on
memory & manual dexterity so I won't be posting a link but dig through;

To MH Chat Page 3
Thread Title.... Touring In The UK-you deserve a medal
Page 3 U/name Brian & Jo
Quote; 'got no intention in going abroad...' 20 likes!
Page 8 U/name Diggerdi
Quote; 'I have never been abroad and have no wish to...' 6 likes.

Should be sufficient, check them out to confirm for yourself, then
you can edit your post.
Don't ask me to find the other couple!

 

[deckboy]

Do's & Don't's
DO go
DON'T worry

 

[silverweed]

The first time I went I was very very nervous. Not about going but about driving. I purchased a new garmin sat nav, best thing I did. It was one of those that has Lane guidance. Once over there I wondered why I had fussed so much, it was so easy. A lot of French roads have slip roads that take you from one road to the next and this is where the sat nav was invaluable as there can be a number of slip roads to choose from and the sat nav pin points the one you need. We have now been going every year for 9 years and have only used a camp site once for a week only due to the fact our son joined us with his family camping. Using the poi map and also places we find ourselves we have never had a problem finding places to stay, never even struggled. I use a euro prepayment card for general shopping (my French is not good and I struggle to make sense of the numbers so the card makes it easy in supermarkets) and a credit card for fuel as more and more supermarket fuel is pay at pump only and certain week ends and out of hours they are.
Only once we had banging on the door in the middle of the night. Tentatively opened the door to be confronted by two young men in their thirties. They said they were driving home from Paris (we were in Sete) and had almost run out of fuel and would we use our card to put in €10 of fuel and they would give us the money. I racked my brains to figure out the scam but couldn’t think of one so off I went and I put in the fuel and they very gratefully gave me the money. When I asked why they knocked on a foreign van and not the French one next to us they answered that the knew the French would not help. They were a pair of nice young men. Shows that a knock on the door is not always something to be worried by