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Dazzer, yes the motorways ARE excellent. As long as you avoid Paris, and also avoid travelling south / southwest at the very beginning of Parisien holidays (that is, Good Friday, the start of August and Christmas in particular), you will very very rarely see any traffic to speak of, let alone traffic jams!
Expensive? That's debatable. In a car (yes, I know that MHs are classed differently), the extra paid in tolls is saved in time and diesel winding along the N-roads. There are also toll-free motorways (the A20 from Vierzon to south of Brive, for example) that are excellent roads too.
Horses for courses - if you want to "get somewhere", the motorways are for you. If you simply want to "explore all the way", they are not.
An award-winning post. So many "isms" and so beautifully condescending. Here are the highlights:-
... many housewives never drove further than Asda or their Mothers house {stereotype/sexist}
.... wait till Hubby came home {stereotype/sexist} and would nag him {implied ignorance}...
... while ... workers{implied "Do you work or are you a housewife"} ... were tucked up at the table having tea {stereotype/sexist}
... Now all they have to do {patronisation/generalisation} is get Hubby or Dad{sexist} to preprogram{stereotype/implied ignorace}... so they can ... clog the middle lane {assumption/insult/stereotype} take wrong turns (despite the fact that TomTom Said LEFT quite clearly) {implied ignorance/patronisation} cut wagons up at the last minute {assumption/insult/stereotype} .....
.... If you can't drive the bloody thing you should not have one {omnipotence} .... if its too big for you get something more manageable {omnipotence/patronisation}
... Oh and don't try reading that map whilst driving it {patronisation/omnipotence}
Dougie.
Well Dougie,
I vote we should award your response, Brilliant!. I hope with such an understanding of English you speak more than one language?.
Trev
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I vote we should award your response, Brilliant!. I hope with such an understanding of English you speak more than one language?
I speak fluent Glaswegian, but it's never done me any good (I was brought up in Edinburgh).
I can converse fluently in French for 6 minutes, then have to start again (tends to be enough to make friends & gives the impression I'm cleverer than I am).
I can converse in German for hours about Trabants, but nothing else.
My wife will verify all the above.
Dougie.
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Well, I'm impressed!! So you can converse in 4 languages (well, Glaswegian is another language isn't it? Says she, ducking ) at least to some degree - that is impressive in my book.
They are the best thing scince sliced bread, they just need an ounce or 2 of common sense. Probaly why scince they have come down to such a low price everyman and his dog (and his wife n kids) have one and the volume of traffic has increased so dramaticly over the last 3 or so years.
I mean after all many housewives never drove further than Asda or their Mothers house. If they wanted to nip to Cheshire Oaks or the Trafford centre they were knackered without sat nav. They would wait till Hubby came home and would nag him to take them, while us Everyday workers and commuters were tucked up at the table having tea.
Now all they have to do is get Hubby or Dad to preprogram the TomTom so they can do it during the daytime. When I say do it during the daytime I mean clog the middle lane, take wrong turns (despite the fact that TomTom Said LEFT quite clearly), cut wagons up at the last minute and finaly "arrive at thier destination".
As for RV's and French Roads, well as much as I love these things and would like one very much our drive is too narrow for a start). If you can't drive the bloody thing you should not have one. I have seen professional wagon drivers (jugganaught) get wagons in places that many would not get a large panel van through.
Horses for courses, if its too big for you get something more manageable. Oh and don't try reading that map whilst driving it.
How true!
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Expensive? That's debatable. In a car (yes, I know that MHs are classed differently), the extra paid in tolls is saved in time and diesel winding along the N-roads. There are also toll-free motorways (the A20 from Vierzon to south of Brive, for example) that are excellent roads too.
Horses for courses - if you want to "get somewhere", the motorways are for you. If you simply want to "explore all the way", they are not.
Just came down to portugal, the french motorways cost just over Ģ100 I call that dear, in comparison from the french border to lisbon all but about 13 miles on good\excellent half empty, mostly free motorway Ģ20 ish, I call that cheap.
Olley
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