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Secondly, avoid parking up overnight at Autoroute Aires, especially on the main holiday routes to the South of France I have never felt unsafe on an Autoroute Aire....
I tend to go with my feeling... if I feel unsafe then I maybe... But I guess that depends on how 'streetwise' the individual is.
Thanks Bob - how about "if you feel nervous about it, aviod.....etc" ?
Your proviso is everything! I can't sleep in any situation if I don't feel feel secure.
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Secondly, avoid parking up overnight at Autoroute Aires ...
I would even extend this statement to all motorway service stations anywhere. Two years ago there has been a series of raids along a German "Autobahn", several incidents have happened along the motorway-like Swedish E6 near to Gothenburg. And there is more.
Best Regards,
Gerhard
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A very balanced and informative piece, it is difficult to say "go with your feelings" because we cannot quantify them or explain them to others. But we all know when it "feels" right, or wrong - in the same way about whether we choose to walk through some parts of the UK after dark.
I think you have thought it through well and including the links is excellent - they provide an unbiased, independent opinion of what can only be the most knowledgeable body of people in the field of rendering someone unconscious.
Agree with you all, If you do not feel safe don't stop there! Some of the village aires in France are lovely and well worth planning ahead and getting off the motorway.
I do have a theory on this subject - people stop over on a motorway aire overnight and with a late tea comes out that nice bottle of French red or two They then retire to bed with a little more alcohol than normal and crash out! They get broken into in the night and do not hear this as they are both sleeping like baby's after a skin full. Next morning, horror of horrors they have been done They then think to themselves" Why did we not here them?" and with a heavy head assume that they too have been had by the mystery gas!!
Moral: Find a safe place to stop, and enjoy the wine in peace!
Secondly, avoid parking up overnight at Autoroute Aires, especially on the main holiday routes to the South of France I have never felt unsafe on an Autoroute Aire....
I tend to go with my feeling... if I feel unsafe then I maybe... But I guess that depends on how 'streetwise' the individual is.
Agree wholeheartedly - we have stopped many a time over the last couple of years on the way down, and back, from Aix on the Route du Soleil autoroute via Lyons. Whilst i have never been nervous (been doing this since 1972), my wife is new to it and has reservations - and she is French!! We have only been 'advised' twice by the Gendarme's to move as it was, in their experience, unsafe to sleep where we were. But instead of moving us off the Aire altogether, they suggested that we park up in the spaces in front of the fuel pump area so that we could be monitored on the CCTV. Both times we had a quiet night in company with 3 or 4 other MH'ers before stocking up and moving on in the morning.
Even after all my years of MH'ing, i still play it cautious - lock and alarm the 'van when inside, sleep with wallet, keys and passports under my pillow and dont sleep overnight on aires on non-tolled motorways.
Keep your eyes open and trust your instincts!!!!
be safe
Carl and Flo
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They then retire to bed with a little more alcohol than normal and crash out! They get broken into in the night and do not hear this as they are both sleeping like baby's after a skin full. Next morning, horror of horrors they have been done 
They then think to themselves" Why did we not here them?" and with a heavy head assume that they too have been had by the mystery gas!!
