Agreed but having driven in France several dozen times without any trouble over the years, often during school holidays, with no issues, you must've been very unlucky.
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Holiday rush
- Thread starter essbee
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Agreed but having driven in France several dozen times without any trouble over the years, often during school holidays, with no issues, you must've been very unlucky.
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
- 5,330
The tailbacks were caused by fukwittery at the toll booths. Simply cash in the card lane. Card in the cash lane. Right hand drive not being able to get to the other side of the car and put cash where it needed to go. With very few staff on, this snowballed with holiday traffic. With a few more staff on, this would have been resolved straightforwardly.
I was reminded of this during my recent visit to France for the euros where there was a lack of information and organisation. Taking Lille for example, there were too few staff checking bags on entry to the game causing a huge backlog of people outside the ground. Irony being that any terrorist could have killed a multitude of people in that queue as opposed to inside the ground given the volume of people waiting to get in. Every time I visit France, something or other gets on my nerves in terms of organisation of which there appears to be little.
I'm not patient enough for another visit in the near future.
- Jan 19, 2010
- 1,190
Having a Liber-T tag makes driving in France a much better experience:
https://www.saneftolling.co.uk/what-is-liber-t
https://www.saneftolling.co.uk/what-is-liber-t
Not worth the money IMHO, unless you drive over there a lot. Just stick your credit card in the slot.
DavidRyder
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- Jul 23, 2013
- 2,885
Our favourite destination over the last few years is Yorkshire. One day I'll tie in a match up there too. The best UK destination by far, for us anyway.
- Jan 19, 2010
- 1,190
It's less about the money, and more about the convenience. But each to their own.
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,108
When you say "was", I am hoping you meant "is"? I am driving it in a few weeks.[emoji41]
As for driving in France, I have never had issues on toll roads, always been good and worth the money.
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Daddies_Sauce
Falmer WSL, not a JCL
- Jun 27, 2008
- 853
They were issuing them for free, not sure if this is still the case.
sllugaes
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- Dec 15, 2012
- 673
You are missing out. May, June are the best times. Numerous journeys down to spain with no jams/delays. As previous posters say, N routes, D routes can be brilliant, amazing straight roads which are mostly empty.
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