Re: continental driving

On 6 Jan, 17:22, Rank I Mong <h...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:35:42 -0800, NM dribbled:



On 6 Jan, 10:19, Rank I Mong <h...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:08:49 +0000, Bod dribbled:

Rank I Mong wrote:
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:16:08 -0800, NM dribbled:

On 5 Jan, 19:43, "Brimstone" <brimst...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm thinking about taking myself off on a tour of western Europe a
bit later in the year, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium etc.

Can anyone point me at useful sources of info regarding driving
requirements and cheap places to stay?

Any pointers to potential pitfalls would be useful as well.
As you probably know I have spent a large chunk of my life driving
to every country in Europe, The Middle East and North Africa, I
could give you a lot of useful information however as you are known
to troll and the details of your proposed trip are vague I am
reluctant to spout volumes of advice.

Some bits of general advice, becoming more obvious the further you
get from Dover,

1, Learn the phrase "I don't have any money" in as many languages
as you can.

2. Carry small denomination notes, if you have to pay out for a
bribe or to get out of trouble you won't get change from a big
bill, don't rely on credit/debit card service being available in
spite of the adverts to the contrary.

3. Some places the secondary currency is cigarettes, find out the
preferred brand in the country concerned and make sure you have a
supply.

4. Take care to have the correct documents in France, a very
expensive frogmarch (no pun intended) to the ATM could await you if
you don't.

Why not post more detail of your intended trip.

Which part of "Western Europe" don't you understand?

RIM

   So you class "Western Europe" as a detailed report of his trip
   then?

I don't class anything you say as sensible at all.

I suggest that you don't know the meaning of "detailed". It was a
fair question.

No, it wasn't.

Brimstone did say "Western Europe", then "France, Spain, Germany,
Belgium" for a start. I'd love to see NM try and bribe a German copper
with cigarettes or small change. His advice was tosh. It might have
worked 40 years ago...

Here is as good a place to start as any

http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/overseas/index.html

RIM

As he hadn't detailed any specific journey then I posted general advice,
I did qualify it by saying it becomes more valid the further you get
from Dover, Brimstone, being a sensible chap, will not assume that I was
advocating bribing German Border Guards (if you can find one these
days).

 As driving in Western Eurpoe, regardless of actual country, is very
similar one country from another I thought it unnecessary to post such
information.

 You seem to have found this offensive, tough shit clever cunt.

You've taken 3 paragraphs to say "I posted a load of shit"

RIM

Why did you?
.

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