Title: Beware Les Flics
Post by: DelBoy on July 06, 2006, 01:51:56 am
For all those headed to La Sarthe this weekend, the law is out already.
I have just returned from Dordogne, and came back via LM and the A28.
I saw two separate mobile radar traps on the A38, one just N of Alencon and the other a few miles S of where it joins the A13.
BEWARE.
Del
I have just returned from Dordogne, and came back via LM and the A28.
I saw two separate mobile radar traps on the A38, one just N of Alencon and the other a few miles S of where it joins the A13.
BEWARE.
Del
Title: Re: Beware Les Flics
Post by: wishy on July 06, 2006, 07:13:48 am
Hi del
I guess you have finally managed to retrieve your caravan?
I guess you have finally managed to retrieve your caravan?
Title: Re: Beware Les Flics
Post by: Barry on July 06, 2006, 08:03:19 am
Thanks for the warning Del
Title: Re: Beware Les Flics
Post by: Jason on July 06, 2006, 08:37:45 am
Good to know, thanks for the warning Del.
One other reason for their presence is that Le Tour de France is in the region.
Thurs Beauvais > Caen (passing via Rouen)
Fri Liseaux > Vitre
One other reason for their presence is that Le Tour de France is in the region.
Thurs Beauvais > Caen (passing via Rouen)
Fri Liseaux > Vitre
Title: Re: Beware Les Flics
Post by: termietermite on July 06, 2006, 09:29:18 am
Careful, you may also find them in the service areas (Aires)!
Title: Re: Beware Les Flics
Post by: DelBoy on July 06, 2006, 12:48:52 pm
Hi del
I guess you have finally managed to retrieve your caravan?
I guess you have finally managed to retrieve your caravan?
Yes, Wishy. Got back at midnight last night. Just wanted to get the warning out before I flopped out.
Not an uneventful trip, however. Went on LDlines overnight thursday. Boat circled outside Le Havre for 4 hours because the French fishermen had blockaded the port in some minor dispute. Eventually got off the boat at 11.15 instead of 7.15. Clogged it going down - cruising at 110-120, getting there (near Perigeux) in 6 hours. Picked up the van and stayed on a nice site in N Dordogne friday and sat nights.
A mile out of the site on sun morning, a tyre on the van blew out, and I didn't notice until I was running on the rim - the van was rock steady, running on a flat at 70!! Got it back to the site on the spare from the car (same diam, same fixing studs, but a lot fatter - tyre was just rubbing the inside of the wheel arch). Then had to wait till mon afternoon to get it fixed - sad really because it was only 33 degrees there. Left tues morn and got back with no more aggro, apart from a very impressive thunder storm overnight in La Sarthe, and it was p*ssing with rain whilst driving home from Pompey.
I'm done with driving for a few days having done 1300 miles since friday.
Del
