That's the French in me.

[gavroche]

As you are aware, I like a good moan and it doesn't take much for me to get started. Just got back from having spent one week in the Ardeche region where the temperature was between 27 and 32 everyday. Whilst there, we visited many places and not a single one charged for parking the car. We also went to a couple of boot sales where entry was free. Back here, we are going to the Chester races today to celebrate my wife's daughter's 50th birthday and guess what? On top of paying the £15 entry charge, we also have to pay £8 for the privilege of parking the car in a muddy field!
Britain certainly deserves its reputation as a rip-off country.

 

[snorri]

The hard pressed motorist.
Road tax, fuel tax, speed cameras, congestion charges, parking charges, my heart bleeds..........not.

 

[vickster]

Why do you live in the UK given you appear to dislike it so much? Go back to France as its so fantastic? Or there's a great big wider world out there. You're retired, what's stopping you?

 

[gavroche]

Why do you live in the UK given you appear to dislike it so much? Go back to France as its so fantastic? Or there's a great big wider world out there

Read my post again. I never said I dislike the UK and I do like living here but it is a fact that everything in the UK is based on money and that is the thing I don't like. The UK is a great country otherwise.

 

[vickster]

I've never found France a cheap place to visit or live in

Are you suggesting that the organisers of the Euros in France won't be charging for parking, overpriced beer, overpriced food etc? A corporate enterprise just like your races

 

[Levo-Lon]

Going by all the goings on in France atm id say its a deeply unhappy place...and i mean all the strikes and civil unrest..i liked Paris but i hate living there...

 

[vickster]

Exactly... The grass isn't always greener

 

[jonny jeez]

As you are aware, I like a good moan and it doesn't take much for me to get started. Just got back from having spent one week in the Ardeche region where the temperature was between 27 and 32 everyday. Whilst there, we visited many places and not a single one charged for parking the car. We also went to a couple of boot sales where entry was free. Back here, we are going to the Chester races today to celebrate my wife's daughter's 50th birthday and guess what? On top of paying the £15 entry charge, we also have to pay £8 for the privilege of parking the car in a muddy field!
Britain certainly deserves its reputation as a rip-off country.

Problem is, you are not comparing apples to apples.

Take a trip to Cumbria or Scotland...or yorkshire (the UK equivalents of the ardeche region) and see how much you have to pay to park the car . Sure, in town or at a national place of interest you may...but mostly its as free as France.

Get out in the sticks, its as beautiful and free as France...without all those French types skulking about.

Ps, you were lucky the ardeche region wasn't closed due to industrial action and that you could also afford to go there, after the government taxed 75% of your income before you left home (I appreciate this one doesn't really apply to you...but you get my point)

Every third person I interview right now is French. There must be some appeal, what can it be?

 

[gavroche]

Some people on here seems to enjoy distorting everything I say. They must be the same people who will vote to stay out of the EU due to their sheer ignorance of the real Europe, not the one describe by Boris and Co who are only after full power to themselves. Au revoir.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Well ok then..PS.. €35 for 2 coffee's a 2 cakes is quite expensive...
But i saved on parking as i used the train..but got charged another 30 euro to go in a taxi for 10 mins..bargain lol

 

[vickster]

I'm voting remain personally

 

[Crackle]

Lucky he went to the Ardeche in-between strikes.

 

[Drago]

They've just abolished parking charges in central Northampton. Suddenly business is booming and everyone's takings are up.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Some people on here seems to enjoy distorting everything I say. They must be the same people who will vote to stay out of the EU due to their sheer ignorance of the real Europe, not the one describe by Boris and Co who are only after full power to themselves. Au revoir.

A Brit complaining about the French on a largely French forum would have got told ''Tu peux toujours rentrer'' just as quickly you were here. That's what I call the ''real Europe'' - though I rather like the idea of taking the capital letter out of Europe: the real europe. It points toward what's common underneath the rival power blocs.

 

[gavroche]

Lucky he went to the Ardeche in-between strikes.

To be honest, all the time I was there their was no signs of any strikes. Airport was working properly, no queues for petrol, life was just as usual, so I suppose the strikes only affected big cities.