Vive la difference

Michael MacClancy said:

The wonders of tolls!

The wonders of very little traffic :-)

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"Dave Larrington" <[email hidden]> wrote: ( Cycling in rural France, though, is Most
Excellent, and French drivers will ) wait patiently behind a heavily-laden touring bike, with a
prominent GB ( sticker, ...

Where does the GB sticker go? I have enough trouble finding somewhere for the rear light once I'm
loaded up.

Just zis Guy said:

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:51:37 +0100, [email hidden] (Carol Hague) wrote:

[re: le Mont St. Michel]

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Is there still a huge glass book in the middle of the cloister at the top?

Don't recall seeing it, so maybe not.

Oh good - perhaps they've realised how incongruous it looked....

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Did you get to see the tide come in ? Absolutely amazing to watch, even if you've heard about it
before.

Yes, amazing. But not over the causeway.

Yes, we were surprised that the Mont doesn't get cut off completely like its Cornish counterpart...

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- Angela Carter, "The Lady of the House of Love"

Geraint Jones said:

Where does the GB sticker go? I have enough trouble finding somewhere for the rear light once I'm
loaded up.

'twas on my camping mat, which was carried rolled up across the top of the rack.

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Michael MacClancy said:

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and in Belgium you really must be on the lookout for cars coming from the right, always.

Surely you mean all directions ;-)

Fair point - "....coming from all directions, always".

Especially one foot off your rear bumper on the motorway. Holland is slightly better; they give
you two feet.

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Holland is slightly better; they give
you two feet.

The Dutch get really ratty if you have the audacity to cycle on the road when you should be on the cycle-path, even when it doesn't go where you want to.

My first time in Holland I got stopped by the police for dangerous cycling.

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In message <[email hidden]>, Clive George

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Not seen one like that in the times I've been driving to the alps/pyrenees on N roads (ie I
tend to meet roundabouts in a lot of areas). They're all like the GB ones with the obvious
mirroring thing.

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I agree, the priorite a droit on roundabouts seems to be largely a thing of the past.

Largely, but not totally. Between our office in Marly-le-Roi and our hotel in Versailles we, the
foreign project team, negotiate two with priorité à droite and one with give way lines. The very
Gallic failure to change them all makes them exceedingly hazardous.

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Seamus said:

The Dutch get really ratty if you have the audacity to cycle on the road when you should be on the
cycle-path, even when it doesn't go where you want to.

That'd be because it's illegal... Prolly the same reaction as the Brits getting really ratty when
cyclists run red lights.

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