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Gardian

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  1. Licences: no idea, but ask around at your intended marketplace (not with the food guys!) - they'll tell you. As for offerings, anything better than greasy burgers / dogs / anything else nasty, would be welcome & potentially profitable I'm sure. Personally, never fancied anything on offer. However, you're not going to make your fortune on it. Pitta breads with some tandoori chicken / salad etc. Maybe some 'Chinese' type noodles with beef shreds. I don't know - almost anything would be better than most of the rubbish offered around here. Try it: best of luck.
  2. This thread reminds me of the old local newspaper headline: "COUNCILLOR FIGHTS ERECTION IN HIGH STREET" It always made me chuckle.
  3. Jo ............ Having 'holidayed' in Provence for many years on the trot (and now living down here), we know the run fairly well. Suggestions Night 1 There isn't much between Calais and Reims, so my suggestion would be to press on to there - say 3 hrs with a fuel / loo stop. It's a nice place, with plenty of accom & restaurants to choose from. I'll post the link later for a place we've used before, which is OK (but not brilliant) - the advantage of it is that it's v central, cheap and there's an adjacent underground guarded carpark (important when you're travelling with all your holiday kit) I believe that the Ibis next to the station (also central) is aircon'd, so that might be worth a look. If you choose to go a bit further (+90 mins), I'd suggest Troyes. Excellent hotel there, but not especially cheap (€80+) - again, I'll post the link. Plenty of restaurants for all tastes in a pedestianised area. Night 2 Perhaps Beaune?  Loads of the usual chain hotels on the edge of town and just off the main motorway exit. Novotels are good, because there are no nasty surprises and they do family rooms + the kids get free breakfast etc. If you want to go a bit further, why not Lyon itself?  Lovely city and one which most of us simply hammer through in a pele-mele dash for the south. Again, pedestrianised restaurant area with loads of choice. Can't help much with hotel names I'm afraid - ages since we used one, but look for something central. Google it & get a city map for hotel location. The advantage of getting as far as Lyon for nt2 would be to leave yourself a nice gentle trundle down to Arles. there are big roadworks south of Lyon just now and you'll inevitably get a bit delayed through that lot. It'll be better at 10.00 on a Saturday morning (which I bet it is) than 14.00. Reckon 3-4 hrs Lyon - Arles.  Finally, if you've never been before, you'll love Arles.  Nice town & loads of other good places around. Hope that helps. 
  4. Re "Impec(c)", it isn't just kids ....... when we took delivery of a new car at a VW dealer (our Brit-registered car gor written-off, so had to buy something), the very elegant 55-ish lady owner said that when we took delivery, it would be "Impec".  Trying to be smart, I've used it on occasions since. "Nickel" seems to be used in much the same context, but I sense in a more mundane way, i.e. "The ceiling that I've just newly built is nickel".  Any French nationals out there who can help? 
  5. Dick ....... Well, a fairly normal, customary and healthy diversion from the original thread, I'd say! To further digress, I've noticed (other than the unrepeatable / unspellable) words which some of our locals come out with, some other colloquial bits: (pls forgive the spelling, if incorrect): "Impecc" "Nickel" Are these 'Southern', or do you hear them 'up North'? 
  6. ............... oh, and what's the betting we get completely stuffed in Australia ?  (RU, of course)
  7. I don't know whether I'm going to be able to get through the next 6 wks or so. Firstly, all the World Cup bollox, overlaid with more than a passing smidge of: "Come on Tim" at you-know-where "Come on Andy" at you-know-where Everything is "Tough" at you-know-where At least Schumacher got his just deserts yesterday - they should have had the guts to ban him for the rest of the season. Grump over.
  8. Thanks Ron. I must admit that I wasn't exactly losing sleep over it - just a bit irritated that I can't get the bill out of the way.  Funny isn't it, how we can fret now over paying our bills that we know are due when we've got the money, and when we were younger and skint, we'd have been happy if they never turned up (but they always did!)   
  9. Anybody with any experience of the above, or for that matter any other ferry company operating to Corsica out of one of the southern ports? Just that we've always fancied a few days over there and we're pretty handy for Marseille / Toulon. Accommodation quality on overnights?
  10. Wish you luck. Finally managed to pay my Tax F for 2005, but despite letters & phone calls, am still struggling to get anyone to take my money for tax d'h. 
  11. Yes. Negotiable (depending totally on what they're going to do, ranging from just drawing up the plans, to a full project mgt job). Separately. (my advice would be a negotiated fixed price, because if then you overspend, as you inevitably will, you're not in to a % of your overspend).
  12. Oops, sorry about Le, or rather La Loire - but it makes my point.
  13. Cathy is absolutely right - these people are dragons (Welsh origins??!!) Whatever the opposite of charisma is, our one's got it. I remember a recent lengthy conversation with all the 6 of us in the queue as to whether Cyprus, then Portugal and finally Spain were in Europe!  Seriously. All a question of the frankage to put on the envelope. Just as well I had all morning to listen to all this nonsense. Come to think of it, I reckon that she has got a touch of Welsh in her Provencal accent.  
  14. I'm sure they do. It may well be 'top-stopped', but even so, the turnover in our local place is mind-boggling. There are deliveries twice-daily (though that's probably no different to the UK) - but we are pretty rural. If I drop in my wife's prescription for a quite rare and pricey drug before 10-ish in the morning, it'll be there by 14.00. 
  15. Le Loire? La Seine? Le Rhone? La Saone? and ................. Le vagin (which my wife assures me is masculine !!!) My neighbour says that I might be getting halfway close to speaking decent French when I master the genders. Some hope!!   
  16. The pharmacie in our local village (800 souls) employs 5 or 6 Pharmacistes + the owner and his wife. Think of the cost of employment in the UK, let alone over here. Mind you, when the campsites get going (about now, actually), they'll all be in there for their 'dodgy tummy' stuff. To be fair, they're really helpful down there. But then, so would you be, eh?
  17. I'm greeted like a VIP when I go in to our local pharmacie - well sort-of, anyway! My wife's medication is astronomically expensive, but easy to dispense. I leave the prescription, drop by a day or two later, end of story. But I see people having interminable discussions over the what they require and taking away (literally) carrier-bag loads of dope - hope they aren't all suppositaries! I'm thinking of asking for a Carte de Fidelite at our local place. 
  18. Roseysan ....... Just looked back on my post from last night, and I was a bit abrupt: sorry. However, the moral is clear: don't leave yourself short of fuel over here 'out of hours' (unless you have a French bank a/c, and even then, .........). Been there: done it.     
  19. With the greatest possible respect, this problem has been so well documented in the British Press and on this Forum, that I'm amazed that anybody would be surprised. Anyway, "Yes", exactly as you say - if it's an automatic machine, it won't take anything other than a French card. Get one, or fill up when the Caisse is open.  
  20. I didn't post that twice !  (Just as well I didn't make some sarcy comment yesterday about DottyTrois's treble effort, not that the thought ever crossed my mind). Tis all up the creek just now.  Adieu ..............  forever. 
  21. [quote user="Russethouse"] My last post was very slow so I hit preview and then 'post' - a message popped up to say that the system is configured to not accept duplicate posts !!!! PS Using 'Preview' then 'post' is quicker ! [/quote] Same thing happened to me!  Am really getting the hump with all this, having been kicked out 3 times in the last 20 mins.  Beginning to feel like the 'unfrocked' Miki. Sort it out somebody (James?).  Your customers are getting grumpy. 
  22. [quote user="Russethouse"] My last post was very slow so I hit preview and then 'post' - a message popped up to say that the system is configured to not accept duplicate posts !!!! PS Using 'Preview' then 'post' is quicker ! [/quote] Same thing happened to me!  Am really getting the hump with all this, having been kicked out 3 times in the last 20 mins.  Beginning to feel like the 'unfrocked' Miki. Sort it out somebody (James?).  Your customers are getting grumpy. 
  23. The whole site seems to have got very slow over the last week or so. No problem with other websites.
  24. ....... oh, and understand why it happened in the 1st place, so that they can .......
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