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    Thoughts on Booking/paying online

    in B&B/Chambres d'Hôtes Owners

    Posted

    For what it's worth, as a punter, I use Booking.com and Late Rooms for all my hols - mostly b&bs - in Europe and the UK.  So much more convenient than the alternatives.  If it's not on the net and  bookable on line I'm not interested.  My only gripe is that it's not always easy to tell what some of the establishments mean by disabled access - often they put this when all they've got is something like a ramp into their bar, not properly adapted rooms and the booking system doesn't specify whether these rooms are the available ones or not.  Grr!

    New ruling on Winter fuel allowance

    in French Finance

    Posted

    [quote user="Russethouse"]

    No, you won't get family allowance how ever much you earn , a change was proposed in the 2012 budget and will come into affect in 2013:

    [/quote]Jolly good. 

    It's not that I'm in favour of non-means-tested benefits, simply that if that's the system then I'll take it as I don't feel I'm any more or less deserving than anybody else who takes what's due to them.  Personally, I think it should be income based and have nothing to do with where you live.  It would be far less of a political hot potato if it were about helping those on low incomes rather than giving it a meaningless name and then giving it to everybody.

    I get free rail travel in the UK because of my former profession.  I think maybe I should go to the EU and suggest that I get the same here instead of just the 50% off I enjoy at present.[:)]

    New ruling on Winter fuel allowance

    in French Finance

    Posted

    Well said, Steve. 

    I shall apply on behalf of Mr C.  If it's ours then why not?  There are plenty of things other people get who have far more to begin with than we do.  For instance, isn't family allowance (or whatever it's called now) payable to all, regardless of income, as is the state old age pension?  I used to work for a couple who had 6 racehorses and 300 acres of prime West Sussex farmland and she used to proudly tell me what she spent her old aged pension on.  They'd paid in so fair enough.  I thought that was what the welfare state was all about.  Silly me.

    Actually, I could do with a summer fuel allowance at the mo'.  I came downstairs yesterday and the radiators had turned themselves on it had got so cold in the night.

    radar warnings

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    Don't know about the breath test thing but aren't camera data bases illegal elsewhere too (Switzerland, iirc)?  I assume the idea is to make more people just stick to the speed limit and not rely on mechanical devices to slow them down only in the places where they might get fined.  If you believe speed limits save lives then I guess you must,  by definition, think that this is a good move, not a bad one.

    Panorama - UK Disability Allowance

    in People with Disabilities in France

    Posted

    Should we look out for you?

    I've been watching the thread on WFA elsewhere on here and the debate about whether or not it's fair that once you've left the UK you should be allowed to claim it.  By the same token, if you become disabled once you've left, there is no state help from anywhere.  The only reason I can think that this hasn't been ruled upon at European level is that there are just too few of us who are thus affected.

    P & O ferries

    in Travelling to/from France

    Posted

    [quote user="Frederick"]A   re-cycling  team  I suppose !
    [/quote][:)]

    Better than chucking it in the bin.

    Every year when we break camp after LM, a team of travellers appears as if by magic to look through all the stuff (and there is loads of it) left behind by the - mainly British - campers.  I always separate out anything I think might be useful (food and kit) that I don't want any more and give it to them when they go by.  For others it seems to be a mission to prevent them from getting hold of anything - to the extent that some even burn things they don't have room for in their cars or no longer want, or othewise make it unuseable (I will not go into detail, but the methods are often unpleasant.)  Always seems a terrible waste to me.

    What did you do with your wedding ring?

    in Other Topics

    Posted

    I hate wearing jewellery of any sort.  Mine is in a little pot in the top drawer of a chest of drawers.  I wore it on my wedding day and never again since.  Clearly this was a sign that our marriage would fail but heck, like Idun, 38 years later, here we both still are, in spite of great efforts on the part of fate to b*gger our relationship up!  A meaningless bit of metal, imo, but I haven't flogged the thing in deference to the o/h.  My engagement ring's gone though after some past financial crisis or other![:D]

    Breathalyzer (non)availability

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    [quote user="tonyinfrance"]

    We're off to the Mayenne area for the weekend - anyone know where inexpensive breathalyzers might be found between Dieppe and Gorron?

    Thanks

    [/quote]The given wisdom on here seems to be the local supermarket but we have yet to spot one in SuperU or Intermarche locally.  They want 8.50 for a single test on Amazon France so I confess that, as yet, I have not invested as there seems to be some sort of leeway until the autumn.

    Recepteur embrayage

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    To belt and brace the thing I e-mailed the pic to the garage and they are happy it's what I need.  It's been complicated by the fact that he replaced the entire unit and updated it so it's not quite the correct model year any more.  Thanks so much for your help, as per.[:)]

    Le Mans Classic

    in Driving in France

    Posted

    I think you picked a truly vintage year in terms of competition on track - some of those guys were really trying this year.  Post the little "argument" between the Lotus XV and the Squeely during the Le Mans start, I reckon that there must have been 20 people round the little Lotus, plastering it with duck/t tape and pulling out the body panels to get it going again for a top 20 finish.  Summed up the whole weekend for me in terms of the spirit of the meeting.

    Yep, love the T70s (both versions) and all the other cars of my childhood.  The main gap for me in the entry was David Piper whose green 250LM made me fall in love with sports cars from a very early age.  Also a shame that both 917s failed to make the final race, as did the wonderful ugly-beautiful Inaltera which is always plagued with problems anyway.

    If you come back next time I'll fix you up with ACO grandstand tickets as I'm entitled to 6 for the Classic.  As I don't move very well and can't get up from floor level, I now have a little camp bed from Decathlon which opens up in a couple of seconds - it has really made a difference to the camping thing.  See you in 2 years time then! Glad you enjoyed the bikkies.[:D]

    How to translate 'assiette dégustation'?

    in French Language

    Posted

    [quote user="idun"]

    So I would say Tasting Platter: a delightful medley of.........   and then a list of the things that will go on the platter, which would hopefully merit the 'delightful' description. That's what I would do.

     

    Menus these days are full of flowery language.

    [/quote]I remember having to create a whole raft of menus for a food court bid we did years ago.  Doing 100 plus definitions of various dishes tried our imaginations to the limit and at one point somebody came up with the wonderful "a host of golden fries."  At least we were able to have a good laugh as we were getting bored rigid by this time.  Second only to doing a wine merchant's list every year - 2000-odd different descriptions for wine.[:-))][:-))]
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