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Do you expect free WIFI when holidaying in France ?


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"You lot are beyond help."

But we didn't start this - you did.  Nor did we ask for your help, somehow, and without your help, we've managed to sort our lives out just fine, doing what we want on holiday, and getting there in the manner which suits us best.

Yes, and indeed,  what is wrong with B-on-T ?  I had my first job there... and have known much worse places.

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[quote user="woolybanana"]Welcome back, Betty; was just wondering what had happened to you as we miss you happy, chirpie Charlotte comments here![/quote]

I've been enjoying the delights of a fortnight in a socialist Utopia, Wooly. At a rather historic time, as it transpired.???
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"I just don't see the point of driving 20 hrs from Burton on Trent to the South of France (with a Sat Nav guiding you) towing a gigantic fridge only to pitch it up, set up your WIFI, turn on a switch to have a satellite dish pop up so that you can watch Eastenders whilst constantly being bitten by mosquitoes to the noise of other Brits doing the same. "

Neither do I.

So I don't do it.

But, I don't make snidy comments about those that do see the point and do do it.

I spend two or three months each summer trundling all over France (very slowly) in an ancient campervan. It does about 15 miles to the gallon and bits keep falling off and have to be picked up and stuck back on. I spend a week or more getting from one end of France to the other, I have to go into second gear on the motorway going over the Pyrenees. You probably don't see the point in doing that either, you probably get into your snazzy motor and blast the length of France in a couple of hours. But I absolutely love doing it my way. I see places, I meet people (quite a lot of mechanics as it happens, but not only), I come back restored and excited about life again, it's what I work all year for.

Live and let live, old bean. You spend far too much time voyeuring into what other people do and what turns them on, it's not healthy - you need to find what turns you on, and do it, then you won't bother so much about what anyone else is up to.
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Hear, hear ET, that's from both Mrs JJ and me!! [B]

I'm not really a fan of camper vans, but I can see the reason that you like them and long may that difference last. It would be a boring place if we all thought/did the same init already! For a start either everyone or no-one would touch the new fivers would they? [:'(]

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With the exception of the UK and the Netherlands the problem with Sat Navs in other European countries is the Post Code system.

In the first two countries at most each code will cover just a few properties, input the house number nad the sat nave will take you there.

In France, the Post Code often covers several villages. Plus, the name of our 'road' shows up differently on sat navs to its official name.
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ET said:

"you probably get into your snazzy motor and blast the length of France"

That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my Skoda Yeti.

Well apart from.....

http://www.practicalcaravan.com/reviews/tow-car/29840-skoda-yeti

I think I need to sell it and get something snazzy... LOL

I am thinking of an Octavia Estate VRS.
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Your new Skoda will have Wi-Fi plus probably a raft of other pointless and unecessary devices that I dont understand.

 

You will have to be trained in evasive and protective driving like the bodyguards of my middle eastern clients were to learn how to swoop all over the motorway,  randomly accelerate and decelerate fiercely etc so as to never be beside another vehicle for any length if time, in their case it was to foil kidnap or assasination attempts, in your case it will be to prevent someone downloading a torrent of sh1te and you getting fined €1500 by Hadopiand your vehicle seized.

 

Speaking of downloading torrents of sh1te, I have found the person responsable for the illegal download from my wifi denying the poor artist/Producer their droits de l'auteur, he was bemused because he said he had already downloaded scores of movies, when we looked in detail we found that they had all been Hollywood blockbusters or other countries, this was a French film [:'(] - And the masterpiece that leaves me supposedly liable to a fine of not €7500 but €75000 if you believe the marketting of the Hadopi protection racketteers (the sellers of the software protection)? - Camping 3 [:(]

 

If I were to fall for their scare tactics and actually believe that I could be put away for 5 years and be fined €75000 I would be pig sick to think that it was for downloading drivel like that [:D]

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"When staying in a gîte, b&b, hotel or whatever in France do you expect to have free WIFI ?"

I need to keep in touch with work, usually for up to 2/3 hours in each day, so for me, yes. And it needs to work well. I won't book somewhere that doesn't provide this. I don't mind paying a higher up-front rental.
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I've never had a phone contract only PAYG without data but if I were going to be spending a holiday in France - or pretty much anywhere come to that - I'd probably want want full internet access 24/7 regardless of where I actually was and not just in my accommodation so I'd buy a local data SIM.

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