MrCanary Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Don't worry mods, this is not an advert...With the present terrible exchange rate, I was wondering if there might be an opening for my wife and I to use a van on our trips to our maison secondaire, offering to buy and deliver cheaper UK groceries to ex-pats living along our French route? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 Yes, Mel, please buy a house near me so that you can do my shopping in the UK and I can pay you in pound sterling![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 sweet17 - sadly I cannot afford another house in France. But if I could, I imagine you would be a very nice neighbour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 [kiss] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 It will take some carefull calculations, but I was pondering the other day.....Would it be worthwhile to do a single big trip up to UK every 6 months or so, and do food shopping in the Dover Tesco?Its a long journey, but I have an economical fridge/freezer van that can carry quite a lot. Given the low pound value, assuming I used my French earned money, I believe there would be a decent saving to be made. Hopefully I will be back to UK for a few days early this year, so I will make an effort to work out things, and find out the prices of various shopping items for comparison to here.Need to calculate possible savings to be made for the shoping, minus the fuel and ferry costs for the trip....I dont think the saving wou work out to be massive but I reckon it would be worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCanary Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 dave - interestingly and amazingly, petrol and diesel are now cheaper in England than France! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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