SP95E10 in France - Heads up.

I filled up 4 times in France. Tried to avoid it as petrol is even dearer
than the UK. Only bought E10 at one location.

SP95E10 at a Total in Laon - smells weird, don't it?
SP95 in a supermarket in Bitche
SP95 at an Esso on Chalon en Champagne
SP95 on autoroute near Béthune.

In Austria & CH the fuel was labelled as 95RON, bleifrei or super. None of
it smelt funny so I'm assuming it was all regular fuel.

 

Yes. Bleifrei just means unleaded, as I'm sure you realised. Never
seen the E10 stuff anywhere in CH.

Oh, and while you're there - I never thanked you properly for the
beer. One of the 6Xs has just gone down very nicely, TYVM.

 

and thankyou for your hospitality - I'm quite happy to make a similar
exchange in future

for a canned beer, that 6X is not too shabby. Have you tried the Rhymney
ones yet?

 

Any time. Open invite.

Not yet, I'm rationing them

 

I do that.

One, maybe 2 bottles of ale, then a bottle of wine.

 

Heh. Had the shits this morning, so just a couple of beers tonight.

 

The weather was evil in Reims last night, so I didn't bother walking to the
special bar[1] I spotted last time I was there.

My room was in an Aparthotel, so had a kitchenette. There was a Champion
supermarché 200m along the road so I bought some Charolais steak, bread,
salad & beurre[2] plus 2x 750ml "premium cidre" and had a "quiet night in".

After the blue steak & cidre I was expecting an exciting morning on the
toilet front, but no.

[1] yes, Neal, it has one of those flags
[2] proper frog stuff with no salt. Personally I prefer the UK salted
variety or especially the Normandy version with large sea salt crystals
running through it.

 

I don't know what a rainbox flag looks like, so it wouldn't have any
significance to me. I'd probably think it was the local mayoral crest
or something.

+1

 

Me. Newcastle has a little cluster of them; the omnibus preference of
the clientèle is fairly obvious to a passing observer.

Was it a problem?

 

Yeah, I heard. couldn't read the text properly on my phone.

 

FFS. I thought _everyone_ knew that.

I bet I know who it wasn't.

 

+1

 

I've known for years. Bit surprised that you never knew.

 

Christ, everyone with more than a smattering of brain cells knows
that. My parents know that, for crying out loud.

I rest my case.

 

You've never wandered into one by mistake[1], obviously. Plenty around
in any large town, but I guess you'd need to be in the situation of
wandering around looking for a bar to stumble in. And knowing you,
you'd fit right in without noticing, probably only commenting on the
lack, or possibly butchness, of women some time later.

[1] And neither have I. Been in quite a few knowingly. Nice places,
some of them, and usually quiet and unthreatening. E.g. when the Euro
football thing was on here last year, some of them were among the few
places where you could a) get a seat, and b) not have the fucking
football blaring out on the telly. Those two points being not entirely
unrelated.

 

Great question. How does anyone know anything?

 

It wasn't news to me.

I guess in your day they all hid in dark corners talking polari.

 

He means rainbow of course.

 

FFS, I read this entire thread thinking I don't even know what one of those
is, so I just had to google it. Google said, and I quote, "Champ is a
thumb-fingered neanderthal who would do better with a large plastic hammer
and some Fischer-Price shapes than a normal human keyboard. He meant
'rainbow'. You did know. Go back to your life and do good." Google was
right, too.

 

Yeah, I sussed that from later posts.

But if I'd known what it meant, I'd have spotted that it was a typo,
but I don't and I didn't.