UK Chip and Pin and French Petrol staions

Leclerc, Epinal, Card only pumps,worked fine, accepted PIN, handed out
fuel.

Two happy bunnies

Things are looking up for Sunday biking in France

 

Look, I spotted it, so just shut up eh !

 

It seems to depend on the physical card reader device device being used
rather than the company itself. At a supermarket near me (Champion), the
tills inside take a PIN with a UK debit card, but the till at the pumps
and the card only pump won't. This can be a bit of a pain.

Mark

 

Aye, same for me, tills at Carrefour are OK with both my Barclays Visa Debit
Card and Barclays Company Credit Card, but the unmanned pumps still don't
take either.

 

Spotted what?

Coming to Paris, are you?

 

Which reminds me - you didn't even say you were passing - could of at
least stopped off for a drink, or lunch and a swim. You'd have been
within 15 minutes of the house.

****. Roads'll be full of fucking furriners now
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Yer, sorry, we were working on very loose plans of not really knowing
where we would start and end each day, as it was we did not think we would
be stopping in Switzerland (as it turned out we stayed for 2 nights over
by Santis.

And then you could have educated me in how to use Swiss roads.

Maybe next time.

Got to share them around, there are so many good roads still to do there,
I particularly liked the Vosages

 

The missing T in he subject line.

Not this year mate.

 

<slap, slap, slap, slap>

Aaaargh!
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<checks original>

<joins in slapping>

**** noes how that happened.
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Hey no worries. Feel free to pop by another time.

Aye. Some of my all-time favourites, and just an hour away. Every time
I go up there I find still moe brilliant roads. The Black Forest, on
the other side of the Rhine valley, is also extremely good.

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Ah well, I fancied a beer. I'll have to drink one without you then, I
suppose.

 

Come to think of it, even with a Visa card from a French bank the
unmanned pumps take a seriously long time (is probably not much more
than a minute, but it seems a lot longer, especially compared to how
long it takes at eg manned tills or on the autoroute) to decide whether
they are going to accept your card or not. The lcd says something like
"call in progress", so perhaps it is making an external call to a
clearing centre rather than being linked into the supermarket's network
directly, which presumably has faster links to the outside world. It
still shouldn't take *that* long.

Dull, me?

Mark

 

Something to celebrate ?

 

YTC#1 wrote:

Well, I've not yet had the time to wet the baby's head.

 

We were going to cross back to Germany, but it was hot, there were queues
at the border so we didn't bother.

Strange though, no queues to get in and out at Lichenstein (sp) and
Austria

 

Of course, if you'd had a chance to speak to a local you'd have found
out all the best ways to get around without waiting in sodding queues
on motorway border crossing ;-)

It's the krauts, mainly, that cause problems. Dunno why, but they do
seem to have a greater proportion of manned crossings, and to stop a
higher proportion of vehicles at them, than do the French.

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I was angling to see if I had missed something

Congrats, now worry about the next 18 years, and then the Uni years after
that

 

If we did stop and look at a map, a local would spring out to our aid,
they must know how hard the signage is

Thats fine then, stuff the Krauts !

 

I thought you knew? I'll drop you a line.