Hi all, im just back from a mini, tour, trip down to the Millau Bridge in southern france on the A75 autoroute.... in my 500 1.3 diesel Sport.... Lovely ride down there, went through the Euro Tunnel going and the P&O ferry for return. Averaged 69mpg according to the dash reading. Was 1,800mile round trip. I noticed diesel in france is 1.10 ish Euro per litre.... About £1.10 ish in our money. But the tolls on the Autoroutes are very expensive, 20/30 Euro per stop at the toll boothes!! but the French Autoroutes are very smooth and clean compaired to ours... Just be carefull with the narrow lanes at the booths, I caught my left front wheel on something, didnt see the mark till I washed her yesterday... The payment or ticket collection is on the left side of the car, as I travelled alone. So I had to reach through the passenger window. Any way! what a cracking bridge!, tallest vehicle bridge in the world. Plenty of viewing areas also... Cost 6 Euro one way to go over it. I must say the drivers seat in the sport 500 isnt very comfy on a long haul.... My bottom kept going through the hole in the seat, with the seat lowering only on the rear... and the steering wheel lack of reach adjustment is a problem for my arms... stretching needed... Couldnt fault the engine tho...Top class.... Thanks.....

Did I read this correct, 20/30 euros per toll? That's !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Euro is about £1 for 1 euro, ish... yes the tolls were like 10/20/30 euro, (£10/20/30) depending on distance traveled... The toll prices are on the theAA.com site for your research....

And we moan about the cost of Road Tax in this country. (partly why I'm having 1.2 @ £35 R/T).

Mollie said:

And we moan about the cost of Road Tax in this country. (partly why I'm having 1.2 @ £35 R/T).

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Brits are terrific moaners! Boohoo that Polish person over there is willing to do jobs I'd never want to do and so on and so forth

Just wait till our toll charging kicks in... pay per mile... will cripple driving!!! The national roads in France are free tho, but there slow, and quite busy, also, they go through all the towns! My next trip will prob be Switzerland and italy... but ill go through Belgium, Germany... toll free motorways... (viggnette needed in Switzerland for motorways and tolls in Italy tho)

306maxi said:

Brits are terrific moaners! Boohoo that Polish person over there is willing to do jobs I'd never want to do and so on and so forth

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They're taking up precious shelf space in my local Tesco tho! With their odd coloured bread and strange sounding sausage. I needed those shelves for stuff I might want to buy!

Mollie said:

Foreigners are ok...........In their own country!

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It's at this point that I'll point out that I'm Australian.

My next trip will prob be Switzerland and italy... but ill go through Belgium, Germany... toll free motorways...

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Ten years ago the autoroute from Luxembourg to Switzerland, via Metz and Strasbourg I seem to remember, was free. You can pop over to Trier in Germany: best Roman buildings north of the Alps. Luxembourg is a fantastic city and worth a stop all by itself: and the fuel is very cheap.

Full of foreigners though

Gooday! I have no issues with that. My sister has lived in Oz for 48 years and became a naturalised Australian long ago, and my brother moved there in 1974. So I have several Australian nephews & nieces.

Mollie said:

Gooday! I have no issues with that. My sister has lived in Oz for 48 years and became a naturalised Australian long ago, and my brother moved there in 1974. So I have several Australian nephews & nieces.

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But it's no different to someone being Polish and moving here. Polish, Australian, Japanese etc etc. We're all really the same.

Don't take me seriously

difference with polish workers and uk ones is the polish are glad to be in work and actually do what you ask them to do without huffing and puffing.

white 500 said:

difference with polish workers and uk ones is the polish are glad to be in work and actually do what you ask them to do without huffing and puffing.

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So true

Maybe they are huffing and puffing but its in polish so you don't understand it! There's a polish girl works in the barbers where I go, she does a good job but I always feel like I've been conscripted to the Russian army as she's a bit over-zealous with the clippers!

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Maybe they are huffing and puffing but its in polish so you don't understand it! There's a polish girl works in the barbers where I go, she does a good job but I always feel like I've been conscripted to the Russian army as she's a bit over-zealous with the clippers!

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No, Polish people never look all that happy! That's just normality for them I should know I've been to Poland

306maxi said:

No, Polish people never look all that happy! That's just normality for them I should know I've been to Poland

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Must admit, the ones I've noticed around here (mainly because they were speaking in Polish in Tesco or Sainsbury's) do seem a bit dour. But then if I had high hopes of a bright future in a new country and ended up renting a slightly damp terraced house in Worksop, I'd be dour too.