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Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote:
What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) A it wasn't me gov, it was my wife seriously though I'm only talking about 90MPH (140kph?). BTW do the cameras know if its raining? -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! www.suffolkvikings.org.uk |
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Ian Spare wrote:
Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote: What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) Quite. We were passed by a whole stream of English and Dutch cars between Cluses and Geneva on Saturday doing speeds around, I would guess, 180kph. We wondered how many of the English cars would make it to Calais without passing a camera. You forgot the belgians and the (one that I noticed) germans. I doubt my freelander td4 with four passengers and a roof box could get to 180kph, at least without a long runup and no traffic in the way, which didn't happen on saturday the 3rd. -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! www.suffolkvikings.org.uk |
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Im not familier with the route down to Frnace nowadays however,I live in
Holland & used to frequently cruise the autobahns to Austria & I would say that 90%+ of the drivers pulled up by the Polizi in Germany are Dutch. The Dutch tend to forget there the many restricted speed zones , haha !! May also be of course the German Polizi getting there own back for The Dutch cops waiting at the border booking the germans blasting upto the Dutch beaches in the summer !! Nowadays I go by train, virtually guaranteed door to door 10hrs & relaxing :-) BTW . I was going to say If you want to see how we deal with Cameras in Holland check this out www.tuttut.nl but have appeared to have moved on been taken down ;-) Nigel Ian Spare wrote: Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote: What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) Quite. We were passed by a whole stream of English and Dutch cars between Cluses and Geneva on Saturday doing speeds around, I would guess, 180kph. We wondered how many of the English cars would make it to Calais without passing a camera. Ian |
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"MoonMan" wrote in message ... | Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote: | What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road | rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) | | A it wasn't me gov, it was my wife Some of the cameras in France take the photos from the front, so the Christine Hamilton tactic wouldn't work here! ... at least, not in most cases ;o) Besides, doesn't the Napoleonic Code in France still say that an accused is presumed guilty until proven innocent? Pete |
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"MoonMan" wrote in message ... Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote: What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) A it wasn't me gov, it was my wife Some of the cameras in France take the photos from the front, so the Christine Hamilton tactic wouldn't work here! ... at least, not in most cases ;o) Besides, doesn't the Napoleonic Code in France still say that an accused is presumed guilty until proven innocent? Actually I wasn't kidding, I only rarely went over 130kph the other half OTOH kept creeping over 90mph and humphing when if I noticed and pointed it out. The odd thing is that she drives slower than me at home, possibly because her car ( a peugeot 206 cc) displays her mpg and she pays for the petrol, but more likely because she commutes the busy way on the A14 and I go the the other way -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! www.suffolkvikings.org.uk |
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MoonMan wrote:
Ian Spare wrote: Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote: What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) Quite. We were passed by a whole stream of English and Dutch cars between Cluses and Geneva on Saturday doing speeds around, I would guess, 180kph. We wondered how many of the English cars would make it to Calais without passing a camera. You forgot the belgians and the (one that I noticed) germans. I doubt my Not really, it was UK and Dutch plates I saw. Some Dutch are pretty bad for this, they tear across Switzerland at 160kph as well even though it's a 120 limit and then carry on into Germany where they become slow traffic until they reach the restricted sections at 130 which they proceed to ignore. It's especially annoying if you've just managed to pass 8 Dutch cars doing 160kph in the outside line only to find them steaming past you 2 minutes later in a restricted section. The Belgians do the same but aren't quite as bad. freelander td4 with four passengers and a roof box could get to 180kph, at least without a long runup and no traffic in the way, which didn't happen on saturday the 3rd. It was pretty quiet at 3 in the afternoon but I'm sure it was pretty busy in the morning. Ian |
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Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote:
Im not familier with the route down to Frnace nowadays however,I live in Holland & used to frequently cruise the autobahns to Austria & I would say that 90%+ of the drivers pulled up by the Polizi in Germany are Dutch. The Dutch tend to forget there the many restricted speed zones , ha.. I hadn't read this when I just posted the comment about the Dutch. I thought I wasn't imagining it - There's a couple of sections between Basel and Heidelberg I would say it's easy to lose track of if you're in a restricted section or not though but there's a sizeable percentage who are plainly ignoring the limits. Ian |
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Ian Spare wrote:
MoonMan wrote: Ian Spare wrote: Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote: What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) Quite. We were passed by a whole stream of English and Dutch cars between Cluses and Geneva on Saturday doing speeds around, I would guess, 180kph. We wondered how many of the English cars would make it to Calais without passing a camera. You forgot the belgians and the (one that I noticed) germans. I doubt my Not really, it was UK and Dutch plates I saw. Some Dutch are pretty bad for this, they tear across Switzerland at 160kph as well even though it's a 120 limit and then carry on into Germany where they become slow traffic until they reach the restricted sections at 130 which they proceed to ignore. It's especially annoying if you've just managed to pass 8 Dutch cars doing 160kph in the outside line only to find them steaming past you 2 minutes later in a restricted section. The Belgians do the same but aren't quite as bad. freelander td4 with four passengers and a roof box could get to 180kph, at least without a long runup and no traffic in the way, which didn't happen on saturday the 3rd. It was pretty quiet at 3 in the afternoon but I'm sure it was pretty busy in the morning. I was coming home, left Les 2 Alpes about 8:15, got to Calais about 19:45, it was busy for an autoroute, but not like the M25 the only real problem we had was caused by an accident at Rheims, 7k of slo moving trafic before the peage, the road reports for traffic going to the resorts sounded horrific though. first time i've seen most of France covered in snow. -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! www.suffolkvikings.org.uk |
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MoonMan wrote:
I was coming home, left Les 2 Alpes about 8:15, got to Calais about 19:45, it was busy for an autoroute, but not like the M25 the only real problem :-) I picked my girlfriends brother up from Geneva on the 23/12 and I was moaning about heavy traffic and he thought I was taking the mickey as we were still moving along the autoroute at 100kph. It's easy, and preferable, to forget about UK traffic, it seems worse each time I go to there. we had was caused by an accident at Rheims, 7k of slo moving trafic before the peage, the road reports for traffic going to the resorts sounded horrific though. first time i've seen most of France covered in snow. |
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Nigel (Remove NOSPAM) wrote:
What's the rush ? What's it matter if it takes 15hrs on the road rather than 10, take it easy & you wont have to worry . :-) What's it matter? Er....if I leave work in Leeds at 5pm Friday and get a 10:30 ferry out of Dover, which arrives in Calais at about 01:00 local time, I can be skiing in Chamonix or Alpe d'Huez or Tignes by 10:30. I wouldn't reccommend doing more than about 90-95mph in France, but if it takes you 15hrs from Calais to the mountains, you lose a day's skiing, simple as that! Al |
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