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Things to take with you
Passport
Driving license
Insurance (Green Card or equivalent)
Vehicle Registration Document.
Medical Form E111
Spare bulbs for vehicle
Nationality plate (GB), unless incorporated in Number plate.
Fire extinguisher
First aid kit
Warning Triangle
High Visability Jacket (in case of breakdown on Motorway)
If your 4x4 runs on LPG, do not forget to bring your adaptor with you.
Also check your holiday insurance
N.B. please note that "stick-on" Number plates are not acceptable to the French police, unless they are on a Vertical surface.
Helmets and daytime driving lights are compulsory for motorcycles.
It is advisable for all vehicles to use headlights in poor visability or heavy rain.
Speed limits
Toll Motorways in dry conditions--------------.--130kph/80mph
Toll Motorways in wet conditions----------------110kph/70mph
Non-Toll Motorways---------------------------------110kph/70mph
and dual carriageways
Other roads----------------------------------------------90kph/55mph
Built up areas-------------------------------------------50kph/30mph
UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED
A CB radio, whilst not esential, is useful. Contact "Communication 11" below, and they will give you a small discount on a CB Radio on confirmation that you have booked a tour with us.
You can buy Maps of France, including the IGN Séries Bleu 1:25000 maps and guide books of the area from Amazon.com.
If you use this link and buy, we get a small commission.
Phones
To phone the UK from France, dial 0044, then the area code, omitting the zero, and then the number.
For example, if your UK number is 01234 455789, then you would dial 0044 1234 455789.
Fuel
Unleaded (sans plomb) 95, and 98 Petrol, and Diesel fuel (Gasoil) are available at all Filling Stations, and Super is also available.
Motorway Service Stations are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Other filling station are normally open until 18.00 or 19.00 hours.
Please note that cigarettes are not on display in the motorway service areas, you must ask for them.
Pharmacies (Chemists) only sell medicines and asociated products such as Sun tan Cream. Films for cameras can be bought at book or paper shops.
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