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We are visiting Dallas, Texas in three months' time. We've been to Dallas once before and getting around by public transport is impractical and not much fun, because everyone drives. Luckily we were ferried...
Unless I've read it wrong, an article in this week's Motorcycle News says that in France it's now illegal to have a satnav with camera site warnings under a new law that came into force on 4 January. Is...
I have attempted to translate a French press release about that country’s new decree banning all forms of speed trap detector whether reader detector or satnav locators of fixed traps.
My daughter has secured a job in Geneva for at least a year - would she be better buying a left hand drive car here in the UK and driving it over, or purchasing one in Switzerland or nearby France. She...
As I understand it, in-car satnavs and mobile phones with GPS facilities are going to be subject to the same law as radar detectors when travelling in France. It's a real nightmare.
I thought you’d like an update on a problem I referred to you a few months ago. Last summer, while driving in France, my 2003 Rover 75 Connoisseur diesel automatic emitted a cloud of black smoke and lost...
Planning to take car to France this summer. I know it runs on 5% ethenol fuel that we have here, is similar fuel availale in France or has it a higher ethenol content?
I have recently returned from Australia where I was driving a hired car. I have now received two speeding fines in the post relating to being caught on camera.
As I drove over 3600 miles in four weeks...
On a recent European motorcycle tour to Budapest, my friend and I got stopped on the German/Austrian border at Passau. We did not have the "Vignette" (autobahn toll sticker) on display so ASFNAG, the private...
Whilst motoring last month on hundreds of miles of excellent new and uncrowded roads in Spain, I was stopped by the Guardia Civil for going through a tunnel without putting my lights on. This was a very...
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