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Advice for a French Virgin
Its wonderful over there, wide open roads, much less traffic, great back roads
a cafe in ever village.
best bits of advice that come to mind.
Get a GPS, if only for the speed camera database, most european cameras seem to be little green 'pill boxs' at the side of the road. Much more difficult to see.
Petrol is a bugger to find on a Sunday. The french have a lot of unmanned fuel stations, but British chip & pin cards wont work in them.
Take fuel on whenever you can.
On Tom Tom you can add Points of intrest to the data on the card, this way you can always check that hotels are in your area. I am not sure if you can do this with camp sites.
European bikers stick out their left leg to say thankyou, sounds strange but works when you get used to it.
As for mileage, if you stick to the motorways 400 miles is easy, but on the back roads 150 can be a long day.
Hope this helps, I'll add other thigs as I think of them
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