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firstclass67

03/8/2013 at 6:39pm
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We're staying near the Puy du Dome and today we thought we'd drive up it on the toll road my green guide told me about.

My Green guide is from 2004.

You can't drive up it now cos there is a very expensively revamped little train to take you up instead.

But - they wont allow dogs over 20kg and my BC is about 23kg. I have a bad knee problem, and my OH is too ill to walk up and we don't like leaving the dog at the campsite, even though he is very good and lies under the van while we are away. They turned away 40 euros for the 4 of us! Grrrr.

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Ninja 47

03/8/2013 at 7:00pm
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Im speechless.

Simon100

03/8/2013 at 7:33pm
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A lot can happen in 9 years! Time to get a new guide perhaps?

Crach

03/8/2013 at 7:38pm
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Did they have a weigh scales for the dog?

Just think George and Dave helped pay for that train with their very generous increase in the UK payments to Brussels

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firstclass67

03/8/2013 at 7:44pm
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Guess thats why they can afford to turn away 40 euros then, Crach!

Not they didn't weigh him, a staff member looked at him and said he was too big and I don't have the confidence to argue.

I suppose you can't expect much else from a country that will shoo customers spending money out of a shop because its lunch time!

Crach

03/8/2013 at 7:56pm
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Its normally dogs or no dogs, first I've heard of no Heavy/Big Dogs except in small hotel rooms.

As for the lunchtime curfew, it is one of the great pleasures of living in France unless you have an urgent need to buy something specific as the shop closes just as you arrive as happened to my wife only today. So my lunchtime was lost in an explosion of expletives as my wife decided to change French culture for the better.

firstclass67

03/8/2013 at 8:18pm
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Lol. We were in a Bricolage superstore near Boulogne two weeks ago, looking for stuff to repair the driveshaft (dont ask!) and we got shooed out, and two years ago I was in a chocolatiere in Le Touquet with lots of kiddies desperate to spend their last few euros, but the two women in the shop were more keen to have us out of the shop than they were to take our money! U gotta love them!

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03/8/2013 at 8:39pm
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It was Mr Bricolage today!!

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Yes the French are civilised,lunch breaks sundays off (decreasing) and a lack of MC vomits.(there spreading aswell).

Love there desire to be a proud nation instead of an American off-shoot but thats changing over the years...

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03/8/2013 at 10:14pm
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If you don't like the sensible way the French treat their lunch hour, as a quiet period to enjoy their food and have a rest, then don't go to France!!

Why do some of the British try to foist their ideas onto other cultures?

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04/8/2013 at 6:07am
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I posted a warning on here in 2010 that the road was closed, though at that time I didn't know that it wouldn't reopen. Shame you missed it though - but I don't think I would pay forty euros for the privilege of going up on a train. It's a stiff walk though but when we walked up there were plenty of places to stop and lots of seats. However, we did it on a cool day and I wouldn't like to walk up in the heat of summer.

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04/8/2013 at 6:46am
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I thought a return ticket for the rack train was only 10 euros?. We went up the year the buses were running for the last time and I think the return fare was 7.50 euros so not a bad hike in the fare considering all the work that has been done and not bad at all if you compare it with the £27 it costs to use the Snowdon Mountain Railway. I would certainly pay to go up again. I like to walk but at 30 degrees plus its not an option in August when we holiday.

firstclass67

04/8/2013 at 7:04am
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Yes - 10 euros return is right but there are 4 of us hence they turned away 40 euros.

I wish I could have walked up, though as it is around 35` here I think it would be a bit hard, but I have damaged my knee and at the moment can barely hobble, and my OH has been very ill for a while now and cannot walk much at all. This from two people who used to do 20 mile walks in the Yorkshire / Durham dales is very distressing!

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04/8/2013 at 8:56am
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We went up on train last year. OAPs and I think it was 8 euros each. A long train ride, about half an hour or so if I remember correctly. It was a fantastic modernistic train and a spectacular ride. We considered it really good value. Commented at the time would have been 4 times that in the UK. Were so impressed we splashed out on souvenir book. I think you really missed out on that despite 40 euros.
Re French lunchtime closing. My opinion very civilised.

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Quote: Originally posted by Ninja 47 on 03/8/2013
Yes the French are civilised,lunch breaks sundays off (decreasing) and a lack of MC vomits.(there spreading aswell).
Love there desire to be a proud nation instead of an American off-shoot but thats changing over the years...

Hear Hear Ninja!!!! that's why we love it!... 9 days & counting

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