I have just been helping a truly tech-rejecting local friend to flog his Peugot 404 Plateau on the internet.
I was shocked for two things: one that anyone can still not operate an email, the vageries of Serre Chevalier’s internet system notwithstanding – if you’re reading this on a computer you really are part of the tech elite, believe it or not.
Secondly – and this I really can’t belive – this tech ludite makes up for his lack of WWW savey by knowing a load about cars (not my forte).
In dealing with his car sale he told me France doesn’t have a super car marque. Can this be true?
Suddenly France has gone down in my estimation if this is true, we might have Wenslydale, but we have Aston Martin, Lotus and some lovely Bristols to brag about.
Buggati, he said, was Italian with a factory in France so that didn’t count.
So prove me wrong, or prove him wrong – is there a French super car? And if so what is it? Do it for the reputation of la pathetic Republic (if it’s true).
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You think Rick’s had it tough, my internet went phut, or at least my Orange provided “live-box” did, so I’ve been all like lonely, the fact no one wrote to me whilst I was down, apart from some ad notifications from some Land Rover forum I joined ages ago hasn’t made me feel more popular either.
If you have to deal with an internet in France steel yourself, we have a package of mobile, land-line and interweb all bundled into one expensive and temperamental lump, the mobile was fine, but the other two died at the same time.
So calling the help desk with the mobile you first listen to a recording telling you all the solutions to your internet problems can be found online and you should visit such and such site.
The second bit of the message tells you calls are free from a land-line.
It’s nice to know, but when your land-line and internet are down – which is why you are calling the help desk – about as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike.
Get this, you have to take the “live-box” down to Briancon to change it, they don’t drive you a new one up in a van or send someone in a uniform to fix it for you.
As my wife pointed out Serre Chevalier is not Hong Kong, but then again it’s a lot less polluted and not 82% humidity.
Swings and roundabouts.
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This is the Isle de Roses Service Station next to the péage at Grenoble. It would have been nice to feed the kids before heading up into the mountains but no, no food until 7pm. The best we were offered was a ‘PastaBox’ from the fridge which we could then microwave.
Instead we bought a sandwich and some bread with a little box of Vache qui Rit. 10.60€! The appeal of this 3rd World Country is wearing a bit thin. Quaint and quirky is ok, but couple it with bloody expensive and it just gets annoying.
To top it all the guy behind the jump was just horrible to the Missus. Highly not recommended.
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