It's holiday time

[molly]

When I got off the ferry the traffic was not good but got worse. The bike boiled waiting at tolls on the A28 (this is new it was working perfectly) and the traffic was so bad that it took me 7.5 hours to get home (on a bike with no support for my left leg to change gear....

Have you considered Télépéage? We always talk about it when we hit a huge queue at the tolls and watch cars going straight through the télépéage booth but we always forget about it when we get back to the UK.

[Suff]

I've thought abut it Molly, but I really don't use it enough.

Perhaps when I retire....

[molly]

I have just checked it out and it is not that expensive. Apart from the initial set up costs it is 6 euros a year for admin then a maximum of 10 Euros for using it (5 Euros a month to a maximum of 10 for the year) but if you are using it on a bike you still have to go through a manned booth and hand the contraption over so that you are not charged as a car. Saves you fumbling for cash or cards but no quicker really. You would think in this day and age they could sort out a transponder that would tell the computer it was on a motorbike.

Might get one for our trip in September.