£20 day trip return to France plus free six bottles of wine

italiastar

I'm finding diffrent reports -

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/

http://www.day-tripper.net/pricespetrol.html

Also need to take into account the current very low rate of exchange on the Euro - you'll be lucky to get 1.30 to the pound - I'd budget on 1.25 to be safe. I have a friend living in France - I'll try and get the latest prices from them.

taxiphil

I was in France last week (although not Calais) and most garages were 1.32€ / litre for unleaded, so about £1.02 - £1.03 a litre, maybe a penny or two cheaper than over here.

italiastar

Any idea on Diesel, please - I'm surprised that one of the reports I found said that it was more expensive than Petrol - seeing that many cars in France are Diesels I'd image they'd blocade the whole country if the price of Diesel increased that much.

BernadetteN

italiastar wrote: »

Any idea on Diesel, please - I'm surprised that one of the reports I found said that it was more expensive than Petrol - seeing that many cars in France are Diesels I'd image they'd blocade the whole country if the price of Diesel increased that much.

Diesel was on sale at Carrefour Calais for €1.139 a litre on 2nd February which works out at 86p per litre. It's the cheapest place for fuel in Calais and accepts UK credit cards (except for American Express) 24 hours a day.

researcher

chuckles1066 wrote: »

Yep, had a mooch about..............I particularly liked the local markets with the bread, cheese and fresh meats all uncovered and subject to flies crawling over them and the locals picking huge uncovered loaves up, squeezing them and then putting them back.

Which is why they have low levels of food poisoning and we have the highest in europe. We've made ourselves and our children so 'hygienic' that we have no resistance to any 'normal' bugs.

IamJen

:rolleyes:

moneysavingmumofone

erm very stupid question coming up...
you do need a passport dont you? (to go to france)

thewelshman_2

Top Tip for you guys who are going over,

On the road that goes to Auchan there is a Lidl, we go there to buy our wine. Not the biggest choice in the world, but at less than a euro a bottle definitely the cheapest. I buy all sorts of wine over there and tbh the wine in Lidl is very good.

JP Chenet is generally cheap in Auchan compared to anywhere else.

Eastenders own brand wine is definitely drinkable in Merlot & Syrah guises

Lidl also do a very cheap lager called finkbrau for about 3 quid a case.

Lemmy_Caution

1.) You do need a passport. 2.) JP Chenet, not that good really. Certainly not worth the effort of bringing it back from France.