Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

gfplux

This forum is called Living abroad tips and hints for money savers
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When driving through Europe it may be worth a detour through Luxembourg to fill up with Fuel.
Today I bought diesel and it was €0.817 per litre. @ exchange at 1.10 that is £0.74. I noticed that normal Petrol was €0.959 which is £0.87. I think that they are good prices. As the Government fixes the price this is the price all over the country.
What does it cost where you are.?

Merrywidow

Thanks Donny-gal - sounds very tempting - my body is once again screaming out for some sunshine. We had snow in T/Wells last night, thick and fast, but followed by rain - bye bye snow. I am quite flexible on the tickets - I have 5000 airmiles ticking over at the moment. Will be using 750 for a trip to Amsterdam late March for Sister in Law's birthday. (That's just an excuse to see my little nieces - I adore them) You would not know it, but the Dutch are BIG on birthdays.

donny-gal

gfplux wrote: »

This forum is called Living abroad tips and hints for money savers
so:-
When driving through Europe it may be worth a detour through Luxembourg to fill up with Fuel.
Today I bought diesel and it was €0.817 per litre. @ exchange at 1.10 that is £0.74. I noticed that normal Petrol was €0.959 which is £0.87. I think that they are good prices. As the Government fixes the price this is the price all over the country.
What does it cost where you are.?

I managed between .975 and .955 in France for Deisel, where we are in Spain at the moment it is .875

When at Verdun a couple of years ago we went to Luxembourg for a day trip and got filled up with diesel and other duty free.

DG

gfplux

Donny-gal
Luxembourg has the lowest levels of Tax/Duty on Fuel, Tobacco and Booze. Large numbers of French, Germans and Belgium's come across the border to buy. In the summer it seems as if every Dutch person going on holiday passes by Luxembourg. In fact be very careful on the Luxembourg motorways as there are often lines outside the service stations blocking the slow lane in the summer. there have been a number of accidents and although extra lanes have been added the problem still occurs.

droopsnout

Hi, peeps.

Have a connection thanks to a good friend (one not on this thread!) and can report a journey low price of 0.929 euros for diesel, found in Abbeville.

We're now on our second stop on our tour of the UK, and return to our first tomorrow.

Snow ... snow ... snow!!! Fell on Thursday and is still here in North Yorkshire.

donny-gal

Glad you managed to get on line Droopsnout. Seems you have milder weather than you would have at home atm. Hope you are enjoying Yorkshire both North & South.

Had some really good weather, but it is only managing about 15 today, though the sun has broken through and that always helps.

DG

gfplux

As my daughter is leaving on a school trip to Barcelona this allows us to leave for a combined Valentine and Birthday treat of two nights to Schluchsee in the Black Forest. This is the Hotel - http://www.parkhotel-flora.de/englisch/hotel/hotel.html
we hope it measures up to the description and photo's.
The web cam in the village shows quite a bit of snow. http://www.schluchsee.de/schluchsee/ferienort-schluchsee/livecam.html It is about 360 kilometres so hopefully a simple journey of 4 hours or so without too much snow!. My wife is a fantastic navigator but having a Tom Tom GPS allows us to talk about more important things than I have missed the turning! What a wonderful thing they are. (the GPS I mean!!)
I don't know whether anyone on this board has visited the Black Forest but our past trips have always been wonderful.

droopsnout

Where has everyone gone?

gfplux, I love the Schwarzwald and have lots of happy memories of it from both schooldays and a family holiday, not to mention a coach trip I was on which stopped at Titisee in 1972 (I think).

Hello to all from our latest stop in Lancashire.

With luck, this will soon all be over and we can go home ...

seven-day-weekend

Hey, I'm here....been out for the first time in a month and had too much vino tinto at Amador's bar.

Two expat families returning to the UK from our village this week (and we only have about twelve expat families - the one couple have no work and a huge mortgage and are having to go to the UK as their chances of finding work to pay said mortgage are slightly more than in rural Andalucia - they are going to live with his parents - the woman's parents who also live in the village are going back so that they can still see their grandsons - fortunately they have enough money to buy a house.

Expect to see more going back in the future.

droopsnout

Bad times indeed ... Fits in with d-g's findings.