Take your log book, insurance, driving license. You will go faster if you buy an etag for motorway tolls. This enables you to go to the toll booth line where the gates open automatically in front of you so you just sail through, actually drive through, without stopping.
Normally in a car bought or hired in the UK you will have a right hand drive car. Therefore when you come to a toll booth, designed for left hand drive cars, if you don't have a passenger it's a real nuisance trying to lean across to pay. The tag attached to your rear view mirror in the middle of the front windscreen is recognised so no problem.
On the ferry you may wish to look for a seat with a power socket. Log on before everybody else does because when the ferry is busy you lose the connection.
What else could you pack? Your own coffee maker, some coffee capsules, and the smallest fridge, designed to hold two bottles of milk, or one of milk and one of water.
If you plan to eat restaurant meals, you might take your home weighing machine.
What else do you need? Headlamp deflectors. You'll need to remove them back in the UK.
For France you need a safety vest in the car, one of those orange or yellow tops which glow in the dark to alert drivers that you are there if you have to get out of the car in the case of an accident or even just running out of petrol or checking your car is OK.
Plus spare headlamp bulb. And a pair of disposable breathalysers.
Have a safe journey.
Angela Lansbury B A Honours, author, travel writer, speaker.
Normally in a car bought or hired in the UK you will have a right hand drive car. Therefore when you come to a toll booth, designed for left hand drive cars, if you don't have a passenger it's a real nuisance trying to lean across to pay. The tag attached to your rear view mirror in the middle of the front windscreen is recognised so no problem.
On the ferry you may wish to look for a seat with a power socket. Log on before everybody else does because when the ferry is busy you lose the connection.
What else could you pack? Your own coffee maker, some coffee capsules, and the smallest fridge, designed to hold two bottles of milk, or one of milk and one of water.
If you plan to eat restaurant meals, you might take your home weighing machine.
What else do you need? Headlamp deflectors. You'll need to remove them back in the UK.
For France you need a safety vest in the car, one of those orange or yellow tops which glow in the dark to alert drivers that you are there if you have to get out of the car in the case of an accident or even just running out of petrol or checking your car is OK.
Plus spare headlamp bulb. And a pair of disposable breathalysers.
Have a safe journey.
Angela Lansbury B A Honours, author, travel writer, speaker.
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