Touring France

[salus.populi]

So 800-900 Euros is less than 500 Euros?

[Parveen]

We did speak to many French people while we were there, we thought the same. We made sure that we got in first with the introductions with "Nous sommes les mauvais Britanniques" (We are the bad British) passing it off as a joke. But very surprisingly, they all disagreed. We were told that the majority of French citizens also wanted to leave the EU, and that they supported Marie Le Penn. but because so many French immigrants were allowed to vote, and because of how French Politics was organised, they lost the vote. They actually envied the British.

This is absolutely not the case.

The notion that the majority of French support le Pen and want to leave the EU, but were somehow thwarted by "immigrants" is nonsense and doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

In the Presidential election last year, Macron and le Pen were pretty much neck and neck after round 1 (24% Macron, 21% le Pen). After round 2, Macron won by about a 2:1 margin (66% vs 34%).

As for these pesky immigrants, their numbers just didn't have that much of an influence on the final result. Besides which, their engagement with politics is much lower than average and is one of the problems which France faces at the moment.

After the ongoing Brexit debacle, support for the EU is now standing at around 60%.

As for envying the Brits, discussions with my neighbours and reading the local press would suggest "pitying” would be a more apt term.

[Graeme1978]

When you ‘suddenly’ decided to go to France did you have to come all the way back for your passports?

[Desert Region]

When you ‘suddenly’ decided to go to France did you have to come all the way back for your passports?

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[Darkside]

When you ‘suddenly’ decided to go to France did you have to come all the way back for your passports?

As we are currently still full EU members you don't, technically, need a passport. You need an officially recognised form of identification which can be a photocard driving licence issued by any EU member country.

[Desert Region]

As we are currently still full EU members you don't, technically, need a passport. You need an officially recognised form of identification which can be a photocard driving licence issued by any EU member country.

Will remain interesting to read said's reply.

[said]

When you ‘suddenly’ decided to go to France did you have to come all the way back for your passports?

Nope! Carry them with us whenever we go away - we never know where we will end up!

[said]

As we are currently still full EU members you don't, technically, need a passport. You need an officially recognised form of identification which can be a photocard driving licence issued by any EU member country.

We were asked for passports both on the UK side and the French side. But the funny thing is they only looked at the photographs and identified us by those alone. They never read the Passport.
On the English side after we handed in our passports - I said "I am the illegal one" The response was "I can see that, you have not signed your passport"
They never checked any of the cars - anyone could have been carrying guns, drugs, bombs or anything