So, tips for France such as being charged more if you sit down for coffee etc?

[BikerGraham]

One reason they use smaller measures in warmer countries is that it doesn’t warm up before you have finished it. Better to have 2 cold 25cl than one 50cl that goes warm!

Not the way I drink. Geordie boy

 

[Sapper520]

Not the way I drink. Geordie boy

Straight for the litre glass me……in Spain it’s a jug of sangria.

 

[Burgo]

Better to have 2 cold 25cl than one 50cl that goes warm!

.. and here in Granada province you get a free tapa with every drink, so you get two plates of food instead of one. We just had two rounds of a bottle of Alhambra and a glass of Rueda each; the first tapa was a pork stew in a tomato sauce with bread, the second tapa was four large albóndigas in an almond and mushroom sauce again with two generous slices of bread to mop up with. Enough for lunch for two of us, one labrador cross, one terrier cross and a bodiguero puppy. €10 plus a €1 tip made lunch €5.50 pp.

 

[SmithsInFrance]

A few supermarkets and shops open on Sunday mornings now but everything closed at lunchtime for the day.
You can’t buy cigarettes etc in a supermarket, have to go to a”tabac” which is often a bar type place.
Round here you can’t buy basic meds like paracetamol in supermarkets either ( though I think that is changing in some areas of the country?) so need to go to a pharmacie (not a parapharmacie).
Supermarkets do not have as lengthy opening hours, 8 am to 8 pm is probably the max.
Agree about the routier restaurants and the menu du jour is always good value
Enjoy

 

[varaizian]

Coffee varies enormously in France depending on how much chicory is in it.
Where as in Spain never had a bad cup.

I think you are harking back to WW2 days. They all use absolutely standard bags coffee beans nowadays!

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[Lenny HB]

I think you are harking back to WW2 days. They all use absolutely standard bags coffee beans nowadays!

A lot the working mens type cafes still use a chicory blend. If you look in the supermarkets you will see ground coffee with chicory, often in the cafe & family blends.

 

[Landy Andy]

Where do you go Landy ???

which part of you go to then

All over France. Just bimble around. Coffee is great 90% of time, and costs next to nothing, beer the same. I drink the strong Belgium stuff, and drink the small quantity's like the locals, so it doesn’t get warm. I’ve lost count of the amount of free beers I’ve had in France from locals buying for us. I don’t go to touristy parts unless I have to, and that will be off peak. I’ve have chicory coffee and maybe that is just something they provide on the through routes to Spain as they know they have no taste.

 

[Reallyretired]

OMG. Just spent a lovely 16 days merrily tipping our way around Bretagne and the west coast.

Oops

I know, I've done it for years could have saved a fortune

 

[Lenny HB]

You lot are living in the past they brought in a law that prices have to be service compri over 20 years ago.