On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 at 17:36:35, Dave Liney wrote:

As the price of fuel
on motorway service announcement signs is no longer displayed, presumably
because of the effort required, it isn't something I'd rely on happening.

They seem to manage in France.

Talking of which, why can't we have what they have in France and
Germany, where only every other service area has petrol and food, but
the intermediate ones have a place to park, with picnic tables and loos
and possibly/probably telephones and a local information board? I
expect they are inspected at least once a day - and the loos have become
vastly cleaner in recent years, the ones we visited this year barely
smelt at all which is unusual for French loos - but they must be
infinitely cheaper than the huge service areas. Okay, so they have
those, too - and some very nice ones, like the Aire du Baie de la Somme
near Abbeville - but you can buy a sandwich (French motorway sarnies are
far nicer than their British equivalents, but not as nice as
off-motorway ones, of course) and take it 20 km down the road to have a
picnic..... or just stop for a "drain, flush and refill" if that's all
you need.
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