{"id":19174,"date":"2014-10-20T03:30:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=19174"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:15:44","slug":"5-things-to-avoid-when-driving-in-france-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/5-things-to-avoid-when-driving-in-france-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Simple Things To Avoid When Driving In France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\nFive simple things to avoid;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>1. Paris at rush hours<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u2013<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Rush hour is normally 8:00-10:00am &amp; \u00a05:00-8:00pm<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>2. Tolls \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Can be expensive. Check out which route is best using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viamichelin.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viamichelin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">3. Drinking<\/span> \u2013 <\/strong>France\u2019s drink driving laws are fiercer than our own; 0.5 mg per ml as opposed to 0.8 mg per ml in the UK<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>4. Speeding \u2013<\/strong><\/span> On the spot fines are expensive but further problems and fines arrive if you don\u2019t have you log book , insurance and licences documentation with you in the vehicle. In a 50kph area (our 30mph) you will be fined approximately 68e if caught doing less than 20kph over that limit. For more details check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.french-property.com\/guides\/france\/driving-in-france\/driving-offences\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> explaining offences and penalties.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>5. The French \u2013<\/strong><\/span> annual holidays of course!\u00a0 Most of France and the Netherlands are on holiday between mid July to mid August each year (due to factory closures, huge numbers take 2 weeks off in this 4 week period) This is when motorways are at their absolute busiest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Taking your first carp fishing trip to France? Take a look at our blog posts on the subject\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/category\/general-interest\/first-carp-fishing-trip-to-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five simple things to avoid; 1. Paris at rush hours \u2013\u00a0Rush hour is normally 8:00-10:00am &amp; \u00a05:00-8:00pm 2. Tolls \u2013\u00a0 Can be expensive. Check out which route is best using Viamichelin 3. Drinking \u2013 France\u2019s drink driving laws are fiercer than our own; 0.5 mg per ml as opposed to 0.8 mg per ml in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[835,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-carp-fishing-trip-to-france","category-general-interest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29417,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions\/29417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}