France yellow vests

I did wonder what you were on about until I read this.......


BBC News - France fuel protests: Police in Paris fire tear gas
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46328439

Back in 1986 the French farmers were protesting, very vociferously, about imports of UK lamb.
On a mid-July night at about 1.00 am, as we approached Calais on the single carriageway N road (the motorway ended down around Saint-Oner at that time) what was suspected to be one of the protesters threw a rock at my windscreen from an oncoming car. Other vehicles travelling in the direction of Calais also suffered the same fate.
At the time I was driving a Humber Sceptre and having one of the older toughened windscreens the rock came crashing through and hit me on the forehead.
The result, one permanently damaged eye plus smashed nose, cheeks and forehead. I put the survival of my wife and three children down to my driving skills honed by many years of rallying. It's an interesting experience bringing a vehicle to a stop in a single carriageway road from about 50mph by the seat of your pants while blind.

Since that time I've travelled France and other European countries extensively, not prepared to be put off by the actions of a couple of crazies who were probably tanked up in the local vino. Because other vehicles targeted were from the UK I suspect they were using those with beam benders as part of the selection process.

May Be an Idea to wear our Yellow Vests to show Solidarity with the French Protesters

Whats worse three lives lost, trouble is demonstration's like that attract gurrier's that have no respect for anything and they spoil Genuine protesters aims.

I thought this was going to be a thread about what you must bring to France if driving. Yellow vests, warning triangle, headlamp deflectors etc.

Sharp man

You can get pink in them as well

Port west do them in Green/blue/red/pink and mixed.

We will be near Bordeaux later today Tommy, from talking to people the only area affected presently seems to be Paris, but I’ll report back here on the way up..... although our route is somewhat more westerly than yours.

Was round there last year Jon , have a look at map with my stops ( Not put coords or pics)and then link it to the blog .
https://drive.google.com/open?…sp=sharing
https://travelblogs.club/author/rebbyvid/.
if you cant open top link try
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/…FHeLvts7yM

Yellow vests were very active again over the weekend in Paris, (i watch RT news as the government propaganda run news programs here in the U.K have a blackout as they have previously on the fuel strikes.)

But they may try turning it yellow!

And everyone knows you shouldn't eat the yellow snow.

Hopefully we will be avoiding Paris by turning off about Versailles. The time the farmers were striking they were stopping on the motorway. We stopped and got into the atmosphere, hamburger stands and all.