More bl**dy bureaucracy
After hesitating for some time, my wife and I have decided to go to France to see our daughter and her family. It’s her 50th birthday next week so we thought we ought to make the effort despite all the paraphernalia about COVID precautions.
We haven’t been over to France for nearly 2 years and, in the meantime, there has been Brexit. That means that our Euro number plates are no longer valid. So it’s time to sort out a GB plate. Except that, at the end of next week, it’s all change. Apparently, Boris and co think that GB plates are not inclusive enough for NI so we will need a UK plate instead! So, what to do? Attach a GB plate and hope that a gendarme doesn’t get stroppy at the time we come back, attach a UK plate (if anyone has them) and hope that a gendarme doesn’t get stroppy when we arrive or fix a GB one and replace it next week?
As it happens, and I’m tempting fate here, whenever we’ve been pulled over by a gendarme in the past, they only want to see our permets de conduire and our daughter reckons that they only stop us so that they can practice their English.