Gatwick

[Rods2]

Guns from Eastern Europe being illegally imported into UK & then used by criminals are an increasing problem here. We know how porus the UK border is from the number of recently reported illegal Iranian immigrants getting a tourist visa to Serbia then using the EU open borders to travel to the Channel. They are then smuggled across the Channel for a €4k to €9k fee each. It is inevitable plenty of illegal cigarettes, drugs, sex workers, weapons & cash that needs laundering & other goods will be using similar routes where the UK is a major crime operations & profit centre for the Russian mafia. They expanded from Eastern Europe to go global from the 1990's onwards, including taking over or displacing the Italian mafia gangs in the US. Boss of bosses Ukrainian Semion Mogilevich is not known as the brainy don for nothing where he has expanded his operations from the Soviet Union to go global.

Criminals paying larges sums of money to get to the UK is seen as an investment with the rich pickings here compared to their own countries.

[Varche]

Large gendarme presence at end of Rouen toll motorway today. We got pulled in our Spanish reg vehicle.

Purpose of travel. We are taking illegal migrants to the UK . We were waived through!

54,000 taken in by Spain this last year. Very few stay, most use the travel ticket they are given once pronounced well, to travel out of Spain to Northern Europe.

[Doctor Gollum]

Because the climate is sooo much more agreeable...

[Rods2]

Because the financial climate is sooo much more agreeable...

FTFY

[Kevin Wood]

Large gendarme presence at end of Rouen toll motorway today. We got pulled in our Spanish reg vehicle.

Purpose of travel. We are taking illegal migrants to the UK . We were waived through!

54,000 taken in by Spain this last year. Very few stay, most use the travel ticket they are given once pronounced well, to travel out of Spain to Northern Europe.

That's fairly obvious. Rouen is the @rsehole of the universe, so getting the hell out of there..

Which is easier said than done, as it seems to have some sort of force field around it that deflects any motor vehicles off their intended route and round the ring road endlessly. Or maybe the signs are just rubbish?

[Varche]

Large gendarme presence at end of Rouen toll motorway today. We got pulled in our Spanish reg vehicle.

Purpose of travel. We are taking illegal migrants to the UK . We were waived through!

54,000 taken in by Spain this last year. Very few stay, most use the travel ticket they are given once pronounced well, to travel out of Spain to Northern Europe.

That's fairly obvious. Rouen is the @rsehole of the universe, so getting the hell out of there..

Which is easier said than done, as it seems to have some sort of force field around it that deflects any motor vehicles off their intended route and round the ring road endlessly. Or maybe the signs are just rubbish?

Have you tried Bordeaux? Just as bad.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Well, if you are silly enough to go to French France........

[Nick W]

That's fairly obvious. Rouen is the @rsehole of the universe, so getting the hell out of there..

Which is easier said than done, as it seems to have some sort of force field around it that deflects any motor vehicles off their intended route and round the ring road endlessly. Or maybe the signs are just rubbish?

You're doing it wrong, takes about 15 minutes at lunchtime from entering the tunnel to getting on the motorway. Even my mother doesn't get lost, and she's still confused about directions in a town she's lived in for nearly 60 years


Bordeaux is easy, I just follow the signs for Biarritz or Paris depending  which direction I'm going. Again, about 45 minutes between the tolls.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Have you tried Bordeaux? Just as bad.

I prefer a nice Merlot or Shiraz myself.  Preferably from the new world. 

[TheBoy]

Large gendarme presence at end of Rouen toll motorway today. We got pulled in our Spanish reg vehicle.

Purpose of travel. We are taking illegal migrants to the UK . We were waived through!

54,000 taken in by Spain this last year. Very few stay, most use the travel ticket they are given once pronounced well, to travel out of Spain to Northern Europe.

That's fairly obvious. Rouen is the @rsehole of the universe, so getting the hell out of there..

Which is easier said than done, as it seems to have some sort of force field around it that deflects any motor vehicles off their intended route and round the ring road endlessly. Or maybe the signs are just rubbish?

Rouen is where another tomtom fell out the window, due to its insistence on going round in circles in the city centre. At rush hour.

[Kevin Wood]

Large gendarme presence at end of Rouen toll motorway today. We got pulled in our Spanish reg vehicle.

Purpose of travel. We are taking illegal migrants to the UK . We were waived through!

54,000 taken in by Spain this last year. Very few stay, most use the travel ticket they are given once pronounced well, to travel out of Spain to Northern Europe.

That's fairly obvious. Rouen is the @rsehole of the universe, so getting the hell out of there..

Which is easier said than done, as it seems to have some sort of force field around it that deflects any motor vehicles off their intended route and round the ring road endlessly. Or maybe the signs are just rubbish?

Rouen is where another tomtom fell out the window, due to its insistence on going round in circles in the city centre. At rush hour.

Not just me then?

[Nick W]

Rouen is where another tomtom fell out the window, due to its insistence on going round in circles in the city centre. At rush hour.

Not just me then?

None of the three satnavs I've used have ever wanted to go through the city centre. It's on the other side of town to where you need to be for a start.Once again:down the hill, through the tunnel, over the bridge, turn off and under the road, past the marshalling yards, over the roundabout with the concrete cows and rejoin the motorway in the direction of Le Mans. Takes 15 minutes at lunch time. Same route in reverse when you return.

[Doctor Gollum]

Less haste, more speed

[Sir Tigger KC]

I've driven past Rouen a few times without any trouble. 

But that was in the olden days when you looked at a map and followed the signs.   

[Doctor Gollum]

I've driven past Rouen a few times without any trouble. 

But that was in the olden days when you looked at a map and followed the signs.   

That'll never catch on either