I know this wont be popular but need to give credit where credit is due
Rolled in to a services just north niort at 9.55 on Tuesday night ready to sit around for another two days worth of French holidays and the only parking space was between two romainans. Gotta say they were clean and tidy, quite, waited untill I got up to run there engines offered me food and drink a few times witch I politely turned down but in the end I gave in and had some sort of chicken soup witch I thought would come back and haunt me in a couple of hours but it was really nice and the chicken just come if the bone perfectly and it never came back to haunt me.
I know a lot have a bad reputation and ritely so but I was pleasantly surprised by these two
Envy breeds contempt.
mucker85:
Envy breeds contempt.
Ask Paul Rowlands about the Romanians, or better still buy his book 
Take as you find I say!!!
Had a puncture in serbia last week, needed a jack, and a local lad came up trumps and waited the hour it took us to change the wheel without batting an eyelid 
Bunged him 20 euros and he was over the moon
Good and bad in all. Including us.
I think we all get a bit obsessed with blaming the workers for political decisions which like us they had very little say in. So we then pick up on the worst of others and tar them all with the same brush.
Of course this could be exactly what the politicians and leaders of the multi nationals want, because by keeping us divided they can keep control.
muckles:
I think we all get a bit obsessed with blaming the workers for political decisions which like us they had very little say in. So we then pick up on the worst of others and tar them all with the same brush.Of course this could be exactly what the politicians and leaders of the multi nationals want, because by keeping us divided they can keep control.
Couldn’t have put it better
turnip:
Good and bad in all. Including us.
Well said.
I take each person as I find them & respond in kind. I don’t care where they’re from, what colour they are or what floats their boat as long as they aren’t a Jimmy Saville.
I had a very mixed experience with them when i was driving there. Some where great, while others where as bent as a politician. In general the drivers where very very helpful and would go out of their way to help you out. At the boarder while running the windows they would let you pop out of the queue and then come back if you asked. They would also tell you which “official” needed a bung and which one did’nt
If you are parked up by Turkish drivers they will offer to make a 3 course meal from the side of their trailer, if it is raining, they lift up the side of the trailer with the wooden side boards to make a tent like shelter.
They can make strong tea and coffee, and are very polite and well dressed drivers, they used to wear suits years ago.
toby1234abc:
If you are parked up by Turkish drivers they will offer to make a 3 course meal from the side of their trailer, if it is raining, they lift up the side of the trailer with the wooden side boards to make a tent like shelter.
They can make strong tea and coffee, and are very polite and well dressed drivers, they used to wear suits years ago.
A few years back I was Sat in the dock cafe at Trieste with a load of Turkish drivers and a German driver, who was translating, the boat was late so we drank loads of tea and despite my best attempts to buy a round of teas they wouldn’t let me or even let me buy a kebab. The German driver explained I had 2 choices either to accept their hospitality or leave.
toby1234abc:
If you are parked up by Turkish drivers they will offer to make a 3 course meal from the side of their trailer, if it is raining, they lift up the side of the trailer with the wooden side boards to make a tent like shelter.
They can make strong tea and coffee, and are very polite and well dressed drivers, they used to wear suits years ago.
A few years back I was Sat in the dock cafe at Trieste with a load of Turkish drivers and a German driver, who was translating, the boat was late so we drank loads of tea and despite my best attempts to buy a round of teas they wouldn’t let me or even let me buy a kebab. The German driver explained I had 2 choices either to accept their hospitality or leave.
toby1234abc:
If you are parked up by Turkish drivers they will offer to make a 3 course meal from the side of their trailer, if it is raining, they lift up the side of the trailer with the wooden side boards to make a tent like shelter.
They can make strong tea and coffee, and are very polite and well dressed drivers, they used to wear suits years ago.
A few years back I was Sat in the dock cafe at Trieste with a load of Turkish drivers and a German driver, who was translating, the boat was late so we drank loads of tea and despite my best attempts to buy a round of teas they wouldn’t let me or even let me buy a kebab. The German driver explained I had 2 choices either to accept their hospitality or leave.
Ahh, it’d warm the cockles of your heart.