Look what arrived in the mail yesterday! A speeding ticket sent from France for driving 89 km per hour in a zone authorized for 80 km/h. The date of our offense was Sept. 11th and we were driving towards the Chateau de Brissac, which I noticed when we crossed the Loire on our way to Poissonière.
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| Chateau de Brissac |
Our speed must have been clocked by radar because we were never stopped and we weren't aware of anything until we received the notification by mail.
Here's a closer look
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| Description of the infraction. Good thing I can read French |
Dean is all for not paying, but I think I'll take the option of sending a payment by Visa in the envelope they provided. I'm sure the French traffic administration would keep hounding us with ever steeper fines and then find a suitable punishment if we ignored them. What could that be? Possibly not allowing us to rent a car in France? or not letting us enter the country? It's not worth the 45 euros they are charging. Talk about "the long arm of the law," or the long arm of French bureaucracy.
I just had to laugh as Mr. B and I also got a speeding ticket in France. We had spent the day at Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village and checked into our hotel in Sainte Foy only to discover that on Sunday's all restaurants were closed. So we zipped over to Bordeaux for dinner. We didn't get the ticket until two months later! Mr. B just thought it was a bogus fee from the car rental until we figured out it was an actual speeding ticket and he remembered the exact moment that he saw the radar on our car! We paid it and all is well.
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