10-10-2018, 08:04 PM
(10-10-2018, 07:45 PM)jansens Wrote: Probably they go into the petrol station and buy a frappy wankachino or whatever coffee petrol stations sell now - worst idea ever by the way, I get so annoyed at going to buy petrol and having to wait in line to pay while someone else is having coffee made, a seemingly 5 minute plus process. Thank goodness for pay at pump!
You raise some interesting points there Simon which I will not comment on for professional reasons (much as I love to!)
I can report though the good news that pay at pump has arrived in Norway since my last visit 10 years ago, and my goodness what a leap forward that is! Nigh every petrol station in the country has a hot dog bar and the one or two holiday-jobs behind the counter always served both food and petrol so the queues were interminable. Made so much worse by the fact that as a mere English visitor my budget wouldn't stretch to hot dogs!
I was equally surprised that the old road toll machines have been replaced by a camera system. We were completely unaware of this until we'd driven through a number of them and thus spent much of our trip waiting to be pulled over by the rozzers. As it happens your number plate is traced and you get a bill a month or two later. Good to know if you are heading that way, this info is (anyway was) conspicuously absent from the RAC's motoring advice.
Sorry, is that off-topic?