Driving in France from the UK

If Americans and our Canadian Neighbors had complications like this, half of CBP officers on both sides would be unemployed. Wether your in U.S. or Canada its your insurance, registration and drivers license. Nothing else. Why would the GB tags be invalid in France? Makes no sense.

Amazing video.. Really appreciated..👍👍

I came off the ferry & drove thru the first street on the wrong side of the road.

You do not necessarily have a right of way sign for cars coming from the right in villages, towns and cities but you should be aware and be careful before driving through.

il est handicapé ou les anglais parlent tous comme ça???

Learning to drive and have my test in 3 weeks time, in Germany. After so long living in the UK, it is hard work. I never realise France had right before left rule, I wonder if it is as frequently seen as it is here, as almost all roads inside towns are right before left etc here. Something I am still getting used to in lessons lol. I guess much of it is the same

Traffic on the right had to give way to traffic entering a roundabout in the UK at one time and I remember seeing signs to warn drivers the rule had changed. I don't remember when this was but defiantly before I learnt to drive in 1967.

Can I ask you a personal question. Were you ever in the Armed forces?

Right at the beginning of this it is wrong , you don't need vest etc. if you are a visitor on holiday in a foreign car. If you can t even get that right I assume the rest is wrong or unknown. I live in France. Never seen any case where there is give way on the right . Just rubbish . Don't listen to this person they know nothing and will cause you to have an accident. Problem is those who don't speak French and have not read the French highway code but think they can advise others. Dangerous.

Your pathetic rant about the 30kph limit through the roadworks shows your selfishness and complete ignorance. The limits have to be in place for when works will be happening just as in the UK and the lower speed limit is designed to protect those working on your precious road.

Perhaps you should show some appreciation for those doing the work to maintain the roads that you want to drive on.

Your video was mainly helpful but I won't be subscribing to somebody with such an entitled and ignorant attitude to the safety of workers.

Maybe the best deal is that British stay in their grey weathered Britain ... And everyone will feel better.

Beware! There are many, many situations where the priority from the right exists, often in towns and the countryside.
You showed the yellow square but did not show the same sign with a black line through it....which means give way to traffic from the right. This is common in town, very common indeed.
A lot, an awful lot, of UK drivers fall foul of this, every year.
Again Beware!
Worth remembering that the 50kph limit starts at the town or village sign. The limit may not be posted on a separate sign.

Only one hight visibility vest is required. Source : I pasted my theoryexam like 7 months ago and I remember it pretty well.

Nice set of tips and presentation style! Thanks! I have been driving in France for quite a few years and i still get confused by the "Priorité a Droite" signs. The yellow diamond with a white border means YOU have priority (on the major road). The same sign with a black diagonal band across it means that roads emerging from the right HAVE PRIORITY - even if you think it is a minor road. Keep a look out for stop or give way lines or give way triangles on the side roads. If there are NONE, be prepared to give way! In towns (back streets, mainly), you often see four-way crossroads with no stop lines. Treat it like a UK mini-roundabout and give way to traffic coming from the right. The black X in a red triangle is simply a warning of a junction/intersection - it doesn't tell you anything about the priorities unless it is accompanied by the yellow diamond sign.
Hope that helps!

There’s no such thing as a UK drink drive limit. In Scotland we are lower than the rest of UK

Great to see this channel growing well as a fellow ADI I'm also a MX5 owner I always recommend your other videos to all my pupils all the best

What kind of British person buys a convertible? One who drives with the top down even when it's cold enough to need a jacket and gloves in France.

Just to add, if a driver flashes their lights at you it does not mean I have seen you so please proceed in fact it means the exact opposite ie get out my way I am coming through. If you are entering a motorway the traffic will not give way to you, you must wait until there is an opportunity to enter the road. The driving manners in the South of France are worse then in the north. No idea why. Tail gating is the norm in France.Bad manners and rudeness ( especially lady drivers ) is also the norm.

My number plate has “cym” and a Welsh flag. Would I need a UK sticker?

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bonne vidéo en vrai ça doit être galère de rouler du sens oposé pour les nouveaux conducteurs. courage

The right side giveaway is being slowly phased out because it pretty much all means you give way from a main road to a minor road. They mostly stick stop signs now instead.

Road signs in France are normally only present inmediately at the turning or exit same in Belgium whereas in Spain,Germany,Netherlands u get more advance warning.

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I have a way to deal with this. Just don't go to France. It's not that great anyway

Good practical video ...reminds me of army educational films for soldiers driving in west Germany during the cold war

To driove from the top of fracne to the bottom cots £100+ in toll costs. that's insane !

Is this conquer driving?😂

This sort of information is extremely useful. I never knew what the yellow and white diamond meant until now. Keep up the good work!

I doubt anyone will see my comment but here I go. 112 is indeed the number to contact emergency services although it is that number pretty much everywhere in the EU. In France we have numbers specifically for services, 17 is for police, 18 for firefighters and 15 for medical emergency however if you don't speak French at all you may prefer to use 112.

Also watch out for drivers not using indicators OR putting them and leaving them on. Also, if you are on a main road and there is a side road coming in from the right, don't assume that any driver that has been waiting in the side road, will stay there while you pass. They often get fed up of waiting and decide to just pull out onto the main road..They'll also do this on roundabouts. The drivers will make gestures if THEY do something daft and you blow your horn at them, but it's very rare that they'll get out of the car to argue - they just do it and then let it go. Having said all that, just drive carefully and be friendly and most times you'll have no problems

Lazy French person not wanting to use the zebra crossing.. lol!!! That roundabout would give me anxiety, especially at night. Too many exits and entrances. Thankfully my car's steering wheel is on the left (yay Germany!) so I don't have a big problem there.

Driving a right hand drive car in the right lane. 😊

I would add that turning on a green does not automatically mean you have priority over pedestrians crossing the road you are turning into. Example : you're turning on a green light, a pedestrian hasn't yet set foot on the road you're turning into, but is waiting to do so. If there is no pedestrian light for them, you must stop and let them cross. If there is a pedestrian light for them, obviously stop if it's green. Only if it's red can you proceed. This can often happen on exiting roundabouts.
All other pedestrian crossings without a pedestrian light are to be treated as you would a zebra crossing in the UK, e.g. stop - no barging through.
Technically, a pedestrian crossing where there is no pedestrian crossing also has priority, but only if there isn't anywhere else to cross within 50 meters, or something like that. It's a difficult to rule to observe in practice and most people will not give way to jaywalkers.

Great video. helpful information

I hate those toll booths... The concrete sticks out at wheel level a long way, I managed to curb the wheel on my dad's Skoda Superb, and I almost never curb wheels. It's virtually the only way to get close enough though. Of course, you can avoid all that by getting an autoroute toll pass in advance!

why travel to france. we have got are brexit did and took back control what about are economy and support that ???

I live in Kent and travel over to France with my family quite a bit, never driven over there myself... but something I notice is that hardly anyone uses the headlamp deflectors anymore. When we went to Belgium my dad knew the conditions weren’t awful and we wouldn’t be out driving at night so he just didn’t bother. 😅

I'm never driving in right side drive countries. I'll end up doing an Anne Sacoolas.

Is that your wife in the passenger seat? 🧐

Great video! Been in France for about 18 years now and other things to mention are the Zebra crossings you HAVE to stop at, if you get caught you can get into trouble. STOP signs, Stop, don't just semi come to a stop, you have to stop for about 5-10 seconds. Be very vary of weather changes... you will get flashed!! You will get a ticket now! They now speak to the DVLA - it is only a 35Eu fine but it's annoying. Also, when you fill up out of hours... You will be charged the full amount, so it's normally about 130eu, you then get refunded the amount you don't use! Protect yourself and get a receipt, and use a credit card/Mastercard, because I have had my card cloned and it is an issue! Also, in slow traffic, you need to pull over to one side of the lane to allow motorbikes to pass. Be careful! Fab video! :)

There are two types of bris one makes a 16 minute long video about everything and uses metric, and the other would make a 30 second video showing bad drivers driving at 100 MPH as a joke

I know which i prefer