I’m addressing you, Jane.
It’s €70-€100 per person TOTAL, not per day.
That amount should be enough to see you right for 72 hours.
You are absolutely right! I read too fast and conflated the sentences. 
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I wonder if the cabbies ever took people across the river to Cynthia’s place?
I had no idea taxi drivers in London refused to take you where you wanted to go.
Has Uber etc made them think again?
Yes, but would a shop assistant actually do it? More likely to be met with a Gallic shrug.
The opposite in my experience, after a blip the black cab is king again in reputation at least as people have become more fed up with Uber’s surge pricing and cancellations, and more wary of who is actually driving them. I’m not suggesting Uber etc are going anywhere (hehe), but certainly in my experience people are actually appreciating having someone who (hopefully) actually knows where they’re going, has a vehicle to at least a certain standard, and with more transparency over who is driving, more than they perhaps did pre-app ride times.
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There maybe a surge in house burglaries over people being recommended to keep cash in the house especially holiday homes. Happened recently in my son’s quiet cul-de-sac to a holiday home whereby nothing of value was taken like electrical goods but all the drawers and cupboards and mattresses were pulled out. Gendarmes said it was most likely for hidden cash as they have had a few like this lately.
They can, but only for specific reasons:
- Journey length: The trip is longer than 12 miles, or longer than 20 miles if it starts at Heathrow Airport.
- Journey duration: The trip is expected to last for more than one hour.
- Location: The destination is outside of the Greater London area.
- Passenger conduct: The passenger is abusive, threatening, or aggressive.
- Risk of non-payment: The driver suspects the passenger cannot or will not pay for the journey.
- Damage to the vehicle: The passenger has luggage or items that are likely to cause damage.*
- Other specific situations: The driver’s light is off because they are not for hire at that moment (e.g., they are waiting for someone or taking a break).
For everything else, you’re meant ot use private hire ie. Uber or a local pre-booked taxi company.
So just going to the south side of the Thames is not a valid reason for refusal. Thanks for the info, not that I am ever likely to need it.
They’d probably say no based on the “no more than 12 miles rule” a lot of the time though. 
'Battursea’ or ‘South Chelsea’ as the est agents started to call it in the 1980’s.
- It is/was the law that a stationary London taxi, even in traffic or at the lights, is obliged to take a passenger who gets into the cab.
I got into trouble with that when I demanded a cabbie take a package. He said the law was, I had to come too. We then had a very amicable chat about the King Tut exhib that was on at the time [1973?]
I suspect they don’t calculate it as the crow files, but as the taxi crawls. I.e. 12 miles on the meter in the cab and on the odometer.
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Yes but… from 2026 businesses will have to provide electronic bills. I don’t see how they could legitimately sell for cash with only paper, or no, receipts. Something for the legislators to think about
Indeed, there’s south that gets you into Mediterranean climate conditions, the land of 40C summers. Then there’s south as seen from Normandy and the depts north of there.
It’s 460kms from me to Angouleme and another 500 kms from Angouleme to Narbonne, on the Med coast.
I hope someone can tell me that 40C summers are not regular between the Loire and Angouleme, as I’m sure they are in the last 200-250kms before the coast.
Friends came home early from a gite between Pau & Tarbes, Oct 24 - scorching hot and plagues of mozzies.
My friend has a daughter who runs a B&B in the Loire, rather a nice one. Manoir de Jouralem
She does not visit them in the Loire as it’s too hot in the summer
We have our house in Normandie and have done for 25 years now. It has become very much hotter over the years. Spring can now attain summer temperatures and there is a noticeable increase in mozzies. We now have a screen to go into our bedroom window which foils the blighters. No more bites overnight now. Built by helpful husband after a long time of reminders
I think it’s hotter everywhere these days. The UK wss à drought land too this summer.
My problem is not so much heat, other than the full-on heatwaves which nobody can stand. I lived in Valencia for 5 years ['15-'20] - I can take mid-30’s - it’s grey, wet winters that get me.
I put washing out 4 days ago. Today there was just enough sun to make it worthwhile bringing it back into the house. Now the wind’s picked up and it’s going to turn 'orrible again 
People’s tolerance of heat varies. I have a pal who feels that 28C is ‘frying tonight’. The UK press agrees. Forecasts of +/- 28C are pitched as if the fires of Hell were imminent.
Heat tolerance is also altered by age. The older I get the less tolerance I have of very hot weather. I am thinking of 35c plus. We lived in Munich where the summers used to be 35C plus and sometimes around 30c overnight as well. We went to Hamburg for a break and it was over 40c there, horribly hot outside but the good thing was perfect air con in the hotel bedroom made it tolerable- just!