Mao Becomes a Limey

[C0ckney]

call france

[Gibsie]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison


I know Makes you better than the riff-raff who go to uni in London

Hey I heard that you cucking funt!

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Mao
I see. Now, are minutes cheap in Europe? Like, would it be convenient for me to call France, or would it be prohibatively expensive?

Just take the day trip to Paris for less than £30 if you really want to talk to a Frenchman.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Mao
I see. Now, are minutes cheap in Europe? Like, would it be convenient for me to call France, or would it be prohibatively expensive?

Anything international will be prohibitively expensive. Anything national shouldn't be too bad. If you want to call internationally at any sensible price, you'll need to find a landline.

[Provost Harrison]

On a landline I don't believe France is that expensive, but you may need to check around first!

[Mao]

Originally posted by Dauphin


Just take the day trip to Paris for less than £30 if you really want to talk to a Frenchman.

Wait, really? I can get to Paris for 30???

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Drogue

Anything international will be prohibitively expensive. Anything national shouldn't be too bad. If you want to call internationally at any sensible price, you'll need to find a landline.

That's strange. In the US any call made to a number in the US, Canada, or (increasingly) Mexico is considered domestic so no international toll charges have to be paid. Also EVERY phone contract always comes with free domestic long distance (meaning any number in North America is free of long distance charges though you still have to pay for air time).

[Drogue]

Not in the UK. National calls mean national calls. Most mobile plans here come in two ways - pay as you go, with no free minutes, but no line rental, and contract, where you get free minutes/texts (either off peak, anytime, any network, etc. depending on plan) but pay a monthly fee for it.

Even Ireland is international in the UK.

[Flip McWho]

Northern Ireland too?

[Snotty]

vodafone has a reputation for having expensive calls.

'pay as you go' is definately the way to go though. try to make all your calls from landlines anyway as they will be cheaper, but then you can have a no monthly fee mobile to carry around with you to receive calls for free, or make organizational type texts and calls when neccesary

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Flip McWho
Northern Ireland too?

Northern Ireland is included in my 'national calls' package. So would appear not.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Flip McWho
Northern Ireland too?

I'm not sure.

Originally posted by Snotty
vodafone has a reputation for having expensive calls.

'pay as you go' is definately the way to go though. try to make all your calls from landlines anyway as they will be cheaper, but then you can have a no monthly fee mobile to carry around with you to receive calls for free, or make organizational type texts and calls when neccesary

At Oxford it's usually the other way - the only landlines we have are phonecard ones that are horrendously expensive. Mobiles are the only way to make calls, realistically.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Mao


Wait, really? I can get to Paris for 30???

You have two options that spring immediately to my mind.

1) Fly with a low cost airline, a quick (and thus random) check on Easy Jet showed me that I could get a flight from London Stansted to Paris Charles de Gaulle for £21 in late March, and a return flight for £15. Adding in taxes the full cost was under £50.

Forget that though, there are often deals with airlines that give free travel (excepting ~£15 airport tax). I note for example that Ryanair currently offers the following free flights

Fares are exclusive of taxes fees & charges which do not exceed £15.20

Pau (Pyrenees) Free
Pescara Free
Pisa (Florence) Free
Poznan Free
Rodez Free
Reus (Barcelona) Free
Santiago De Comp. Free
Rzeszów Free
Riga Free
Palermo Free
Poitiers Free
Nantes (Brittany) Free
Düsseldorf (Weeze) Free
Newquay Free
Knock Free
Stockholm (NYO) Free
Porto Free
Glasgow (Prestwick) Free
Perpignan Free
Cork Free
Santander Free
Shannon Free
Vitoria/Gasteiz NEW Free
Verona (Brescia) Free
Tours Loire Valley Free
Venice (Treviso) Free
Valencia Free
Valladolid Free
Zaragoza(Pyrenees) Free
Jerez Free

from
Wroclaw Free
Trieste Free
Turin Free
Berlin (Schonefeld) Free
Seville Free
Lamezia NEW Free
Balaton NEW Free
Salzburg Free
Szczecin Free
Oslo (Torp) Free
Tampere Free
Toulon Free
Montpellier Free
Malmo (Sturup) Free
Dublin Free
Dinard Free
Rome (Ciampino) Free
Carcassonne Free
Esbjerg Free
St. Etienne (Lyon) Free
Friedrichshafen Free
Eindhoven Free
Bergerac Free
Bydgoszcz Free
Bratislava (Vienna) Free
Brindisi Free
Ancona Free
Altenburg (Leipzig) Free
Alghero (Sardinia) Free
Milan (Bergamo) Free

from
Biarritz Free
Brno Free
Bari Free
Blackpool Free
Karlsruhe-Baden Free
Bologna (Forli) Free
Derry Free
Lodz Free
Hamburg (Lübeck) Free
Kaunas Free
Almeria Free
Limoges Free
Murcia (Alicante) Free
La Rochelle Free
Linz Free
Krakow Free
Kerry Free
Girona (Barcelona) Free
Genoa Free
Grenoble Lyon Free
Gdañsk Free
Aarhus Free
Granada Free
Frankfurt (Hahn) Free
Graz Free
Haugesund Free
Gothenburg Free

2) Your other option is to get in a car with a bunch of mates. You can get the Eurotunnel return for ~£50 IIRC, petrol money will be another £50. French tolls will be another £10 or so. Between four of you its comes in at under £30 a person. I'm sure Provost Harrison will drive you.

[Drogue]

I'd be up for a trip to Paris And yes, it's very cheap, I've flown there for under £50 and the tunnel is *very* cheap by car. However you have to get to Folkstone.

[Dauphin]

Folkestone in less than an hour from my place, door to passport control.

Although not in the current weather.