Unlike the good price you get by booking train tickets right at the station, booking a car right at the rental place is a shitty idea. The employees at avis are apparently experts in wringing every last penny out of their victims...er...customers.
"You want extra drivers? That'll be $50 more. All FOUR wheels? $25 per day for each one after the first. You want enough kms to actually get OUT of our parking lot? That'll be VERY expensive."
At one point he told us unlimited kms were not allowed in France, though it clearly contradicts what their website says. Jackass.
In the end we didn't have much choice and got the avis car. The car claimed to be a turbo, but maybe something was lost in translation, because this seemed to have as much jam as 2 squirrels hopped up on a couple shots of French coffee. I followed my goal from yesterday and used all the throttle as much as possible.
It wasn't all bad though. The car was narrow enough to fit into the TINY streets to get to the house we rented. We had to actually fold in both side mirrors to get to where we were going, but we made it. Didn't even do much damage.
The town we're in is about the size of a postage stamp yet somehow contains 2400 residents. The houses are all very narrow and tall. I feel like if I turned my phone the wrong way I'd get my thumb stuck writing this post. See for yourself...
-Ryan
(The house isn't sideways, couldn't rotate the picture)
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