About two days again we were driving on the A63 and we had an incident. For those of you that don’t know the A roads are the freeways and the fastest way to get anywhere but it costs to be on them. About every half hour or so you have to go through a peage and pay to be on the road. It cost about 20 Euros to get from Mortemard to St. Jean de Luz. We pulled into one peage and there was nowhere to put in money and you had to use a credit card. Lola got her card out first and Susan fed it into the machine. The machine spit it out. Susan tried several more times. Meanwhile a line is forming behind us. We can’t back up. Lola grabs another credit card and Susan tries again and nothing happens. Susan motioned to the cars behind us to let us back up and we slowly started backing up. Then the lady right behind us got out of her car and came up to help us. She tried our credit cards and still nothing happen. She pushed a button (who knew) and spoke to someone about the paege not working. Voila’! Two young girls apeared and we paid 1.80 Euros and after several exciting minutes the gate when up.
That happened to us trying to exit the parking lot at Point du Gard France. There we’re two lanes to get out and both our car and the one next to us we’re trying to use American credit cards and they wouldn’t work! Meanwhile cars are piling up behind us, because this is the only way out. Finally an employee came over and took cash, but had no change. At that point we just gave him what we had and told him to keep the change (at least I hope we said that). It seems crazy that at a major tourist attraction and on a big freeway, American cards would not be accepted.