Re: toulouse budget : Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:48 am  

furthermore the VAT in France is 19.6% (wait till ours is 20%) and there is a 15% inlcusive figure for service as generally the drinks are brought to you. Culturally the French do not drink in public as much as some of the more northern european countries such as ourselves, especially beer. They save save most of their supping for home hence the gallon of Stella and 1664 for tuppence at the supermarket. If you want to see real beer drinking in France visit the Alsace, 10 pints of stong lager before lunch is standard usually served in litre steins with a dash of Picon liquor (18%)

Re: toulouse budget : Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:32 am  

Alexs Dad wrote:

It may be the Lidl that 'my mate' was thinking of.

Did it have lots of local drunks and dogshit all around it? About halfway down, not as far as the Spa and on the opposite side of it. First thing you come to in the store is bottled lager, then crisps, then breakfast cereal. All other non-essential items such as staple foodstuffs, water, soap etc were at the back.

Also, that takeaway wouldnt happen to be a chinese would it, far end of the road nearest the Melting pot with a huge seated area? If so then aye, it was bloody good!!

Yeah, that was the Lidl, frequent by the Toulousain equivalent of the Library Square mob

We did go in the Chinese but changed our minds after seeing some of the stuff, the one we went to was a couple of doors further down.

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:09 am  

When me and matt went to paris for the england match last year, we bought a bottle of rose for 1euro 34, not the best ive ever had but it did the trick. i spent about £200 this time around and even less for the limoux trip but my phonebill made that back up!

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:30 am  

Che1482 wrote:

When me and matt went to paris for the england match last year, we bought a bottle of rose for 1euro 34, not the best ive ever had but it did the trick. i spent about £200 this time around and even less for the limoux trip but my phonebill made that back up!

It didn't taste too bad after the first few glasses

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jul 22, 2010 11:27 am  

i'm waiting for Malta to get a team they have a wine called Marsalla for sale there at 1.35Euros a bottle with .17c back on the bottle, its good'n'al,l i was there earlier this year and stopped a few bottles from going bad

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:06 pm  

Shall I see if I can e-mail Joe Grima and tell him to get a move on with setting a club up there?

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:34 pm  

no just make sure the house isnt in a mess for when me n your mum gets back tomorrow

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jan 13, 2011 9:35 am  

tom85 wrote:

thanks guys, i didn't realise the french ripped people off for beer. Is it to stop us getting hammered lol.

you mean in the same way uk pubs rip off it's customers for red wine etc ?

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:00 am  

Sanjunien last season to get a drink in the bar at the Toulouse ground you had to get tokens. Do they still have that system as I have about 7 left over from last season ?

Re the beer I am sure I got a pint of beer in the Melting pot for 4 euro 50 cents. Anyways I think the restaurants are very good value and also most of us were only in Toulouse for two days.

The bar in the Market Hall near the Melting pot is very good and friendly and I got a glass of red wine in there for 2 euros. You get get a sandwich or cooked meat from the surrounding stalls and eat that at the bar. Everyone was very friendly and one French lad bought me and 2 others a round of drinks.

Re: toulouse budget : Thu Jan 13, 2011 10:18 am  

frankb wrote:

Sanjunien last season to get a drink in the bar at the Toulouse ground you had to get tokens. Do they still have that system as I have about 7 left over from last season ?

Re the beer I am sure I got a pint of beer in the Melting pot for 4 euro 50 cents. Anyways I think the restaurants are very good value and also most of us were only in Toulouse for two days.

The bar in the Market Hall near the Melting pot is very good and friendly and I got a glass of red wine in there for 2 euros. You get get a sandwich or cooked meat from the surrounding stalls and eat that at the bar. Everyone was very friendly and one French lad bought me and 2 others a round of drinks.

I certainly hope so cos' i've still a load from last season - normally they will use the same system but will confirm it when we go down for the TO v Catalan friendly on the 29th

I've been either living or visiting france since the early 70s and beer has always been relatively expensive,probably cos' the wine was always considered as part of the staple diet of the french people - beer consumption has traditionally been miniscule compared to other countries like the uk.The supermarket beer is dirt cheap so it makes you wonder what the mark-up is when sold commercially ? even the wine is expensive in the restaurants (big mark-up again) but the cheapest option is to ask for a 'pichet' or jug of wine which will be the cheapest wine but not necessarily the worst wine.
Look forward to seeing you there,bon voyage