IN THE COUNTRY OF AUTOMATIC MACHINES WHICH DO NOT HIT BACK.
IN THE COUNTRY OF AUTOMATIC MACHINES WHICH DO NOT HIT BACK.
In March of this year an observer "Stock exchanges plus avto" during
Weeks worked as the accredited correspondent on
The Geneva motor show. On hired Opel Corsa it has driven
More than thousand kilometres on roads of Switzerland. Today its story
About roadside service in this country.
Both to HAVE a rest, And to LOOK. In Switzerland, as well as in next Italy
And France, along high-speed highways through
Twenty-thirty kilometres it is possible to see platforms for rest with
Refuellings and without these. The last look more modest, but all for
Rest with refuellings and without these. The last look more modest, but
All the same on them it is pure - periodically comes serving in
To green uniform by the orange car, changes the black plastic
Bags in urns also are cleaned by a toilet.
At east coast of lake of Geneva, where a highway
Passes highly over picturesque coast, rest platforms combine
Also functions of the viewing. Above and below a high-speed line it is possible
To meet tiny platforms among grape terraces,
Calculated all on one-two cars. Parkings are provided and
On the roads going along lake, actually - quays. There
Between plane trees with freakish, cut off under the uniform standard
Crones can be left the car for a while.
DIESEL ENGINES NOT In HONOUR. To a trip I knew from the Internet
Information, that in Switzerland cars with diesel engines
Are unpopular (the prices for fuel, by the way, on sites have become outdated).
It was convinced of truthfulness of these data at first in on sites
Have become outdated). It was convinced of truthfulness of these data at first in
The Swiss rolling offices where was not diesel
Cars, and then at acquaintance to the prices for fuel on
The local gas stations.
Surprisingly, but solar oil in this country costs almost as much,
How much and 95th neetilirovannyj gasoline, and sometimes even is more.
It is difficult to understand in this question of Swisses, as in
The next France which was visible from my window Opel Corsa,
Business is very much the other way - diesel cars more popularly
Petrol, and diztoplivo there costs in one and a half time more cheaply
Gasoline. Almost the same situation and at the southern neighbour - Italy.
To the true reasons of this interesting phenomenon I was not in time
To get to the bottom, probably, has put here in care of the ecology
The small beautiful country. Most likely, the cars working
On diztoplive, do not respond the high local ecological
To standards, and can be, with the prices on neetili - rovannyj gasoline
Have a little gone too far, so have closely come nearer to the prices on
diztoplivo.
Only one I will tell: Swisses, it is demonstrative not interested persons
To unite with other Europeans in the Schengen union and not
Going to to change the currency for the all-European euros, big
Originals - in many respects go counter to the Western Europe. In it to me
Repeatedly it was necessary to be convinced during business trip.
FULL TANK - the PROBLEM. The first acquaintance to the Swiss gas station for
Our motorist unprepared morally to dialogue with
Callous automatic machines, can end it is pitiable. It or not
Will fill the car, not having understood without knowledge of language in the instruction,
Or will overpay for gasoline.
In Switzerland on distributing columns of the gas station automatic machines are established,
Which accept paper money. But the most important thing: they delivery not
Give! I have found out it from the instruction on a column of the tiny deserted
Refuellings on minor road. Before putting in a belly
The automatic machine of 20 francs (12 dollars), I had to estimate,
How much in a tank remains gasoline, to recollect tank volume, in general,
To be engaged in arithmetics as on our refuellings, instead of to fill in simply
The full tank on western manners, and then to pay off in a little shop
At refuelling.
Operating under the instruction, I have filled in for 20 francs of gasoline, then
Has looked at the gauge of level of fuel on instrument panel "п п?я я я ".
It has appeared, that else it was possible to add, but as to spite remained
Large denominations. To risk did not become. At the owner approached
The car I have taken an interest, whether all so is hopeless with delivery on
The Swiss gas stations and whether everywhere on them automatic machines. The local resident
Has explained to me, that if has overpaid, it is possible to take the check and
To show its serving in shop at refuelling (it is natural,
There, where is these shops), and they will return a difference. Refuellings in
The majority automatic, but there are also usual
Firm the known oil companies, where an order more
Habitual for Europeans. Basically the gas stations at night work with
Automatic columns (I have well experienced it in the end
Business trips, but about it later).
Further I and refuelled, that is periodically
Fed to automatic machines the twenty. A full tank to fill in it was not possible -
Mainly automatic gas stations came across.
FORGET About "VISA". People tempted can have a lawful
Question: and why I have not used a credit card, after all, on idea,
Automatic machines in a civilised country should accept and credit
Cards? Yes, they accept them, but the matter is that in the such
To the original country, as Switzerland, at least in
Vicinities to such original country, as Switzerland, on the extreme
To measure in vicinities of lake of Geneva, on refuellings automatic machines
Recognise only a number of local cards, such, as Postcard, and from
International - only Eurocard-Mastercard. So to owners
Credit card Visa or American Express with these automatic machines
Not to agree. As, however, and with cash dispenses on refuellings.
I knew (besides from the Internet), that card Visa not so
Favour in Switzerland, but did not think, that to such degree! With the
Card Visa which has been checked up not in one European country and in
To Canada, to me it was necessary to go through not so pleasant minutes in
Last night of a trip when it was required to fill in a tank to the full.
I have taken then Swiss roadside service on the full
To the program!
The matter is that to hand over the car hired, it is necessary
Necessarily with a full tank (for forgetful the penal are provided
Sanctions). To hand over Opel Corsa in an underground parking of the Geneva
The airport I should at night and consequently last day not
Refuelled, having left this procedure for the night. Has only looked after in the afternoon
On a highway between Lausanne and Geneva the nearest to the airport
The big refuelling with shop. It has appeared, that on a high-speed line
It is on distance in 35 kilometres from Geneva.
At midnight I call in on dead refuelling, a little shop at it
It is closed, hence, from employees of anybody. Before me foolish
Automatic machines which job I have understood, but from it it is not easier:
How to fill in a full tank by means of the automatic machine which does not give delivery?
Moreover, as to spite, large denominations on hands remained.
Time draws in, the car should soon on an underground parking
Rolling office to stand. I address to the rare night
To automobile owners with a question, where nearby normal refuelling.
Those unperturbably respond: "Ezzhajte to France". Humorists!
Were fenced off from the Schengen space by the national visa,
Have made to itself preferential journey to nearby France, and me in it
Without risk not to drive in any way: the French frontier guards or sleep
Now, or back Swisses will simply give the up as a bad job, and here
"Island" precisely any more will not start up. The Swiss visa at me
The unitary.
In general, the variant with France, unfortunately, has disappeared. And it is a pity, there I
Precisely on a highway without problems would refuel, and a card
Visa would be there normal payment means. Did not add
Optimism and the Swiss refuellings out of a highway and in the Geneva.
There continuous automatic machines and if also there are little shops at this time
They are already closed.
It was possible to leave an impasse, when one of
"Natives" has advised to me to exchange money at restaurant,
Seen in semikilometer on other party of a highway.
Having driven from one and a half ten kilometres to be developed, I
Has approached on the necessary place and has with relief sighed: on the refuelling
Complex which included also restaurant, the little shop worked, and
Means, it was possible to fill in a full tank, to pay off and even
To receive delivery.
It is assured, that to the girl-operator of that refuelling of such joyful
The client still for a long time should not be seen.
The remained decent distance to the Geneva airport I
Has overcome duly ekoralli where a victory award
Driven with the minimum expense of fuel. The 1,2-litre engine
Opel Corsa me has not brought, and when I at last have gone into the car in
Vault - the arrow of the index of level of fuel showed still
Full tank.
In general, for a trip to this country I advise to issue the credit
Cards Eurocard-Mastercard, and in the Switzerland for
Problemless refuelling always to have at itself banknotes
Advantage in 10 and 20 francs.
WHERE to PUT the TRIFLE. Continually, it is natural and on platforms
For rest, there are call boxes on which it is possible to call in
Any country. Unlike other West European countries, where
Payphones are entirely translated to cards, Swiss phones in
The core eat coins, that, in my opinion, it is more convenient -
Is where to get rid of collecting trifle, which outside of
This country will turn only to a souvenir. And at you on hands
There can be "powerful enough" souvenirs - coins in 5
The Swiss francs (it about 3 American dollars),
To change you them for currency of other countries already cannot anywhere. In
Volume, that at you the metal will constantly collect
Bank notes, do not doubt - in Switzerland of problems with a trifle is not present, at
Any seller pallets of cash automatic machines simply burst with it.
So, throw in the automatic machine not less than 60 centimes (0,6 francs),
Type a code of Russia 007, then an area code and a phone number and
Enjoy perfect audibility. That is necessary still
To "feed up" the automatic machine, it will remind you a signal. Better for
Conversation to choose coins more small - 1/2 or 1, 2 francs and to throw
Them on one because the automatic machine though gives delivery, but somehow
Reluctantly, it there long approximates something - the tip
Shorthands, probably.
It is possible and save on telephone conversations from Switzerland,
Having used the reduced rate (tab. 4 see). If to call from
Russia or other country to Switzerland a zero in a code to type not
It is necessary (tab. 3) see. For example, to phone from territory
To Geneva, it is necessary to type Russia 8-10-4122 and Geneva phone.
It is excessive to remind, probably, that along highways, as
And in any West European country, through each two kilometres
Emergency free phones are established. In Switzerland they
Are painted in bright orange colour.
LANGUAGE WILL finish. The QUESTION - WHAT. It is remembered, in one of
Numerous jobs which it was necessary to me assiduously
To summarise in students, the leader of world proletariat
Has noticed, that "small Switzerland does not lose, and wins from
That in it there is no one common language, and whole three ". It in it
Question, probably, has thoroughly understood, having spent in this country
It is a lot of time in emigration. Strictly speaking, in Switzerland
National languages not three, and whole four, but on the exotic
retoromanskom communicates less than one percent of Swisses, therefore
It is not counted.
As to our citizens they obviously lose from
Such specificity of the country: they should drag with themselves not one, and three
Phrase book if they want to examine all country. If their purpose
To meet vicinities of lake of Geneva and northern coast
Lakes Nevshtatel, that is with the country West enough to take
The French phrase book. For visiting of the south of the country - canton
Ticino - Italian. Other part of Switzerland -
The German-speaking. In some cantons, for example Friburge and
Vallise (capital Son), it is officially fixed dvujazychie -
Domination of French and German of languages. In Grisonse (Hens) -
All three languages the official.
Now it becomes clear to you, in what language or languages will be
To come across to the instruction at the gas station and in hotels. Theoretically everyone
frankoshvejtsarets should know German language, German-speaking -
French. They them pass in school, but in practice know and
Officials and workers use several languages only
Service. At the airports and the big hotels to you will be enough and
Elementary knowledge of English.
Those who knows the French language, should be morally ready to
To linguistic surprises of the Swiss variant of French
Language. For example, to the constant use by cashiers of the forbidden
In France in the middle of the seventeenth century of numerals 70
(septante) and 90 (nonante).
MORE CHEAPLY WILL not find. In the last reporting I already mentioned about
To dearness of the Swiss hotels. If you travel on
The car around lake of Geneva also want more productively
To spend the means in this expensive country I advise to you
To stop in hotel Formule-1. About these typical hotels with
Identical facades we already in detail wrote (plus see "the Stock exchange
avto "N 4, 2001).
The Swiss hotel differs from the French only hardly
bolshej the price. In it also only three-local numbers with
Double and located cross-section on the second circle
Single beds and uniform payment irrespective of quantity
Living (from one to three, certainly). In a room is
The TV... With anticreeping system. In a corner - a washstand.
Other conveniences, and in it one more feature of these
Hotels, in a corridor.
Important point: the placing service works only in the morning (from 6.30
Till 10.00) and in the evening (from 17.00 till), in the rest of the time
Employees are replaced with the computer at an input in hotel. That with it
To communicate and reserve room, it is necessary to have the credit
Card: Eurocard-Mastercard, Visa, American Express. (Glory
To the god though here all cards work, and that, most likely,
Because the hotel does not belong to the Swiss network of hotels.) if
Places are, you receive a six-place code from your room, a code
This will be valid and for an entrance door in hotel.
The breakfast in Swiss "п?п?я п я п п -1" costs about five dollars,
To reserve it it is necessary in advance. On a modest buffet will be
Coffee or tea, orange juice, fruit, rolls, grenki,
Small portions of butter and jam if will carry and plavlenogo
Cheese. For comparison: in supermarkets of Switzerland for this money
It is possible to buy a maximum two sandwiches.
Table 1. Fuel cost in vicinities of lake of Geneva
(March, 2001).
Kind of fuel the Price in the Swiss
Francs (in dollars
- Approximately)
Geneva, Lausanne Highway N 1 Highway N 9 Out of avto -
(п 25) on a site (п 62) on a site of highways
Geneva - Lausanne Lausanne - Vilnev
neetilirovannyj 1,34(0,83) 1,41(0,87) 1,36(0,84) 1,34-1,37
Gasoline with oktanovym (0,83-0,85)
Number 95 (95 Sans
plomb)
Gasoline with oktanovym 1,40(0,87) 1,47(0,91) 1,42(0,88) 1,43 (0,87)
Number 98 (98 Super
Plus)
Diztoplivo (Diesel) 1,35(0,84) 1,37(0,85) 1,37(0,85) 1,37-1,38
(0,85-0,86)
Table 2. Phones in Switzerland
Police 117
Fire protection 118
"First aid" 144
The help on roads 140
Status it is expensive 163
Service exact 161
Time
The found things 787-60-00
(Geneva)
Table 3. Telephone codes of cities
City the Area code
If to call with if to call
Territories from Russia
Switzerland (after a set
8-10-41)
Basel 061 61
Bern 031 31
Davos 081 81
Geneva 041 41
Lausanne 021 21
Locarno 091 91
Lucerne 041 41
Table 4. The preferential telephone tariff
Call from Switzerland Everyday life Days off
In... (Saturday,
Sunday)
Switzerland 17; full days
21
Europe and Northern 21 full days
Africa
The USA and Canada 21 full days
Automatic machines in Switzerland not only on refuellings. They everywhere:
Sell bus (as I have understood, these automatic machines too do not give delivery)
And railway tickets (for them credit cards are necessary, instead of a trifle),
Stamps (accept a trifle), give out receipts on land and
Underground parkings etc. But most of all me have surprised
The automatic machines changing currency (accept only banknotes). In them
It is possible to change DM, French and Belgian francs,
The Austrian shillings, the Danish crones, pesetas, English
Pounds, American and Canadian dollars for the Swiss francs and
On the contrary One of versions parkovochnyh automatic machines. This
Will give out the receipt after you have dialled place number on
To parking, have thrown a trifle and have pressed the green button; at payment
Credit card it is necessary to dial at first number parkovochnogo places, to press
The blue button (one pressing means removal from bill 1/2
Franc) to insert and take out a credit card, after that
The automatic machine will give out the receipt which should to try to be lost
The INQUIRY Hotel Formule-1 is in suburb of Lausanne
Bjussini. The address: rue de l'Industrie 67, 1030 BUSSIGNY, Suisse.
Phone (4121 701-02-02, fax (4121 702-31-72.
Journey on highway N1 (п 25, п 62) from Geneva:
Direction Lausanne Nord, departure from a highway in a direction
Bussigny, 300-400 metres, hotel on the right on a course are direct
Movements. On highway N1 (п 23, п 25) cп? parties Iverdon-le-Ben,
Bern departure aside Bussigny, hotel through 200 metres
On the right.
Residing cost - 55 Swiss francs (from 01.07 on
30.09), in the rest of the time - 52 Swiss francs. A breakfast
(Buffet) in everyday life - from 6.30 till, on Sunday and
Holidays - from 7.00 till, cost - 8 Swiss
Francs.
The similar hotel will shortly become operational in
The Zurich airport. To distinguish "formular" hotels from others
Easily on presence over an input of the big yellow cube with a fragment
Checkered flag and huge black letter F and in red figure 1.
Guide signs to this hotel are issued in the same spirit In
Number of hotel Formule-1 a double bed and located
Cross-section on the second circle the single. In a room is
The TV... With anticreeping system. In a corner - a washstand.
Alexander ELCHISHCHEV (Geneva - N.Novgorod).
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//* an information Source: п п я п?п +п п я п? (Nizhegorod. TPD), 12.04.01
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