Driving in France

What you need to have/know:

Calais may only be a short hop away, but even so, they have rules that visitors, who are driving in France, should adhere to. Here is a short list that will ensure a smooth trip.

On Car Rear: You are required to place a GB sticker on the rear of your car.

Reflective Jacket: Since July 2008 it is compulsory for motorists to have a reflective jacket in any vehicle with four wheels or more in France. Non compliance could be an on the spot fine of up to 130 euros.

In the boot: Drivers are required by French law to have the following items in their boot: a warning triangle, florescent jackets, spare bulb kit, first aid kit and fire extinguisher.

Car: Headlights need to be adjusted to drive on the right.

Glovebox: Vehicle registration document or letter from the owner/hirer confirming authorisation.

Notebook: Make sure you have the emergency contact numbers for your insurance company and European breakdown cover details (if you have it).

Passengers: Children under 10 cannot travel in the front with the exception of babies (up to 9 months and less than 9kg) in rear facing seats. All passengers (front and back) must wear seat belts if fitted.

Drink Driving: – Don’t drink and drive. The limit is just one glass of wine and penalties are severe if you don’t adhere. An on-the-spot fine of up to 3000 euros could be levied.

Check out

www.kent.police.uk/travel for more information.

Drivers Beware

Age Limit

Uk drivers can start at 17. In France its 18

Drive on the right

Don’t forget that in France, you should drive on the right.

Radar Detectors are illegal

If you have one a radar detector, remove it from your car before you leave. Not only will you be fined, but this will be confiscated, even if switched off. Check out this website www.english.controleradar.org for useful information about French roads. Even though most foreign drivers are, for the time, not targeted by the vast network of automatic speed cameras, knowing where they are on your itinerary is still a good idea : the impunity will not last long…

Types of Road

A roads: Autoroutes – these are motorways

N roads: Route Nationals – these are major roads

D roads: Routes Departementales – or secondary roads that link towns and villages.

Speed Limits

Did you know that eight out of ten drivers caught speeding in Calais in France are British? Traffic officers from Kent have been called in to help French police patrol the A26 motorway south of Calais, so beware as if you are caught, you will be asked to pay an on-the-spot fine!

Toll motorways 80 mph/130 km/h but reduced to 70 mph/110km/h when wet

Dual carraigeways 68mph/110 km/h

Other roads 68mpn/110km/h

In towns* 31mph/50kh/h

* Towns are marked by the town name. A bar through the town name means the end of that town.

Seat Belts

Seat belts must be worn both by passengers in the front and the rear. Children under 10 years old must not travel in the front. The only exception is if the child is a baby up to 9 months old and weighs less than 9 kilos.

Drinking and Driving

Don’t do it. Just one glass of wine will take you over the limits and drink/drive laws are strictly adhered to and penalties servere.

Driving Signage Translations

Autres Directions = other directions

Cédez le passage = give way

Chaussée deformer = uneven road/ temporary surface

Déviation = Diversion

Gravillons = loose chippings

Passage protégé = your right of way

Péage = Toll

Priorité piétons = give way to pedestrians

Rappel = reminder

Rids de poules = potholes

Sortie = an junction/exit off a motorway

Toutes Directions = All directions

Vous n’avez pas la priorité = Give way.

Parking facilities in Calais:

There are around 700 parking meter spaces in Calais. You get 15 minutes grace but anything more than that must be paid for up to a maximum of 4 hours between 9am-12 noon and 2pm-7pm. Sundays and public holidays are free. Find them at:

* Boulevards Gambetta, Jacquard, Lafayette and Pasteur

* rue des Fontinettes

* Boulevard Clemenceau/Rue Royale/Rue de la Mer

* Charges apply between 09.00-12.00 and 14.00-19.00 every day (except Sundays and public holidays) as follows: 1st hour 0.50 Euro; 2nd hour 1 Euro

Free parking for cars:

Parking is free on roads with no markings or a dotted white line. There are more 8,000 free parking spaces on streets close to boulevards de l’Egalite, Gambetta, Jacquard, Lafayette, Pasteur, rues Royale and de la Mer, Place Crevecoeur, Parking de la Plage, Parking de la rue du Temple and Parking lot Boulevard Lafayette Match. There’s also two and a half free hours covered parking at Les 4 Boulevards shopping centre.

Free parking available for coaches:

* Town Hall (Hotel de Ville), Place d’Armes, Quai du Rhin, Bassin Ouest

Onward Journies – Drive Times from Calais:

• Arras: 1 hour 10 mins
• Boulogne: 22 minutes
• Cambrai: 1 hour 35 minutes
• Douai: 1 hour 20 minutes
• Dunkerque: 30 minutes
• Le Touquet: 40 minutes
• Lille: 1 hour 20 minutes
• St Omer: 35 minutes

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Personality Development

Introduction

Before 5-6 years ago, we all are known that there is no any term related to the personality development and soft skill development.

But due to change in the competitive environment, this change forces the person to grip these necessary changes .if we are going back, there is a need of a person who have great knowledge of the related aspect and no Infosys on their skills, but in these era with the introduction of the personality development and soft skill every person is try to adopt this...

                             Let take a brief look on the term “personality development” ….

Personality development is all about to change the one’s attitude to see the things... Every person has his own way to feel the things and to observe the thing in a very positive way. It listens to be very easy but actually not to be so.

 If we LOOK it in a practical way, we cannot able to forget the person who has a very good attitude and the way to pretend and see the thing. We really very influence with that kind of the person…and not in front but we really feel “WHAT A ATTITUDE YAR”

In simple way, we can say that personality development means enhancing and grooming one’s outer and inner self to bring about a positive change in your life. Each individual has a distinct persona that can be developed, polished and refined. this process include boosting ones confidences ,improving communication and language speaking abilities ,widening ones scope of knowdge,developing certain hobbies or skills, grace to the way to looks, talks and walks and overall changing oneself with positivity. Liveliness and peace...

In simple words, we can say that personality development means to bring the positivity in the behavior

“There is a little difference in the people  but that little difference make a big difference , the little difference is attitude and a big difference is whether it is positive or not” . It is very important to make up of the thinking and imagination power. It really helps the person to improve himself very deeply.

In education level, we get the things only to increase the knowledge,

It is right,

However, it has no value, if we are not able to apply the knowledge.

Moreover, there is a need to get some specialty so that we can do work with and in good way.

   

                                  “PERSONALITY”………………….!!!!!  

                                      WHAT COMES TO MIND?

                       Does personality means famous people….

“DEVELOPMENT”……………..!!!!

WHAT COMES TO MIND?

Does development means physical growth….

                             , it is not so ……

  Personality means an integrated organization of the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, psychological and spiritual characteristics of an individual.

Moreover, development is ongoing process skill attitude knowledge.

Personality is an important factor that enhances individual career. It covers the inner aspects of the individuals such as motivation, perception, feeling, reaction, attitude, value.etc…

Personality includes all “traits”

                                    Here, I used the word “traits” which means consistent way of behaving in which people differ from one another.  Intelligence, aggressiveness, musical aptitude, honesty, seriousness and friendliness are all examples for “traits”. This called psychological feature…

I have some of the examples of different type of personalized person.

Generally, people have four types of personality.

• Directness
•  Extroversion
•  Pace
•  Structure

Directness: - the person having this kind of personality is

• Outspoken and direct
•  Good trouble shooters
• Thrive on solving problem
•  Hate anyone looking over their shoulder
• Attack things aggressively.

Extroversion: - this kind of people is

•  Enthusiastic and pleasant.
• Versatile in any situations.
• Get things accomplished through people.
•  Like group discussion and encourage participated in decision making.
• Concerned with how others respond to them.

Pace: - the person having this personality is

•  Co-operative.
• Love peace and harmony.
•  Dependable and reliable.
•  Good planners.
•  Have good memory.
•  Friendly and make great friends.

Structure

•  Hate to make mistakes.
• Well organized.
• Have eye for details.

Every person has his or her own opinion and this reaction of the opinion makes a distinct (different) personality. In simple words, we can say that, personality development is an overall winning approach towards life. Here I want to draw your attention towards the personality development programs that helps the person to remove their unwanted habits and make the person confident...

                                     Before the introduction of the personality development programs there was no requirement of these kinds of qualities in a person for seeking a job, but education alone was considered enough. Due to the changing environment and huge population there is a need to have mare effective people was realized and every industry or company looks forward to have readymade workers and officials. Therefore, there is a need to have personality development programs at college level to make the student versatile and confident.

Personality development also means enhancing and grooming one’s outer and inner self to bring about a positive change in one’s life. Each individual has a distinct persona that can be developed, polished and refined. This process include boosting one’s confidence, improving communication and language speaking abilities , increases one’s scope of knowledge .developing certain hobbies or skills grace to the way one looks, talks and walks and overall changing oneself with positivity ,liveliness and peace.

There is little difference in people but that little difference in people makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude and the big difference is whether it is positive or not…

 Thus, I mean to say that personality is also including developing the attitude of the person. Attitude makes a very important part in one’s personality...

Let take one example of a positive attitude ….

 There is a half glass of water in front of two people, one person see the glass and say “only half glass water” and the another person ask “waao half glass water”

This shows the two different attitude of the person, one is not satisfy with the half water and the other is happy with that…

Now we discuss the requirements towards the development of fine personality. There must be

•  Clarity of goals and purpose in life.
• Doing beyond expectation.
•  Learning from failures.
•  Initiatives.
• Self discipline.
•  Managing.
•  Team work.
• Heard work/ smart work.
•  Positive attitude.
• I can do insured of I cannot do.
•  I choose to do instead of I have to do or I need to do.
•  Instead of why me say try me.

This will only happen only if we make that happen goal in through starting point goal...

•   Attitude towards failure and mistakes.
•  Upholding the ideal once again even if a person failed a thousand times.
•  We should learn from our mistakes and change our self.
•  See to that mistakes are not repeat.
•   Do not find fault with other for one own mistakes.

It is very easy to judge the mistake of others, difficult is to recognized our own mistake..

Thus we can say that to improve the attitude we must have improve the attitude towards mistake.

And mistake is painful when they happen, but year’s later collection of mistake is called experience, which leads to success. so there is a need to try adopt these essential habits.

                         Let, we go for soft skill…

                                                Soft skill refers t the cluster of personality traits, .social grace, facility with language, personal habits friendliness...

Soft skills are the technical requirements of a job..

     Examples of soft skills – personal qualities, responsibility, self esteem, sociability, soft management, integrity, honesty.

 Good soft skills are in fact scarce in the highly competitive corporate world will help you to “stand out” in a crowed of routine job seekers and mediocre skills and talent. If we are talk to the employer that what makes you stand out in the crowed?

The most common answer from an employer

•  Positive ethic
•  Good attitude
•   Desire to learn and be trained. And good attitude

It is a behavioral skill which cannot be tought.however it can be developed through continuous training.

 Following are the soft skills when the employers look for when looking for new employee:

These are:-

Courtesy (polite) considerate behavior good manners

Good attendance:-presence at event or institution report to work on a regular basis (every day).

Honesty:-moral uprightness the quality, condition, or characteristics of being fair, truthful and morally upright…

Eye contact: - the act of looking directly into the eyes of another person.

Flexibility: -to adapt a new situations and the ability according to circumstances.

Common sense: -good judgment: - sound practical judgment derived from “experience” rather than a study.

As we already discuss the hard skill i.e. technological work is required in vary old good time.

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