Here’s a bleg I’m hoping someone knows about.

The Derbs are going to England in August. We want to take a side trip to

France to (a) see Paris, and (b) visit friends in Normandy.

Plan A was to hire a car from London & take it over on a ferry (or thru the

Chunnel). However, Budget rent-a-car, my usual firm, say they won’t let us

take a rental car out of England for insurance reasons.

Yet my English relatives tell me they often drive over to France, and their

insurance companies don’t mind (though you apparently have to tell them

you’re doing it, the first time at least).

It seems to follow that there ought to be some car-rental company that

doesn’t mind, either. Plainly Budget is not that company. What I have to

do now is call every car rental desk at Heathrow airport to see if I can

find one that doesn’t mind us taking a car to France.

That’s where I’m looking to have some knowledgable reader save me the

trouble. Anyone got info on this?