Tap water

[dawnydoo]

Hi All.

Bearing in mind that My stomach is abit weak (albeit large ) is the tap water drinkable without boiling it first or would I be better to buy some ?(I hear it is cheaper to buy from the train station)
I plan on taking some cordial to dilute as DLRP don`t seem to do fruit shoots or am I mistaken here?
Cheers
Dawn X

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

I actually gave DD a glass of tap water from the NPB and she didnt get ill. But i always feel you can never be too careful on drinking water abroad.

I have never seen Fruit shoots on sale in DLP before, which is shame but then again im sure if they did they would cost a fortune lol.

 

[Bolanette87]

I'm not sure, but we drank the tap water from DLRP fine and nothing happened to us!

Bob xoxox

 

[cap'njack.]

We always buy bottled water whenever we go abroad for saftey sake

 

[ukstitch]

I've also drank the tap water and it's fine - as I would expect from France and especially Paris

 

[dawnydoo]

Thanks all.
Now is it better to be safe than sorry ?
X

 

[Emergency Kitten]

There's nothing at all wrong with the tap water, but you a) may not like it and b) may find that it upsets your stomach simply because it has a different mineral balance to that which you are used to.

We buy bottled water because we don't want to risk it - I am a delicate little flower and any change in water (even going North in the UK) seems to give me a bit of gyp for a day or two.

 

[A Small World]

I am a delicate little flower and any change in water (even going North in the UK) seems to give me a bit of gyp for a day or two.

Theres nothing wrong with Northern water (come on Bob back me up us Northeners have to stick together )

 

[sam_rogers]

i always do a trip to sainsburys before i go and take a couple of big bottles with me then fill up a small bottle every morning to take into the parks with me

 

[Bolanette87]

Theres nothing wrong with Northern water (come on Bob back me up us Northeners have to stick together )

Nah, its that Southern water thats the problem!!

Bob xoxox

 

[tennisfan]

You will find the water is softer then in the UK, I never have dry skin when i'm out there but I do here due to mainly the water

 

[torsie24]

I suffer really badly with my stomach (IBS bad!)

And drank loads of tap water from our Sequoia sink and also from the taps in the restaurants on the fountains in the park and was fine.

Just my excitement that made me suffer.

 

[Ware Bears]

I can remember a poster who worked for one of the water boards in the UK posting that it's perfectly safe to drink the water at DLRP, she said that water in France was safe to drink and as all the hotels at DLRP are modern there wouldn't be a problem. She said it's once you start staying in the older hotels ie. in Paris that there could be a problem with old copper pipes etc.

One of my DDs was ill one time and blamed the water although I just think it was one of those things. So we now buy bottled water from either the garage by the Santa Fe or from the Relay shop by the station. You can buy a large bottle for around €0.80 and just pour some into a smaller bottle to take into the parks. Another of my DDs refuses to drink that "bottled muck" and drinks gallons from the taps in the hotel, asks for tap water in the restaurants and drinks from the fountains and she's never ill ~ I always say she's got a cast-iron stomach!

 

[tiring_day]

Nah, its that Southern water thats the problem!!

Bob xoxox

As a fellow Northerner I must agree that our water is great and harder water makes better beer

steve

 

[Ware Bears]

Nah, its that Southern water thats the problem!!

I'm in the south and we've got really hard water. I seem to spend all my time defurring the kettle! My sister lives in Manchester and has much softer water than us but at least it's not as bad as when we go to London. Their water is really yuck.

Give me water with some bite in it any day!

 

[ukstitch]

I'm in the south and we've got really hard water. I seem to spend all my time defurring the kettle! My sister lives in Manchester and has much softer water than us but at least it's not as bad as when we go to London. Their water is really yuck.

Give me water with some bite in it any day!

Our is the same, although I would expect it to be because I'm only about 40 minutes down the road from you

It's the cornish water that's the really soft stuff, down in the south west. Us true southerners have surprisingly hard water.

 

[torsie24]

Our is the same, although I would expect it to be because I'm only about 40 minutes down the road from you

It's the cornish water that's the really soft stuff, down in the south west. Us true southerners have surprisingly hard water.

That's how we like our water! Hard, like us!! Hee hee, where do you live then Rob? (Morning!)

 

[ukstitch]

That's how we like our water! Hard, like us!! Hee hee, where do you live then Rob? (Morning!)

Not too far from Portsmouth

 

[tennisfan]

I'm thankful for our water filter as I don't like our tap water. My aunt and uncle live a few roads away & they have to filter there water as it is very chalky.

 

[Bolanette87]

The water in Barnsley is fine to drink, but it winds my excema up no end when I have a bath or shower..... Thats probably just me though.

Bob xoxoxoxox