Family holiday, or a European tour from a vaper’s perspective:
After 8 years, it finally happened that my wife and I could organize a normal holiday abroad. We took on nothing less than traveling through the Alps with two children, by train. The area is beautiful so far, but that could go on Telex’s traveling monkey blog, I’m not writing for that, but to present a small European overview, as I decided that everywhere we stay, I will visit at least one vape shop. We spent 2 days in Como, so far this is the most positive thing, from this perspective. I came out with one pod, one replacement coil, two 60ml longfills. I dropped into Smokie’s. They have a very good opinion of the store, and for good reason. I looked around. Lots and lots of familiar longfills. (La Tabaccheria, TNT, just to mention the quality.) The lady is extremely helpful, she speaks English without any issue, even though Italians are known to be lazy when it comes to learning languages. We talked about TPD, tax stamps, K Flavour - it’s explained in another topic - and the Hungarian situation. I wanted a spare Innokin Klypse pod with a coil, in case my Sceptre breaks down despite its $2 price. I showed her the pod, she cleared everything off the table, took out a 5-pack of coils for mine, saying why should I burden myself with costs, I should spend it on the family. Full respect, after this, the shop will get a 5-star rating. The devil got into me a bit, so I grabbed a cola-flavored Elfbar from the shelf, and we said goodbye in good spirits. We were in Switzerland for one day, in Andermatt, it’s a small village, just a tobacconist, full of Elfbar, Vuze, and analog cigarettes. I didn’t buy anything. We arrived in France, in Chamonix. I went into a dedicated vape shop here. The situation here is tragic. An clueless young girl tried to lecture me about TPD and foist a 0mg Flavorart 60ml liquid on me. I said, thanks, show me some longfills instead. She didn’t know what that meant, I had to explain it to her. She said I won’t find that in France because it’s “illégal”. I told her that I have 15 years of experience, I know what is legal and what isn’t, and selling me an aroma in a bottle isn’t illegal, it would have been enough to say you don’t have it. Then I asked, by the way, is the 28,000 puff Elfbar not illegal? It doesn’t fall under the regulation. I said yes, it does, maximum 2ml tank, maximum 20 mg/ml. This is neither 2ml nor 20 mg/ml, but 50mg/ml. She started cackling in French, I told her I don’t understand that anymore, I don’t care, keep it for the local Mbappés. That’s where we are so far, we will be here for 3 days, then 2 days in Milan, I’ve scouted 3 shops there, I hope I can make it to one, then I will supplement this writing with that as well.
Thanks for reading, have a nice evening, and fatty clouds.
P.S.: the garden looks great.
a little insight into the European vape world. .. Let me add that the French are indeed not into longfills.. there this is completely abnormal, but certainly not illegal.. simply people there are not buying the overpriced longfill… what’s popular there is shortfill, then aroma.. nic salt.. this is also reflected in their web shop offerings.
there are lessons learned…
), it ended up in the basket in the end… 
. I’m working on it, the X20 Parkside battery powers everything.