TGV booking problems

I am trying to book TGV from Paris to Avignon on 27 July 2008 returning 31 July. Despite trying to follow Morgan B%26#39;s advice I keep encountering errors trying to use SNCF website. Clicking on the british flag takes me to rail europe website and after I enter our to/from etc. it comes up with a blank error page. I seem to be able to get to a timetables screen on SCNF as long as I leave it all in French. I am concerned that I won%26#39;t be in France until 22 July so can%26#39;t collect the tickets until then but I can%26#39;t decipher all the terms and conditions in French.

I also looked at thalys.com but it will not let me select Avignon as a destination.

Any assistance will be appreciated plus any tips from other Aussies who have mastered this process or used another booking method would be great.

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The instructions in the forum are outdated. I cant go back and edit them unfortunately and the updates get lost in all the replies. However , I made an inside page that I can update and it will tell you how to get around the issue you are talking about.

Just go here: tripadvisor.com/Travel-g187147-c3019/Paris:F…

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Merci Morgan B! I used your instructions, no problems this time.

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SNCF is battling Trenitalia as the most fouled up web site.

I did a test run for some tickets I plan to get later, and was given no option to print them, as I have done in the past.

What%26#39;s up with that?

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glad to help assiefam5

franco, you cant print every fare at home and destinations outside of France are often not printable.

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