Wednesday 30th November Let me introduce you to some of my new friends. Drinking red wine is all very well but once in a while you need to treat yourself to some proper laughing juice. We’ve met the Perlembourg before,…
Bad Death in Contat
Monday 28th November We kind of got stuck in Jouques, free aire and free electric does that to us. And we had to find space for the “Where you going to put that”. I spent all day moving things around,…
Where’re you going to put that then?
Saturday 26th November Amazingly not only had we read the bus timetable correctly but we had also managed to have the right money ready for the bus. €1.05 each for a 30km journey, not too bad. We hadn’t gone to…
Wet, Wet, Wen
Friday 25th November Castellane would have been lovely if it hadn’t rained heavily all night. My French advisor told me that Thursday was gong to be sunny but I think he was confusing his words, we had more of the…
On top of the world
Wednesday 23rd November Trying to decide where to go and needing to empty the toilet cassettes soon I found a town called Castellane and best of all it had four aires, three with services, it was in the right direction…
The Great Escape
Tuesday 22nd November Bearing in mind that the Romans managed to invade most of Europe, set up long lines of communications and trade routes why is it so bloody difficult to get into or out of Italy? Why didn’t they…
Ice Road Truckers
Monday 21st November After a night of continuous rain masking the sound of church bells things got off to a bad start wen the coffee grinder gave up the ghost. Luckily we still had the old hand grinder so I…
Competition Time
Sunday 20th November Any one who has ever spent any time near a church will find this to be one of the easiest competitions they have ever entered. It’s called guess the time. One ding followed shortly by eight dongs…
Pisa
Thursday 17th November We moved on from Florence Wednesday morning and had a really nice drive to Pisa, the roads were almost very good and after a quick detour to Lidls we were parked up in our sosta just outside…
Oi, where’re my chips?
Tuesday 15th November Florence day 2 and we’ve nearly got a plan. Since we have to walk down the hill into Florence anyway we’ve decided to take the longer route and visit a church (for a change) on the way.…