The Duck Farm is open again. Yee Haa! They hadn’t closed, they were just taking a week’s holiday! Sunday lunch, here we come! We took Angelique and Ingrid with us. They are too busy with their lovely new house to…
8. WE LIKE THE LOT A LOT.
We might even get there now! OK, first we engage the sat nav. The BMW system is rubbish. Very unreliable. She’s even programmed to say “I’m sorry, I must try harder!” when we start shouting at her and telling her…
7. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE GERS.
Towards the end of our stay at La Brouquère, we had to move to the other end of our terrace. Someone else is coming. They have booked “our” pitch. So we move from plot 13 to 15 and get a…
6. RESTAURANT TROUBLE.
We booked Sunday lunch at La Faléne Bleue, (the Blue Moth)… … a very posh restaurant at Lannepax about 10 kms south of camp. I still find telephone calls in French a bit tricky – especially when there’s an answerphone…
5. LES JOURS FÉRIÉS (BANK HOLIDAYS)
Our new campsite (Camping la Brouquère) near Gondrin turned out to be a little gem! Little, in that it comprises only 20 pitches. Our “terrace” is almost 90 metres in length and is home to just three pitches. That’s us…
4. RURAL SOUTH-WESTERN FRANCE
Dax is a centre of thermal baths. They advertise cures for all sorts of rheumatic conditions, but they seem to be protracted affairs lasting weeks and there’s a lot of hot mud involved. While a swim in nice clear, warm…
3. A LA FRANCE
We chose a Sunday to relocate to France, the day when only a few lorries are on the move. The motorway out of Spain is a fairly exciting sort of road. Bendy and hilly, with lots of tunnels and viaducts. …
2. DISASTER STRIKES AT COFFEE TIME!
Before I move on here, I have been much criticised by my editor-in-chief for my brief comment about Chistmas “coming and going”. It actually came with much effort on everyone’s part. Two beautiful trees, Christmas decorations everywhere and heaps of…
1. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
Sorry about the abrupt end of the Australian saga. A few things happened and time was lost. However, I made a threat to reveal our interactions with the local constabulary. So, just to cover those before getting on the ferry…
8. CARS AND LIGHTS!
I’m so far behind that it’s now 2023! So, we wish everyone a Happy New Year. … and I’ll get a bit out of sequence now … While we were in Samford we came across the Ford Anglia from the…