Stayed at St Jean de Mont for the week – we really liked it
there. One day I was really hot and
actually thinking of going for a swim and within 4 hours was freezing – the
weather just changed. Anyway loved it
there but we had to move on. Saturday we
moved onto Saumur (making our way home - sort of). Firstly we had to dump our waste, well that
was fun. A pretty big van in a small
space but with a lot of to-ing and fro-ing we managed to dump and then turn
around!!!! Thus saving having to reverse all the way back. Then it was off to do some shopping and
re-fuel and then about 140 miles to Saumur.
Of course life is never that easy.
I’ll pleut!!!!!! Actuallly I’ll pleut very much. I’ll pleut les chats et
les chiens. We got soaked – well Iain
got soaked more!!!! I drove, he did the dumping, he did the re-fuelling, we
both did the shopping. Then he was so
wet he had to get changed, 5 days later his underpants still aren’t dry – note
to self – buy cheap Asda thin ones in future – also get him into sandals so
that I don’t have socks to get dry. So we’d dumped, shopped and re-fuelled and
it felt like some 3 hours had gone by since we left the pitch and we’d only
travelled about 3 miles with about 137 left to go. Knackered already we traversed on towards
Saumur. We decided to ignore the paeage
as it was a 30 mile longer journey but that meant going through small towns in
the pouring rain. It was my turn to drive.
One really lovely town by a river we came face to face with
a huge tractor and a lorry following – I inched over to the right as far as I
could and stopped to let them go by. I
didn’t know that I had gone up on the kerb and as I moved off there was this
horrendous crunching noise. We didn’t
stop – but I would rather have liked to have known if we’d left anything
behind. I might be the scaredy-cat
passenger but I have to admit that I’m the only one who’se actually crunched
anything.
Well to say I’ll pleut was a gross understatement – at one
point we even thought about stopping on an aire for the night – it was awful,
even in our big truck we were worried about aqua-planing so it was a very slow
journey, but we got there in the end.
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